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Ten of the Worst Concentration Camps in WW2: A List of Famous Concentration Camps and the # of Dead

In 1933, the first Nazi concentration camp was built in Dachau, Germany to imprison dissidents. Heinrich Himmler took over in 1934 and start arresting “racially undesirable…

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

Joris Nieuwint

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…

The Strangest, Funniest, Eccentric and Odd Habits Of Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and FDR

Admit it, finding little-known funny, eccentric and odd habits, obsessions and facts about men who carved their places in history is both amusing and interesting.…

Medal of Honor – John R. Fox sacrificed himself by deliberately calling an artillery strike on his own position

John Robert Fox was an American soldier who was killed in action when he deliberately called artillery fire on his own position after his position…

Audie Murphy – The US Most Decorated Soldier – Plays Himself In To Hell And Back

One of the most highly decorated American soldier of World War II, Audie Leon Murphy, was born on the 20th June 1925.  His life story…

Hell in the Pacific (2001) – Powerful, Heart-Rending, Intimate Look At The Horror Of The Pacific In WW2 (Watch)

The story of the battles in the Pacific between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of…

These Two Pilots Were Off-Duty When The Japanese Struck At Pearl Harbor – They Leaped Into Action And Fought Back

The nuances of military history are often lost to the passage of time, as are the men who could give first-hand accounts.  As much as…

WWII Catalina aircraft wreckage confirmed

Official confirmation issued by the Royal Australian Air Force confirms that the wreckage discovered in the waters near Cairns belong to Number 11 Squadron’s Catalina…

The Story of a Dog Rescue From the First World War

German UC-1-class World War I submarine Saving a helpless dog from a certain death? Certainly over a million YouTube hits on this topic in 2015,…

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: five reasons why President Truman made the right decision

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was apocalyptically awful. 70 years ago today, an estimated 90,000 people were immediately killed when Little Boy detonated 1,950ft…