Grave Robbers Make Life Difficult for Volunteer Group Giving WW2 Soldiers Proper Burials
Some of the bloodiest battles at the end of WWII were fought between the German and Russian forces within the borders of Latvia. In 1944…
How Prize Thoroughbred Horses Were Rescued After Germany’s Surrender in WWII
In the last days of World War II, a secret operation was approved by General George Patton to rescue 500 of Europe’s finest thoroughbred horses.…
John Glenn, the Astronaut and Senator Who Flew Combat Missions in Korea and World War Two
John Glenn, born July 18th, 1921, is currently the oldest living former U.S. senator. Before his 25-year career in the Senate (1974-1999), however, he earned…
Bad Leadership, Old Tactics, and Modern Hardware Cause Carnage on the Eastern Front in the First World War
The Brusilov offensive was Russia’s greatest military triumph of World War One, but also the scene of one of that nation’s most misguided and disastrous…
Band of Brothers: Major Richard “Dick” Winters Documentary “Hang Tough”
This documentary narrates a story about the Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument, which is in Normandy, France in 2012. Richard was the leader of the…
Operation Iceberg – The Largest Amphibious Invasion In The Pacific, And The Fight For Okinawa
In Spring 1945, Allied forces were advancing on Japan, and Allied planes were able to bombard her cities. Okinawa, a 70-mile long island 350 miles from…
After 39 Soviet Commandos Took Hill 3234 In Afghanistan, Not Even Hundreds Of Mujahedeen Could Dislodge Them
The Soviet-Afghan War, or the “Soviet Vietnam” as some political analysts called it, was one of the key points in which the decaying superpower came…
The Tsar Bomba, The Biggest Bomb The World Has Ever Seen
Every aspect of the phrase, ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ applies to the Tsar Bomba. The weapon was the Soviet Union’s rebuttal to the United States…
Church of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard’s War Against the Sea… And Mexico
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (often referred to as “L. Ron Hubbard” or simply as “LRH”) was the controversial founder of an even more controversial religion –…
The WW2 Airborne Invasion Of Crete Was The Reason Hitler Abandoned Parachute Assaults For Good
Crete might be an idyllic tourist island now, but during a 12-day period in May 1941 a mixed force of British, Australian, New Zealand and…
When Four Prisoners Escaped From Auschwitz In The Commander’s Car
In 1942, four Polish prisoners at Auschwitz had had enough. They wanted to escape, but if they did (regardless of whether or not they succeeded),…
Mayaguez Incident, The Last Battle of the Vietnam War, 3 Marines Were Left Behind And Executed
When a violent Khmer Rouge regime under the leadership of Pol Pot overthrew the Khmer Republic government, backed by the US, Cambodia was in the…