The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries Of The Second World War
Whatever happened to Hitler’s famous office globe? What happened to Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat that saved thousands of Jews? Who betrayed the Anne Frank and…
The Wacko Story of Jumpin’ Joe Beyrle – The US Paratrooper who Served in a Soviet Tank Battalion a Hero of Two Nations
War sometimes creates strange circumstances. The following story is about a soldier who became a hero of two nations. Joseph Robert Beyrle was born on…
Lacey Lady, The B17 WWII Bomber, To Be Restored To Its Former Glory
The Lacey Lady is a World War II-era B-17G bomber. For years it sat above Art Lacey’s gas station in Milwaukie, Oregon. It was long…
The main reasons why the allied landings at Anzio were a failure – within three days of the landing, the Allied troops were surrounded by 3 Panzer divisions
Towards the end of 1943, Allied forces were struggling to fight their way up Italy in the face of stern resistance from German Field Marshal…
Hitler Considered Occupying The Small English Isle of Wight in WWII – It Could Have Changed History
Dr. Robert Forczyk, a military historian, analyzed German military records and found that Adolf Hitler had suggested the Nazis invade the Isle of Wight. The…
John Capes, In WWII When His Submarine Sank He Swam 170 feet To The Surface and Swam 5 miles To Shore
During WWII, John Hawtrey Capes said he have saved three crew members of a sunken submarine. He was given a British Empire Medal for Meritorious…
Top Secret: US Naval Base At Ulithi Was For A Time The World’s Largest Naval Facility
On March 1945, the largest convoy of US Navy ships and personnel sailed from a base in the Pacific Ocean. Where was this base? This monumental…
When “Red Mike” Edson & His 800 Men Were Up Against 2,500 Japanese – “You men have done a great job, & I have just one more thing to ask of you”
After more than 24 hours of fending off a ferocious Japanese assault, the sun began to set and the Marines of 1st Raider Battalion knew…
When “Red Mike” Edson & His 800 Men Were Up Against 2,500 Attacking Japanese – “You men have done a great job, and I have just one more thing to ask of you”
After more than 24 hours of fending off a ferocious Japanese assault, the sun began to set and the Marines of 1st Raider Battalion knew…
When the former commander Treblinka, Kurt Franz, was arrested in 1959, a search of his home yielded a scrapbook with horrific photos of the massacre titled “Beautiful Years”
Kurt Hubert Franz (born on 17 January 1914 — died on 4 July 1998) was an officer of the SS and one of many commanders…
WWII Jeep in a Crate for $50 – fact or a tall story
A young man reading one of the magazines like Boy’s Life or Popular Science in the 40s or 50s might have come across an exciting…
Crazy French Count Blew Up German Factory With Baguettes Filled With Explosives
In 1938, 15-year-old Count Robert Jean-Marie de La Rochefoucauld went to pay Hitler a visit in Bavaria. The German Chancellor gave Rochefoucauld a friendly pat…