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Beautiful Pics Of A Rare Tu-128 – The Largest & Heaviest Fighter Ever In Service

The Tupolev Tu-28, a Soviet long-range interceptor from the 1960s, had the NATO reporting name Fiddler. At the time, it was the largest and heaviest…

Flying Tigers – P-40 Tomahawk – Amazing Color Pictures From WWII

When people think of America’s involvement in WWII, they remember the conflict in Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific, but they also fought the Japanese…

7 Conflicts That Happened After the Fall of USSR

Nikola Budanovic

The Soviet Union officially ceased to exist on December 26, 1991, 74 years after its inception in 1917. The fall of the Union left the…

U-571: Fiction To The Point of Insult?

Colin Fraser

For fans of 20th-century war-action maritime films, the 2000 picture U-571 should be a good time. Make some popcorn, go ahead. It even won an…

This Revisionist Neo-Nazi Lobby Shaped the Image of Waffen-SS After the War

From the end of the Second World War to this day, the way the public perceives the role of the infamous Waffen-SS, the armed wing…

Kursk – The Biggest Tank Battle Ever (Pictures)

The Battle of Kursk was a World War II engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union…

10 Myths about the Nazis

Many myths have grown up around the infamous Nazi Party which led Germany into war, and plunged the world into global conflict. Some of these…

The Horror Of Auschwitz – Looking Closely, We Can Find Stories Which We Have Not Heard Before

Sarah Cooper

Auschwitz today is synonymous with the Holocaust; it has become an overarching symbol of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime during the Second World…

Massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane: The Day The SS Wiped Out An Entire French Village

On December 9, 2014, a German court in Cologne dropped the multiple charges of murder and accessory to murder against an 88-year-old man named Werner…

“Black Death” – Henry Johnson – America’s First World War Hero

Colin Fraser

Henry Johnson was a World War I soldier who singlehandedly beat back a German assault while critically wounded. He was a great American hero and…

7 Funny Tanks That Helped Win D-Day

The landings in Normandy demanded new sorts of hybrid tanks that were capable of fulfilling engineer tasks in order to provide maximum support to the…

This Rogue Nazi General Committed High Treason To Stop The Reign of Terror in Croatia

Many heroes’ names line the pages of WWII history. Many of these men and women were not recognized and known to the public during their lifetimes…