Yamashita’s Gold: More than 70 Years of Treasure Hunting and a Controversial Lawsuit Involving the Former President of the Philippines
The notion of hidden WWII Nazi treasures acquired from the looting of European countries attracts adventurers and conspiracy theorists alike to this day. However, little…
The Youngest Soldier In WWI Was A Serbian Boy, Aged 8
Momčilo Gavrić was the youngest soldier in the First World War. He was born in May 1st, in 1906 in a village near the town of Loznica in…
When The Allies Attacked Oran And Were Annihilated By Vichy French Soldiers
After the fall of France during WWII, a puppet regime was established, with its administrative center in the town of Vichy, declaring itself The Vichy…
More Bombs Were Dropped on Laos during the Secret War Than on All Countries Combined during WWII
The Laotian Civil War remains one of the lesser known conflicts in Southeast Asia during 1970, due to the secretive nature of its belligerents and…
Fight on – the Story of an Australian Sailor Who Went down with the Ship While Firing His AA Gun from Underwater
Personal sacrifice has always been the pinnacle of heroic acts in war. When a man is ready to give his own life in order to…
Georg Gartner: A German Soldier who lived in the US for 40 years under a false identity after he escaped from a POW camp
As WWII was almost over in the fall of 1945, the German POWs who had spent their war years in captivity were preparing to go…
The Amazing SOE Operation To Kidnap General Heinrich Kreipe From Crete
The Special Operation Executive (SOE) in 1944, planned to conduct a daring mission in Crete. Their initial plan was to kidnap the German commander of…
Roman Ungern von Sternberg, The Reincarnation Of Genghis Khan In The Bolshevik Revolution
A mystic, a savage sadist, a madman or one of the last cavalry strategic geniuses? This peculiar warlord left an interesting trace in Asian history.…
The Unlucky Soviet Nuclear Submarine K-19, Nicknamed “Hiroshima”
The misfortunes of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19 could fit into some mariner’s folk tales of bad luck at sea. Even during its construction, a…
The Heroic Story of the Lost Battalion in WWI who survived multiple Enemy Attacks and Friendly Fire while never backing down
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was one of the most significant military operations of WWI. It was the final push by the Allies on the Western Front…
The Origin of the Expression “The Thin Red Line” dates from the Crimean War
The Crimean War commenced in 1853 and ended three years later, in 1856. A coalition of Ottoman, British, French and Sardinian forces opposed the Russian…
These High-Flying Pilots Were Top German Luftwaffe Aces Of WWII
The Ace Fighter cult came to prominence during the First World War, which was the first conflict that utilized the use of aircraft in a…