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Werner Goering, The US Bomber Pilot Whose Name Almost Got Him Assassinated By The FBI

Jay Hemmings

A famous quote from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice states that “the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.” In…

Mystery of HMAS Sydney, Sunk in WW2 & the Strange Body That Washed Up On Christmas Island

Jay Hemmings

Of the many naval encounters between the Allies and the Axis forces in World War II, the sea battle between the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran…

The British Civilian Gas Mask: Full of Chemicals As Dangerous As The Gas it Was Protecting You From

Jay Hemmings

Warfare, throughout the ages, has prompted and necessitated the rapid expansion of industry, technology, and innovation in various kingdoms and nations. Sometimes the hastily-developed technology…

The Brave Women of the Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain was the first major all-aircraft campaign of World War II. It was marked with several episodes of intense aerial combats. Swarms…

Top Bombers & Pilots of WW2

Morgan Deane

The intense fighting of World War II produced many missions. Many pilots received a break after 25 missions, but others pilots flew more. This sometimes…

9 American Cold War Tanks

Andrew Knighton

The Second World War solidified the position of tanks as a vital tool in the modern military arsenal. And so, over the course the Cold…

List of Danish Nazis Made Available Online

In the years following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, citizens of those countries were able to go through many of the…

In The Dark Shadows Of History – Nightmare At The Rapido

January 20-22, 1944 It was the dead of winter in January of 1944. In the space of 48 hours, the 36th Division would lose over…

“Sawn-Off Lockie” The Most Successful British Pilot During the Battle of Britain

Eric Stanley Lock might have been called “Sawn-Off Lockie” due to his rather petite stature, but he was more than just a short airman from…

Fuel Tanks Empty, He Engaged The German, Shot Him Down & Somehow He Managed To Get Back to Base

When, on a fateful night, Jack Adams saw an aircraft belonging to the enemy, he had no idea that his choice to go after it…

Landed ‘Blind’: Shots Devastated the Hurricane’s Perspex Canopy, Throwing Splinters of Perspex Into His Eyes

His flying career reached its end just three years after he joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF). But the events surrounding his fate, and…

How German Intelligence Agents Managed To Unearth A Ton Of Information From POWs

Jay Hemmings

Alexander Jefferson of the United States Army Air Forces was flying a P-51 Mustang over Toulouse, France, in August 1944. It was by no means…