When Finland Switched Sides And Fought Germany Too
Throughout World War II, countless countries fought against one another. While the majority of the battles pitted the Allied Forces against the Axis Powers, other…
10 Facts – The Disastrous Dieppe Raid That Carved The Path For All Future Allied Landing Operations
The Dieppe Raid which happened in Northern France, in 1942, positioned itself in history as ground zero for all large-scale invasion operations in WWII conducted…
Meet the Mad WW2 Major Who Charged Ashore With Bow, Arrow, And Longsword
History is full of heroes, but how many of them have carved their name into history with bow and arrow, at least in modern times?After…
101st Airborne – Bastogne in WW2 – The Belt That Saved A Life (Watch)
Battlefield guide Reg Jans tells the story about two paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion 506th who went looking for food outside their lines. A mortar…
The Battle for Normandy – Amazing Images from the Battlefields
In 1944 the Allies began to plan an invasion of France, then occupied by Nazi Germany. Germany was losing on the Italian and the Russian…
Where Patton Awarded McAuliffe: The 101st Airborne HQ Chateau in Bastogne Revisited
In this Dakota Hunter Blog, you will read about an insane plan that the Germans deployed in a final effort to break the imminent Allied…
The Invasion of Crete: The Great Paratroop Invasion Which Was So Costly For The Germans That It Became Their Last
The age of the paratrooper arrived with the Second World War. For a brief yet significant period until the rise of the transport helicopter, paratroopers…
James Bond Author Ian Fleming’s Service in the British Intelligence During WWII
Ian Fleming, the author of the cult spy novel franchise centering around an MI-6 agent, James Bond, code named 007, had a history of intelligence…
Adolf Eichmann, the Evil Architect of the Holocaust in WW2
Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, became an infamous figure after his heavily publicized trial and execution in Israel in 1962.…
Planes, Tanks and Armored Cars – World War Two Wrecks in the Desert
Check it out! From Sherman tanks to armored cars and even a plane, this video shows us photos of abandoned world war 2 wrecks in…
In WW2, Peter Rupp Saved 14 American Soldiers from Certain Death at the Hands of the Nazis
Twenty-four hours after the start of the Battle of the Bulge, a horrific chain of events began to unfold in the tiny Belgian town of…
Le Paradis – Where the SS Murdered 97 British Prisoners on May 27th 1940
In 1940, members of the British military were slaughtered – after they had surrendered to German forces. Two survived, but no one believed their story.…