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The Tragedy of Exercise Tiger: A Training Mission That Left More GIs Dead Than Utah Beach

Exercise Tiger is one of Britain’s most harrowing wartime secrets. It involved the slaughter of young American soldiers on the shores of a Devon beach. At…

The Tragedy of Lieutenant General Lesley McNair: The Highest Ranking US Soldier Killed in WWII

Lieutenant General Lesley McNair never had the historical reputation he deserved. He never got to sit down in a comfortable chair, brandy at his elbow,…

Lt. Gen Wainwright, Prisoner Of War, Who Was Awarded the Medal of Honor in WW2

Being captured by the Japanese during the early days of WWII meant facing years of grueling conditions, torture, and starvation.  Also, many were cut off…

Fact or Fiction: Germany Built Wooden Airfields to Fool the Allies, So They Bombed It With Wooden Bombs

This story has been told in many ways, where locations of where the airfield was and how it was bombed being different but the gist…

In World War Two, The Germans Had Big Plans – Here Are Five Which Did Not Succeed

Throughout WWII, Adolf Hitler’s political ambitions interfered with his plans. Several high-profile military operations were canceled, sometimes against the advice of his commanders. Operation Sealion…

Piggyback Hero – by Ralph Kinney Bennett

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We present this guest blog by author Ralph Kinney Bennett  In 2003 they laid the remains of Glenn Rojohn to rest in the Peace Lutheran Cemetery in…

Fort Drum, The Unsinkable Concrete ‘Battleship’ of Manila Bay

Jack Beckett

Anyone who pays a visit to Manila Bay will not easily forget the enchanting sight of the ruined concrete fort that looks as if it…

Amazing Pilot Saved His Wingman, Pushed His Damaged Phantom By Its Tail Hook Out Of Vietnam

Of the 132 missions Bob Pardo flew in Vietnam with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, the most significant is that of March 10, 1967, when…

Some Of The Worst Japanese Massacres of WW2

The Japanese Army during World War II committed many crimes against humanity that were ordered by the government and high command. In the Japanese equivalent…

The Youngest Soldier In WWI Was A Serbian Boy, Aged 8

Momčilo Gavrić was the youngest soldier in the First World War. He was born in May 1st, in 1906 in a village near the town of Loznica in…

Ticking Time Bomb: The Mines At Messines, Over 1 Million Tons of Explosives, 20 Detonated, 5 Remain, Waiting

Jack Beckett

In 1917, the world was engulfed in war. For the first time, the economics of industry had been applied to warfare on a huge scale.…

After 39 Soviet Commandos Took Hill 3234 In Afghanistan, Not Even Hundreds Of Mujahedeen Could Dislodge Them

Nikola Budanovic

The Soviet-Afghan War, or the “Soviet Vietnam” as some political analysts called it, was one of the key points in which the decaying superpower came…