America’s Forgotten WWI Hero Who Beat the Germans Bare Handed
With just his fists and his knife, he managed to fend them off, fighting with such fury that the Germans eventually retreated. While the United…
A Savage & Brutal Affair. Hand-To-Hand Combat in WW1
In trench combat, any encounter you had with an enemy soldier was likely to be a life-or-death one. The First World War is notorious for…
Against all Odds-The US Rangers & Their Heroic Assault on Pointe Du Hoc
The Assault on Pointe Du Hoc was one of the most harrowing (and costly) missions in U.S. Army Ranger history. Knowing their mission was crucial…
Amazonian Warriors of the Ancient Worlds
Women warriors of the ancient world Warfare has traditionally been a man’s world. The reasons for this varies historically and culturally but, regardless of time…
Major-General Gubbins-The Man who Made Dirty Warfare a Passion.
During the Second World War, Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) reinvented the art of covert warfare. The organization recruited, trained, and equipped both secret agents…
Does Size Really Matter? – The Big Guns of WW1
The Big Guns-1914 to 1918 World War One was the first industrialized war that was on a truly global scale. With mass production and ever…
General Orde Wingate: Brilliant Eccentric
The British armed forces in WWII were famous for a number of reasons: innovation, unreal stubbornness in defense, and much else. They were also known…
To Do My Duty. The Scout Master & Hitler’s Nuclear Program
In the early twentieth century, a British man named Baden Powell founded the Boy Scout Movement. From this humble organization, Scouting spread across the globe.…
The Tupolev Tu-128: The Largest Fighter Aircraft to Ever be in Service
In the early decades of the Cold War, threats of potential nuclear air attacks were familiar on both sides of the tension. Both the Soviet…
The Right Decision? Heroic End Of French Fleet – Scuttled 77 Ships To Avoid Capture By Nazi Germany
It was exactly 4:00 AM on November 27, 1942. A thick veil of darkness was lingering over the skies of Toulon, but the city’s inhabitants were…
Tokyo Mose & the Ear Medal – The Irreverent Antidote to Tokyo Rose
Iva Toguri, a Japanese woman born in the US, became well-known during World War II as “Tokyo Rose,” one of the hosts of The Zero…
Hanbury Crater: 4000 Tons of Bombs, Million Rounds & Britain’s biggest WWII Explosion
On November 27, 1944, at 11:11 AM the quiet English countryside was rocked by one of the most deadly explosions to occur to occur during…