WWII Snipers & The Rifles They Used To Rack Up Huge Scores
While snipers were widely deployed by most of the various nations involved in the Second World War, no army really developed or produced a rifle…
Massive Jagdtigers Were Almost Invincible On The Battlefield: The Problem Was Getting Them There
Throughout the Second World War, Hitler had had an almost myopic preoccupation – some might say obsession – with trying to win the war by…
The 16-Year-Old WWI Officer Who Led His Men Over The Top, Lost A Leg, Still Insisted On Returning To Fight
It is a well-documented fact that many underage boys, some as young as 13, fought in the trenches of the First World War. Usually, these…
An Artist Who Became The USSR’s Most Lethal Sniper Dispatched Over 500 Germans
Usually artists are associated with pacifism and anti-war sentiments. There are, of course, always exceptions to such stereotypes – Adolf Hitler is probably the most…
The Battle Of Leipzig – The Largest Battle On European Soil Prior To WWI
The Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century were, in many ways, a precursor to the World Wars of the 20th century that would rock first…
How an Outdated Biplane, Took Out the Gigantic Battleship Bismarck
The Second World War was a period of greatly accelerated development in the field of aviation: this was the first war in which jet fighters…
Battle Of Saipan Suicides: The Largest Banzai Charge of the Entire War, 4000 Japanese Troops
War inevitably equals mass casualties, whether numbering in the dozens or the hundreds, or the hundreds of thousands – this a truth that has accompanied…
It Was Brutal: Press Ganging, Keelhauling & Flogging in The Royal Navy
Each blow of the cat would open up numerous wounds, enough of which could prove fatal, on the unfortunate sailor’s back. The British Royal Navy…
America’s Forgotten WWI Hero Who Beat the Germans Bare Handed
With just his fists and his knife, he managed to fend them off, fighting with such fury that the Germans eventually retreated. While the United…
A Savage & Brutal Affair. Hand-To-Hand Combat in WW1
In trench combat, any encounter you had with an enemy soldier was likely to be a life-or-death one. The First World War is notorious for…
The Marine The Viet Cong Couldn’t Break He Was Last Seen On a Jungle Trail in November 1967
Of all the bad things that could happen to an American soldier during the Vietnam War, becoming a prisoner of war in the hands of…
The Amazing Irish Kamikaze Tank Buster Took Out A King Tiger By Ramming
British officers who commanded tanks during WW2 were often told that naval tactics could be used effectively by tanks. However, this advice was not often…