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Amiens, 1918 – The WW1 Battle In France Which Sealed Germany’s Coming Defeat

The Battle of Amiens started nearly 100 years ago in Picardy, France, in 1918. The major combat lasted until August 12th and was a success…

Operation Linebacker II – The Massive Bombing Campaign That Brought Peace In Vietnam

Operation Linebacker II was the ultimate oxymoron and a repetition of a favoured American tactic for bringing about peace on an Asian battlefield. Just like…

Jimmy Doolittle Led The First Mission To Bomb Japan – Against All Odds

Jeff Edwards

Often, war is no different than your average street fight regardless of how crude that might seem. When a man is punched in the nose,…

Was It Really A War Crime – Thousands of Germans Died in American POW Camps In 1945

Colin Fraser

For all but fringe debaters on the subject, the book is closed. The horror and death caused by maltreatment or murder in German, Japanese and…

Military Technologies Invented In WWI That We Still Use Today

The evolution of military technology is an ongoing process, and breakthroughs in new weapons and defensive systems make the news every year. However, many staples…

Nancy Wake, in WWII – Freedom Fighter, Allied Agent and The Gestapo’s Most Wanted

The books and moments of history are filled with memorable names, courageous figures, and moments of sheer ingenuity. Yet not all names are as well…

A Place of Tension Between Nations – The Korean Demilitarized Zone

Lincoln Riddle

For most of the world, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) serves as a reminder of the Korean War, a war that was fought in the…

How Extraterrestrials Got Japanese-Americans Interned in 1942

Many believe that the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the direct result of Pearl Harbor. While true, there were two other factors involved –…

As A Bitter Joke, Adolf Hitler Was Nominated For The Nobel Peace Prize in 1939

Your daily dose of random and strange. Adolf Hitler was once nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize has a long history, dating back to…

The WW2 Tests That Produced Napalm – The United States’ Mock WWII German & Japanese Villages

Holly Godbey

It’s well known that the U.S. Army built a myriad of projects in the southwestern deserts of the States to test various new kinds of…

William Hitler, Nephew of Adolf, Joined the US Navy to Fight The Nazis in WW2

Conspiracy theorists claim that a certain Hitler survived WWII, fled to Argentina or Brazil, and lived to a ripe old age. What utter nonsense. He…

Sinking the Tirpitz, Sister to the Bismarck and the Heaviest European Battleship Ever

Colin Fraser

The story of the World War II German battleship Bismarck is legendary. The massive warship was destroyed by British ships and planes and then scuttled…