Total Warrior Was Awarded The Victoria Cross TWICE – An Incredible Human Being
Since its inception, the VC has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355 men. And no, there is not a typing error in that sentence. Three…
Battle Of Saipan Suicides: The Largest Banzai Charge of the Entire War, 4000 Japanese Troops
War inevitably equals mass casualties, whether numbering in the dozens or the hundreds, or the hundreds of thousands – this a truth that has accompanied…
The Bunker of the “Beast of Auschwitz” Found in a Convent 70 Years After WWII
Buried thirty feet underneath the ground, in the basement of an old convent in southern Poland, is a room which used to be the secret…
Sex Outside of Marriage: Lebensborn, How Hitler Planned a Master Race
Most of the smaller children were taken away from their parents before they were old enough to comprehend what was even happening. The Third Reich…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Seven Strange Looking German Armored Cars of WW2
During the Second World War, the Germans made extensive use of military vehicles to master a new form of warfare, in which the combustion engine…