Ike returned to Normandy with Walter Cronkite 20 years after D-Day
“Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many…
Amputation Without any Surgical Tools: Amazing Story of a Daring Escape From German Troops
Snow blindness, frostbite, gangrene, and amputation without any surgical tools. These are all things that can kill a person, and adding in WWII as well…
A Five-Foot Finnish Farmer The Deadliest Sniper In History
The White Death became Finland’s (and, arguably, the world’s) most prolific and famous sniper. During the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, he achieved an estimated 500…
Color Footage of Normandy: More Visceral Than Any Hollywood Film
The Allied landing at Normandy in June 1944 was the most ambitious and massive amphibious invasion ever staged. Hundreds of thousands of men from countries…
‘Star Trek’ Star James Doohan Survived Six Bullet Wounds During the Allied Landings on D-Day
James Doohan saw action during World War II and in outer space. His exploits inspired many to become an engineer, and one individual even followed…
Leonard A. Funk: U.S. paratrooper who took out 40 Germans in 60 seconds
First Sergeant, Leonard A. Funk, despite his small stature, joined the paratroopers of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army and went on…
“A Fight For Love And Glory…” How The U.S. And France Came Together In Casablanca
Casablanca became famous due to a certain black and white movie bearing its name. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, the film used the Moroccan…
Kurt Gerstein – SS Officer who Tried to Stop the Holocaust
The policy of the Third Reich towards the Jews was contained in the expression “Final Solution.” This euphemism really meant the mass annihilation of the…
The Canadian Mechanic Who Sealed off the Falaise Pocket & Trapped over 50,000 Germans
To win a war one country needs a huge quantity of tanks, planes and guns and a powerful industry to back it all up. It…
Clearing up the battlefields of WWII
Europe, 1945: cities reduced to rubble, millions of people displaced, and landscapes colored with the rusted shells of destroyed tanks and weaponry, reminding everyone that…
Revealed – Italian Resistance, SOE, Betrayed: How Allied High Command Abandoned Italian ‘Reds’ Because of Pending Cold War
When endeavoring to tell a story that concerns behind-the-lines raids, partisan armies, and epic journeys deep into enemy territory, one invariably bumps up against the…
A Formidable Foe: German Panther Tank
The German Panther tank used in World War II was easily one of the most dreaded machines the Allies encountered on the European battlefields.…