The Island Everyone Wanted – Malta Was the Most Bombed Place on Earth
Malta is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea, consisting of 95 square miles strategically located between Italy and Libya. It became a British colony…
The 19-Year-Old Marine Single-Handedly Evacuated 45 Casualties, He Never Made it Home
As the Battle of Saipan approached its end, a heavy cloud of defeat loomed over the Japanese forces. Casualties were rapidly mounting across the island…
Charles Lightoller Stayed Aboard The Titanic Until The End. In WW2 He Volunteered to Help Evacuate Over 120 Men from Dunkirk
The sinking of the Titanic is an infamous event in history. Most people know about the iceberg and the fact that there were too few…
The Day USS Belknap Collided with the Aircraft Carrier USS John F. Kennedy
The United States has an impressive inventory of military ships, planes and vehicles. In fact, it just might be the envy of the world because…
A Brief History of the Amber Room – Does Anyone Know Where it Is?
Formed from several panels of the brilliantly translucent amber and its splendor amplified by gold leaf, mirrors, gemstones, and candlelight, the Amber Room was an…
Does Hitler Have Any Living Relatives? The 1945 Extinction Agreement of Adolf Hitler’s Family Tree
The Hitler bloodline is a highly convoluted one. It has taken historians a lot of digging to unearth authentic and generally acceptable information regarding Adolf…
Sails on Viking Longships – Were They Really Red & White?
It’s a common enough scene from movies and TV shows: a seaside village on the English coast, sometime in the Dark Ages. Peasants, monks and…
Coffee & War The Origins of the Americano
The Origins of the Americano Have you ever wondered why every Italian style coffee house now sells something they call an Americano? For most people,…
Mauthausen Survivor, Immigrant & US Army Volunteer Denied the Medal of Honor for 55 Years
In 2005, President George W. Bush placed the Medal of Honor around the neck of a hero. That hero did not earn that medal during…
The Highest Soviet Hotel That Survived the Nazis, But Did Not Survive the Fire
For sixty years, the highest mountain hotel of the USSR and Russia was located on the southeast slope of Mount Elbrus at an altitude of…
The True Story That Inspired The Movie Black Hawk Down (With the Super 6-1 Footage)
Many people have seen the blockbuster action flick Black Hawk Down. Mixed in among all the Hollywood action and big movie stars is a tale…
An Examination of Cree Warfare
The lack of written sources for many Native Americans limits our study of their history. The only ones we do have mainly come from Europeans,…