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Nancy Wake – WW2 Freedom Fighter, Allied Agent, And The Gestapo’s Most Wanted

The books and moments of history are filled with memorable names, courageous figures, and moments of sheer ingenuity. Yet not all names are as well…

Iowa Family Finds Wreckage Of Father’s P-47 Bomber In Italy

Lt. Loren Hintz was on his 64th mission on April 21, 1945. He was the last of twelve planes bombing buildings that housed German troops…

The Gun: US Airforce Reveals Everything About The Legendary A-10 Thunderbolt II (Watch)

Video Feature on the A-10 Thunderbolt II Aircraft with a focus on its primary weapon system, the GAU-8 Avenger. In the early 1970s, the A-10…

Even Better Than The Mustang – These Soviet Yak 3 Fighters Owned The Sky (Watch)

The Soviet Yak fighter (Yakovlev Yak-3) was a Soviet dogfighter that was used in World War 2. This was a robust craft, and its maintenance…

Facebook Instrumental In Returning WW1 Dogtag To The Family

A few weeks ago a man walked into the Randolph, Massachusetts’s police station, said Officer Kevin Aldred. He told police that he wanted to return…

Volunteers And Veterans Work Hard To Keep A Piece of History Afloat

More than 70 years ago, the Allied forces of World War II invaded Omaha Beach in Normandy, France as part of the D-Day operations. Thanks…

The Full Horror of the Nazis’ Treatment of Women is Explored in this Important Book

Ian Harvey

Warning: Some readers may find the content of this article distressing Dr. Beverley Chalmers’ latest book is Birth, Sex, and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule…

Wounded, He Sacrificed Himself to Clear the way for his Platoon – James Stokes, VC

Jack Beckett

Private James Stokes’ thirtieth birthday was February 6th, 1945. On the 1st of March, less than one month later, he came to the end of…

10 Facts: Japanese Admiral Yamamoto – The Architect Of The Pearl Harbor Attack

Colin Fraser

Isoroku Yamamoto was the Japanese Imperial Navy Admiral and Commander-in-chief who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941. He was hated by U.S.…

Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, The WW2 Japanese Plan to Unleash Biological Warfare on the USA

World War II introduced the international community to a host of new horrors: Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps dedicated to death, Japan’s air-led destruction that turned…

Skorzeny: The Mythical Nazi Commando (Part 2)

Continues from SKORZENY: The Mythical Commando (Part 1) By Adeyinka Makinde At the time, both the Hague and Geneva Conventions permitted the execution of “spies and saboteurs”…

This Cocky Pilot Needed The Ground Crew To Cover Up His Crash!

In the USA they were labeled ’Gung-ho,’ the British called them ‘Cocky’ – in essence, the words describe an attitude of enthusiasm coupled with an…