5 Very Different Experiences: The D-Day Beaches
The experiences of Allied troops landing on D-Day were very different. The paratroopers scattered by poor weather across hundreds of miles of countryside faced different…
28 Fanastic Saving Private Ryan Behind The Scenes Images
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 film set during the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom…
The Not-So-Great Escape: German POWs Biggest POW Breakout Happened just two days before Christmas 1944
Tunneling through walls, or through cement flooring. Dissolving metal bars with salsa, or the rough end of a nail file. A simple, quick slip through…
Gestapo Torture Chamber Under Eiffel Tower! Shocking
The Geheime Staatspolizei, known by its more infamous abbreviated name The Gestapo, was the official Secret State Police sanctioned and used by Nazi Germany throughout…
April 3, 1942 – When Japan Launched The Final Attack Against Bataan Peninsula
April 3, 1942 – The day when Japanese troops staged its final attack against the Allied forces camped in Bataan, the peninsula which guarded Manila…
The Devil of Rabaul: Japanese Ace With 88 Kills Who Died in the Passenger Seat
“In the ocean of the military, reflective of all distinguished pilots, an honored Buddhist person.” So translates the name awarded to Japanese pilot Hiroyoshi Nishizawa…
The US Navy Destroyer That Sank A Japanese Sub With The Aid of Potatoes
In 1943, a US Navy destroyer engaged a Japanese submarine during the Solomon Islands Campaign. What should have been a skirmish between equals turned out…
The Secret Nazi German Weather Station In Canada, Discovered 38 Years After It Was Built
The Second World War proved to be not only a war fought for resources, territory and domination, but also a war of information. All sides…
“Come and fight a Gurkha!” he yelled, lost his right hand throwing back a grenade then “single handedly” defended his post for 4 hours against 200 enemy soldiers killing 31
Never mess with a Gurkha. Not everyone knows this, but then again, many people don’t know what a Gurkha/Gorkha is. Gurkhas were a branch of…
En Route to North Africa, FDR Was Almost Killed by a Torpedo Fired By A US Navy Destroyer
There is truly no way to quantify who might be the worst crew in US Naval History, but the men of the USS William D.…
After the Nuremberg Trials, Spandau Prison Was Dedicated To Holding 7 Nazi War Criminals
In the borough of Spandau on Berlin’s west side, there sits a shopping complex on Wilhelmstraße that was once a shopping and leisure fixture for…
FUSAG: Patton’s D-Day Army That Didn’t Exist
An army can help win a war without even existing. Strange as that may seem, this is exactly what happened in the case of the First United…