PPSh-41 – The Most Mass-Produced Submachine Gun of WWII
The Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun was one of the most common weapons of the Second World War. The famous modification of the PPSh with a…
The BBC’s Coded Messages to the French Resistance During World War II
One of the best-known films about the Second World War is The Longest Day (1962), which centers around D-Day. In a number of scenes, members…
The First Bomb Dropped by The Allies on Berlin Didn’t Harm Anyone But Did Hit an Elephant in Berlin Zoo!
More bombs fell on Berlin in the Second World War than on any other German city. Fifty thousand people died, and hundreds of thousands became…
He Actually Fought at Pegasus Bridge on D-Day Then Went on to Star in The Movie Longest Day
The realism – or lack thereof – with which war movies depict historical battles is one yardstick by which films in this genre are measured.…
Five Incredible & Inspiring Tales of Bravery from the Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was an intense test of aerial superiority between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe. Following the conquest…
Three Italian PoWs Broke Out of a PoW Camp, Not to Escape But to Climb Mount Kenya For Fun!
When a prisoner of war concocts a plan to escape the prison camp in which he is incarcerated, his greatest is fear is usually being…
The Japanese Thought this Tiny Island was Empty, They were Utterly Wrong
After Nishikaichi, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot, crashed his fighter into the tiny Hawaiian island of Ni’ihau in 1941, he may have failed…
The Largely Overlooked Story of How Himmler “Saved” Thousands of Jews
He built the notorious Schutzstaffel (SS) from a battalion of a mere 290 men into a paramilitary group of over a million, established himself as…
The Most Decorated Unit in US Military History Fought for a Country That Locked Up Their Families
The heroes of World War II came in all shapes and sizes, and some of the biggest fought for their country, despite facing injustice at…
Walther Wenck – Hitler’s Last Hope?
On the night of April 29-30, 1945, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel received several messages from Adolf Hitler. One of them posed the question: “Where are…
Deadly Bigotry: When Canada, America & Cuba Rejected Jewish Refugees before WW2
Hitler’s extreme anti-Semitism was coming to a head when over 900 Jews bordered the MS St. Louis in an effort to escape from Germany just…
The P-38: The American Super-plane That The British Didn’t Want
During the Second World War, Adolf Hitler’s Luftwaffe was considered a formidable, ominous enemy by Allied pilots who took on the German planes over…