Firing The .50 Cal From a Sherman Tank: How Often Was This Actually Done?
From the very first moment that the earliest tanks rolled onto the battlefield in the First World War, they forever changed the way ground battles…
This German Officer Gave His Life In A Minefield To Save An American Soldier
The story of Friedrich Lengfeld is one which is not so common in history. Occasionally we hear of soldiers who throw their bodies into the arms…
Death is Not Defeat: Mass Suicides in Nazi Germany in 1945
On April 30, 1945, while in his Führerbunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler shot himself. Around the same time, about a thousand residents of the German…
Pilot Rammed an Italian Bomber Then Arrested the Surviving Crew With Just His Pistol
On May 22nd, 1939, fascist Italy signed a treaty called “The Pact of Steel” with Nazi Germany. This promoted stronger ties between the two countries,…
The Unsolved Mystery of Nanjing Battalion, Did 3,000 Chinese Troops Really Disappear in 1939?
The Second Sino-Japanese war was brutal, with Japan ravaging China. Many lives were lost on both sides, but the strangest loss was that of the…
Werner Goering, The US Bomber Pilot Whose Name Almost Got Him Assassinated By The FBI
A famous quote from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice states that “the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.” In…
Mystery of HMAS Sydney, Sunk in WW2 & the Strange Body That Washed Up On Christmas Island
Of the many naval encounters between the Allies and the Axis forces in World War II, the sea battle between the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran…
The British Civilian Gas Mask: Full of Chemicals As Dangerous As The Gas it Was Protecting You From
Warfare, throughout the ages, has prompted and necessitated the rapid expansion of industry, technology, and innovation in various kingdoms and nations. Sometimes the hastily-developed technology…
The Brave Women of the Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major all-aircraft campaign of World War II. It was marked with several episodes of intense aerial combats. Swarms…
Top Bombers & Pilots of WW2
The intense fighting of World War II produced many missions. Many pilots received a break after 25 missions, but others pilots flew more. This sometimes…
List of Danish Nazis Made Available Online
In the years following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, citizens of those countries were able to go through many of the…
In The Dark Shadows Of History – Nightmare At The Rapido
January 20-22, 1944 It was the dead of winter in January of 1944. In the space of 48 hours, the 36th Division would lose over…