Beetle Bailey & The Real Sgt. Snorkel
Griffin solemnly explained her father never realized he was the inspiration for the character that became Sgt. Snorkel. A rather portly and occasionally grouchy Sgt.…
Josef Mengele- The Angel of Death
Pregnant women did not escape his loathsome scrutiny. They were like chattel, and once they had served their purpose, they were sent to the gas…
Handheld For Victory-10 Infantry Weapons of WW2
During World War II, the US produced more than 1.5 million Thompson submachine guns. The Second World War was the largest, most destructive and bloodiest…
Massive Jagdtigers Were Almost Invincible On The Battlefield: The Problem Was Getting Them There
Throughout the Second World War, Hitler had had an almost myopic preoccupation – some might say obsession – with trying to win the war by…
Commandant of Auschwitz, Was an Affectionate Dad Hugged & Kissed His Kids Before Going to Work
“When in the summer of 1941, Hitler gave me the order to prepare installations at Auschwitz where mass exterminations could take place, and personally to…
An Artist Who Became The USSR’s Most Lethal Sniper Dispatched Over 500 Germans
Usually artists are associated with pacifism and anti-war sentiments. There are, of course, always exceptions to such stereotypes – Adolf Hitler is probably the most…
Hitler’s Plans for a New World Order After His Victory in WW2
The Man in the High Castle is a popular Amazon TV series based on the novels bearing the same name by Philip K. Dick. In…
The Concentration Camp in Italy – Servigliano Camp 59
Although the concentration camps in Germany are well documented, the camps in Italy are not so well known. One reason for this is that although…
Tarawa Veteran Sees Picture of The Man Who Saved His Life 70 Years Ago
“Semper Fidelis” Men were floating in the water, some wounded and screaming, others already dead. Scanning the carnage, Dean Ladd wondered how long his luck…
How an Outdated Biplane, Took Out the Gigantic Battleship Bismarck
The Second World War was a period of greatly accelerated development in the field of aviation: this was the first war in which jet fighters…
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…