A Country for a Company – The 1954 US Backed Guatemalan Coup To Support United Fruit Company
The United Fruit Company (UFC) was once so powerful that the US government destroyed democracy in a country for it. It started in 1931 when…
You Think You Know Your Uniforms – Check to See if You Do! 50 Amazing Images of WWII Uniforms
A Military uniform is the standardized dress worn by members of the armed forces and paramilitaries of various nations. Military dress and military styles have…
Did You Know? Poland’s Boy Scouting Association formed a resistance army in WWII & fought in the Warsaw Uprising, assassinated SS officials & liberated a concentration camp
Gray Ranks” was a codename for the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association during World War II. The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted…
Escape From Sobibor – The first of this group triggered the mines, were wounded and killed, but the others who crossed the area…
The Nazi extermination camp, Sobibór, was located in the modern borders of Poland, in a region which was named Lublin during the German occupation. It…
Blisteringly sexy, she killed Nazis with her bare hands and had a 5 million-franc bounty on her head
The books and moments of history are filled with memorable names, courageous figures, and moments of sheer ingenuity. Yet not all names are as well…
Star Trek star shot two snipers on D-Day and was shot seven times in WWII
He saw action during WWII and in outer space. His exploits inspired many to enter the engineering profession, while one followed him to the moon.…
Herman Goering’s Catalogue of Stolen Masterpieces Published
The right hand man of Adolf Hitler Herman Goering kept a very detailed catalogue of the stolen art masterpieces confiscated from the occupied Europe. For…
67 Year Old Man Have Been The Oldest Soldier of the First World War – He Was Killed
100 years after World War One and a story of the oldest soldier to fight in the war has emerged. Thousands of young, middle aged and…
Mel Gibson To Direct Second World War Drama: Hacksaw Ridge
Mel Gibson was photographed overlooking the principal photography for his upcoming creative venture; a Second World War drama called Hacksaw Ridge. It has been a…
A new Australia: The ANZAC Legend At Gallipoli
‘From 1915 the word ANZACs was applied to military formations – at first ANZAC meant a man who had served on Gallipoli, and later acquired…
Could the Nazis have conquered the United States?
Considering some of the different outcomes that could have happened during World War Two, historians and researchers have looked closely at how and what would…
Edward A. Carter, Jr. received the Medal of Honor for killing six soldiers & using the surviving two as a bodysheild.
Edward Allen Carter Junior was born on May 26th, 1916 in Los Angeles, California. Carter had a unique upbringing. His father was an African-American missionary,…