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The Kamikaze Pilot Who Took His Wife With Him On His Last Flight

Ian Harvey

Even though World War Two had come to an end, the story of a Japanese couple who met their death in a deliberate kamikaze suicide…

US Navy Sailors Who Died at Pearl Harbor Identified After 75 Years

Ian Harvey

The remains of five US Navy sailors who died in the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor were identified this year, more than 75 years after their ship…

Hell’s Highway – 101st Airborne Market Garden Battles South of Veghel (Part 2)

Operation Market Garden, it is September 24th 1944 and we are in the 6th day of the ill-fated operation. Earlier that day the Germans tried…

Top Facts About The Los Angeles WWII Zoot Suit Racial Attacks

David Herold

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

Ian Harvey

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

David Herold

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

Damian Lucjan

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

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…