Top Facts About The Los Angeles WWII Zoot Suit Racial Attacks
In 1943, when the United States was involved in World War II the country was rocked on the home front. Thousands of Mexicans had migrated…
5 Facts: 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…
Underwater Duels in WW2 – The Origins of the Powerful Soviet Submarine Fleet
AS WWII began, the USSR submarine fleet was the biggest in the world. It had twice the submarines as the U.S. and nearly four times…
The Battle of Stalingrad: The Battle that Broke Hitler
It was at the battle of Stalingrad that Hitler met his match, and was dealt a decisive blow, from which he couldn’t recover. The battle was a…
MoH: Despite Serious Wounds, Paul Bolden Took Out 35 German SS Troops In The Bulge
To be clear, the number would have only been 20 had the German SS taken Bolden up on his act of mercy. For after gunning…
Cutting Off Nazi Oil Production – The Incredibly Costly Ploiesti Mission – Pictures
In the midst of WW2, on August 1, 1943, the Ploiesti Oil Raid took place over Romania. It was a USAAF Operation with the codename “Tidal…
Action T4 – Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Programme That Murdered The Disabled and The Mentally Ill
In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a decree that enabled Nazi Germany to forcefully euthanize patients who they deemed were “unworthy of life”. After the…
Tommy Prince Was So Quiet, Sometimes Instead Of Killing Germans He Would Steal Their Shoes
Tommy Prince was born on October 15th, 1915, in Scanterbury Manitoba Canada in a family of eleven siblings. He left school at an early age…
10 Facts – A Place of Tension Between Nations – The Korean Demilitarized Zone
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…
The Awesome Power of the Ancient Roman Navy Was So Great, It Even Won Sieges
Most people’s image of a siege is of a conflict fought entirely on land. But in the ancient era, when most of the great cities…
The American CIA Attempted to Assassinate Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Using a Scuba-Diving Suit
The U.S. National Security Archive has published information that the CIA tried to assassinate Fidel Castro using a diving suit contaminated with Madura foot fungus…
The Mysterious Death of the Legendary Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
While the Battle of Chancellorsville was Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory, it was the beginning of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s ultimate defeat. On May 2, 1863, Confederate…