Refused To Abandon A Dying Comrade. Pulled The Pins From 2 Grenades & Calmly Awaited The Viet Cong, They Found Their Bodies The Next Day
Refusing to leave his mortally wounded comrade as the enemy approached, Australian Warrant Officer Kevin Wheatley pulled the pin on two grenades and waited for…
The Greatest German General No One Has Heard Of – Lieutenant General Of Armored Troops Herman Balck
Herman Balck might be one of the most effective German Generals, whose actions are largely forgotten today. He came from a military family, his father,…
A Nightmarish Place – The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp
The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp lies just North of Linz, in Austria. It was one of the first large concentration camps created in Nazi Germany and…
The Weapons They Carried: 10 WWII Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to the Fight
Let’s take a look at the top 10 WWII Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard…
Amazing story: WWII ghost B-17 completed its mission, then landed – no one was on board
A B-17 Flying Fortress landed perfectly at an RAF airbase and completes the full landing pattern as well. The bomber comes to a full stop;…
C-17 Globemaster, A-10, C-130, And US Paratroopers in Action – This is What Modern “D-Day” Looks Like (Watch)
One of the most pivotal and game-changing moments in the Second World War came on the 6th of June, 1944. It was a date that…
The Gigantic 180 Meter Long US Army Land Trains Of The 1950s
The Texan company, LeTourneau, was instructed to design these huge land trains in the 1950s by the US Government. The United States Army got three…
Was Eva Braun a Naive Bystander or Proactive Participant in Nazi Actions?
In her 2011 book, Eva Braun: Life with Hitler, author Heike G. Gortemaker paints a portrait of an Eva that was more than the often…
Sergeant York – Captured 132 German Soldiers Pretty Much Single Handed In WWI – Battle Scene
Sergeant Alvin York was seemingly born to a hardscrabble existence and anonymity in death, but World War One changed that forever. The story of York is…
The First North Korean Pilot To Defect WITH His MiG-15
It was September 1953, the war in Korea had ended almost two months previously, the ceasefire had been signed and adhered to by both sides.…
Abandoned; WW2 Luftwaffe German Military Airbase
The German airfield Schönwalde was built in 1934 by the German Ministry of Aviation as a base for the German Air Force. They did this at…
When Ancient Gods Collide: Attila the Hun and Flavius Aetius
The Roman Empire seemed to be on the verge of an unalterable collapse at the beginning of the fifth century AD. It had become unable…