Battleship Yamato’s Final Kamikaze Mission
IJN Yamato, a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), was the first battleship of the Yamato class, the largest and most powerful battleship in naval…
Allies Knew About Battle of the Bulge – Why they Ignored Intelligence
On the 16th of December 1944, German tanks roared out of the Ardennes forest and smashed into Allied lines. Germany’s last great offensive of the…
WW2 Motorcycles: 9 Military Motorcycles That Were Used in WW2
Though less powerful and protective than other vehicles used during WW2, motorcycles were widely fielded throughout the conflict. They proved to be useful among messengers…
World War II Fighting Continued Months After Peace Agreement
It’s easy to imagine that once World War II officially ended, the defeated Germans forces were so anxious to get home that they dropped their…
MacArthur/Halsey Masterpiece in the Pacific – Operation Cartwheel
Within the first few months of Japan entering WWII, the country had spread its influence over the Pacific. It had successfully invaded many of the…
Royal Concerns: How The King Protected His Children During WWII
While the life of a royal might be hard for many of us to imagine, we can nevertheless empathize with a father’s desire to protect…
Worst Weapons of WWII: Luckily Some Were Never Used
Desperate times call for desperate measures, but sometimes soldiers were sent into battle with shockingly incompetent weaponry: either inherently seriously flawed, extremely outdated, insufficient for…
Little Known Soviet “Doolittle” Raid on Berlin
Before and during WWII, or “Great Patriotic War” as it is known in the nations that made up the USSR, the Soviets built tens of…
Black Sunday – The Disastrous Ploesti Raid in Photos and Video
Officially known as Operation Tidal Wave, the Ploesti Raid occurred on 1 August 1943, and because it marked the second highest loss suffered by the…
B-25 Mitchell Bomber – Photos and Videos
During the Second World War, the high adaptability of the B-25 Mitchell Bomber–named in honor of the pioneer of U.S. military aviation, Brigadier General William…
How Radar was the Game Changer of WWII and It’s Only Gets Better
During World War II, in August 1940, Germany started taking the fight to the skies of Great Britain, the last nation in Europe that stood…
The Soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939
September 1939 is mostly remembered for the German invasion of Poland, the event that triggered the Second World War in Europe. But Germany wasn’t the…