Forget Robin Hood: Meet the Mad Major Who Charged Ashore With Bow, Arrow & 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…
Have You Ever Seen Anything Like These Crazy WW2 Weapons?
Towards the end of World War II, Nazi scientists and engineers were working on a number of destructive and innovative devices. The Germans were losing…
18 Little Known Facts About Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin, or Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, is a man who, unfortunately, needs no introduction. He was one of World War II’s most infamous leaders,…
Researchers Unlock Secrets of the Nuked Carrier USS Independence
Underwater archaeologists have determined the role USS Independence played after World War II. They used declassified government documents and sonar images of the shipwrecked vessel…
Wounded, He Sacrificed Himself to Clear the way for his Platoon – James Stokes, VC
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…
Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, The WW2 Japanese Plan to Wage 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…
The Death of Erwin Rommel: The Last Hours Of The Desert Fox
Erwin Rommel was, for a time, Hitler’s favorite general. After his success in 1940, as the commander of a Panzer division, Rommel was appointed to…
10 Things You Never Knew About Japanese Admiral Yamamoto – The Architect Of The Pearl Harbor Attack
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.…
Reindeer Battalion of WWII Braver than Soviets, Tougher than Tanks
The Petsamo-Kirkenes Offensive in 1944, which led to the expulsion of German forces from the northerly regions of Norway, would have been severely hampered had…
The Battle of Ortona – When 2,600 Canadian Men Were Sacrificed for a General’s Pride
In December 1943, a group of largely untested Canadians went up against German forces in the Italian town of Ortona. The result was a bloodbath…
The Legendary Paratrooper: The Amazing Story of Ted Bachenheimer
Theodore Herman Bachenheimer earned many titles in his life. They weren’t always the titles of rank or hierarchical authority, but rather the ones given to him…
The Great Escape: Harrowing Truth vs Hollywood Fiction
In 2006, a poll in the United Kingdom was done to determine which old family film TV viewers would want to watch in Christmas. Taking…