Last Seen Punching With One Hand And His Trench Knife In The Other – They Found His Body Surrounded By 40 Dead Koreans
Often in war it is difficult to the measure the impact of one man, but when that man is making his last stand on Heartbreak…
Things We Need To Know About The Mutual Assured Destruction
As a doctrine of national security and military strategy, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) involves the full-scale usage of weapons of mass destruction by at least two opposing…
Le Paradis – Where the SS Murdered 97 British Prisoners on May 27th 1940
In 1940, members of the British military were slaughtered – after they had surrendered to German forces. Two survived, but no one believed their story.…
The Siege of Malta Part 3 – Waiting For The Relief Forces and The Fall of St Elmo
Continues from Malta – The Greatest Siege in History Part 2- Defending St Elmo from the Ottomans The garrison of Fort St Elmo now faced…
A Reminder of Sacrifices Made: 25 Images Of Bombers That Didn’t Make It Home
The strategic bombing campaign during WWII cost the lives of roughly 160,000 Allied airmen and 33,700 planes in the European theater alone. We have collected…
Victoria Cross: He Sucked the Bullet Out of His Wound & Carried On to Storm a German Dugout & Capture 75 Men
At the turn of the 20th century, Canada did not have much in the way of an army. The joke was that only its parliament…
“Lucky” Yamaguchi: The Man Who Survived Both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombs
Atomic bombs exploded into chaotic destruction just two times in history: first on August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima and again on August 9 of that…
Flying the Me 262 – The First Operational Jet Fighter
The First Fighter Planes When the First World War began, the airplane was still a new invention. Its potential as a military vehicle had not…
How Caesar Defeated 250,000 Gaulish Warriors Coming At Them From Two Sides With Only 60,000 Legionnaires
Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars had been raging for over five years when his legions faced their greatest test at the double siege of Alesia, a…
To Stop A Japanese Banzai Charge This Soldier Used His Rifle Like A Baseball Bat
In the movies, we will see the scene replayed where the wounded soldier begs his comrades to leave him rather than risk their lives. Often…
The Countess of Romanones, María Aline Griffith, “The Countess Spy” Dies” at 94
The Countess of Romanones, mother of three and grandmother of thirteen, María Aline Griffith, passed away in December of 2017. Normally, this would just be a byline…
David McCallum – Official Host of the 2018 Normandie-World War II International Film Festival and Band of Brothers Actors Reunion in Normandy
McCallum Currently Stars in CBS’ NCIS and During His long career has appeared in many movies and TV Shows including: The Great Escape, Man from…