Be Prepared For Warm Beer & Horrid Coffee: A GI’s Guide to Britain During WWII
“The British don’t know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don’t know how to make a good cup of tea. It’s an…
Just Amazing The USS Wasp Wreck Discovered 2.5 Miles Down on the Pacific Seafloor
The wreck lay 2.5 miles down in an area known as an abyssal plane. There is no light and little animal life as well as…
Prostitution, The Black Market & 6000 Trucks – The Red Ball Express
Over 40,000 truck tires were worn out and trucks constantly tipped over due to supplies being overloaded and stacked much too high. The Germans were…
The Most Destructive Bombing Campaign? Actually it Was Tokyo Not Hiroshima
Operation Meetinghouse- For the civilians of Tokyo who were caught in the bombing zone, it was as if hell had come to earth that night.…
From Himmler’s Darling to Dachau Inmate : The Fraudulent Nazi Doctor.
Rascher performed cruel subcooling and altitude tests on his subjects at the Dachau concentration camp where he worked. The “Doctor of Death,” although not Sigmund…
Danger UXB: World War II Bombs Unearthed.
Since 2000, at least 11 bomb disposal technicians have died in the course of their duties in Germany. More than 70 years after the end…
A Most Unmotherly Act: Magda Goebbels,The First Lady of the Third Reich.
It was a morbid place of gray concrete, narrow corridors, iron doors, and cold light. Not a place where anybody could feel comfortable, especially not…
The Cromwell: The Fastest British Tank of WWII
A bulkhead with access holes separated the hull gunner and the driver from the fighting compartment. The tank Cruiser Mk.VIII “Cromwell” is a British medium…
The Accountant Of Auschwitz : The True Story Of The Third Reich
He didn’t dream of being a soldier or a flying ace and was happy with his desk job. Oskar Gröning was 94 years old when…
Hail Mary: NFL Players and Coaches Sacrificed During WWII
In 1992 the movie A League of Their Own about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League opened in theaters around the United States. The film…
The Only VC Recipient of Battle of Britain His Plane in Flames Continued to Chase The Bf 110
His first experience of battle in the skies almost turned out to be his last. Britain’s Royal Air Force Fighter Command (the RAF Fighter Command),…
Yes But Did British Spies REALLY use Semen as Invisible Ink?
It was said that the agents even gave the project the motto of “Every man his own stylo.” The art of spying includes trying to…