Billions of Dollars of Looted WWII Treasure Is Still Hidden
In 1945, while Germany was falling to the Allies, Nazi leaders were busy hiding the treasure they had confiscated over the previous six years. Art…
Scientific Discoveries From Recent Studies Of The Interior Of The USS Arizona
Clearly, the deputy chief and photographer of the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center (SRC) has been touched by the latest images from the sunken…
Henry Mucci’s rescue of POWs from Cabanatuan Prison Camp
On the face of it, it looked to be a rescue mission with little chance of success. Reports had filtered through of the most terrible…
James Bond Director Guy Hamilton Was An Undercover Agent In World War Two
If you are not a movie aficionado, the credit at the end of a 007 movie listing Guy Hamilton as director will not mean much…
Signals intelligence and code-breaking: The importance of the Zimmerman Telegram
January 17 of this year marked the 100 – year anniversary of the most successful intelligence operation of the First World War that wasn’t surpassed…
World War 2: Real life 007 Who Parachuted Behind Enemy Lines Honored by Italy
Richard Mallaby, known to his compatriots as Dick, was an agent with the Special Operations Executive which was a British secret spy network in WW2.…
The Horror of the Lwów Ghetto in WW2
The day was July 26, 1944, when the Polish city of Lwow was finally liberated by the advancing Red Army after fierce clashes with the…
“Soldier With Sad Eyes” Identified as World War I Hero
Lieutenant Frank Roberts, a Welsh soldier who was severely wounded at the First Battle of the Somme, had his image used in a music video…
When A WWII Super Submarine Was Discovered off the Coast of Hawaii
Although they first came to prominence during the First World War, the early U-boats and submarines have subsequently been perfected and improved upon throughout the…
After The Civil War, This Woman Tried To Unite Science and Theology
Following the US Civil War, Graceanna Lewis tried to take her passion for science and make an academic career from it. A self-taught naturalist, she…
100th Anniversary of Mathematician Bill Tutte, Who Helped End WWII
May 14th marked the 100th anniversary of William “Bill” Tutte’s birth. Tutte is considered one of the greatest mathematicians and code breakers of the 20th…
In 1935, A Team Of Nazi Explorers Set Out To Begin A Colony On The Amazon River
Deep within Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, there’s a Nazi grave flanked by a towering cross with a swastika in a cemetery close to the isolated…