World War 2 | War History

The Battle of Taranto In 1940 May Have Influenced Japanese Tactics At Pearl Harbor

David Herold

Out of all the battles that took place during WWII, there are some that have had a deep impact on both sides. The Battle of…

The Final Attempts On Hitler’s Life, Before He Killed Himself

In a recent post, we revisited all of the assassination attempts on Hitler before the war. Before the war, Hitler’s would-be assassins were his political opponents…

The LAST B-24 built at Douglas in Tulsa – The Tulsamerican was found in the Ocean nearly 70 years after Fatal Crash

A search for the remains of the plane known as the Tulsamerican had been going on for years. In 2010,  a team from the Croatian…

Tony Bennett: A WWII Veteran participated in the Liberation of a German Death Camp and was Demoted for Dining with a Black Friend

Widely known as the 1950s and 60s singer of popular hit songs such as “Blue Velvet,” “Rags to Riches” and “Stranger in Paradise,” Tony Bennett…

Dawn of the Wolf Pack: October 18, 1940 – Germany Targets Allied Supply Routes in WWII

Gabe Christy

Thirty-five ships steamed out of Sydney, Nova Scotia on October 5, 1940. A multitude of flags flew from their masts including Greece, Sweden, the Netherlands…

The Polish Thermopylae: 800 vs 42,000 at Wizna, 1939

Greg Jackson

As German troops poured across the border into Poland in 1939, one Polish captain, 40 miles from the front line, prepared for what he knew…

Fearless Escapes Over (And Under) The Berlin Wall

Sarah Cooper

When the Second World War was finally over, Germany was divided up into four occupation zones among the Allied forces. Berlin was also divided up…

Operation Mincemeat – How the Allies Tricked Hitler to open the gates of Sicily

World War II was fought on battlefields across the globe, with staggering numbers of casualties amassing on all sides. But under the cloak of darkness,…

Charity Edna Adams – the Highest Ranking African-American Woman During WWII

During WWII, the US did its best to maintain the flow of mail to its troops in Europe. Unfortunately, most able-bodied workers were either fighting…

Hans-Ulrich Rudel – The Flying Tank Buster Who Flew More Than 2,000 Missions And Killed Over 500 Tanks

Hans-Ulrich Rudel was shot down 30 times during his 2,530 missions. He destroyed one battleship, one cruiser, one destroyer, 70 landing craft, 800 vehicles, 150…

Horrifying, Tragic, Inspirational – How the Nazis Destroyed Lidice and the World Preserved its Memory

pd

In June 1942, the Nazi German occupiers of Czechoslovakia destroyed the mining village of Lidice. It was wiped off the map so completely that even…

The Rogue British Officer Who Broke All the Rules, Founded the SAS, and was Nicknamed by the Germans, “The Phantom Major”

Jeff Edwards

If there hadn’t been a global war for survival taking place, Major David Stirling is the type of British Officer who would have been thrown…