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Video: A C-5 Galaxy Air Launches An ICBM. What!?

The ICBM, or Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, is a nuclear weapon designed to destroy entire cities. Fortunately, they have never before been used in war. They…

Top 10 Long Range Sniper Kills

A sniper is a skilled marksman whose job is to shoot someone from afar without hitting anyone (or anything) else. But it’s not just about…

Italian Paper Gives Away Copies of Mein Kampf – Shocks Italy

Il Giornale, a right-wing Italian tabloid, is giving away free copies of Mein Kampf, causing shock and condemnation in Italy. The anti-Semitic manifesto was written…

Pope Francis to Visit Auschwitz Death Camp In July

Pope Francis will visit Poland in July and make a stop at Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 29th. The visit is occurring during the Pope’s trip to…

Man Finds World War II Love Letters in Shed

Derrick Heckman found a box of papers in the back of a shed. “I found this box,” Heckman said. “I saw these letters with this unique…

David Thatcher – Doolittle Raider Veteran Dies

Retired Staff Sergeant David Jonathan Thatcher died Wednesday at the age of 94 from a stroke he suffered on Sunday. Thatcher was one of the…

How To Assemble & Launch A V-2 Rocket (Watch)

The V-2 rockets were the first ever successful long-range guided ballistic missiles. In a lack of effective long-range strategic bombers, the Nazis turned to constructing…

Arab Women Shame Their Fleeing Men Back Towards the Fight At The Battle of Yarmouk

Most people are familiar with the general history of the Arab expansion after the death of Mohammad. The Arabs didn’t sit idly in Saudi Arabia,…

When The Wehrmacht, In Retaliation, Carted Off 601 Dutch Men To Concentration Camps, 48 Returned

It is a matter of historical fact that Nazi Germany committed truly horrific crimes against humanity during WWII. Germany and 14 other countries have even…

These 4 Massive Nazi-Built Bunkers Near Calais Are Both Frightening and Stunning

The Atlantic Wall was an extensive system of coastal defence and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental…

50 Amazing Photos of the Operation Bagration, 22 June 1944

On the 22nd of June 1944,  Operation Bagration began. Three years after Operation Barbarossa, Russia was taking the fight to the Germans. The operation was…

Battles of Attu & Kiska: Retaking The Only US Soil Lost During WWII

In the cold, desolate Arctic near Alaska in 1942, Japanese troops quietly invaded and took over two of the Aleutian Islands, considered to be North…