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The Pointe Du Hoc Bunker Story (Watch)

Watch the “Pointe Du Hoc Bunker Story.” This video gives viewers a first-hand look at the observation bunker on the cliffs of Omaha Beach. Constructed…

The Axis Powers: How A Handful Of Individuals Changed The World

The Second World War was a transformative event in global history. More than a hundred million soldiers took part in the hostilities. Sixty to eighty…

VC: To Throw His Grenade He Crawled Within 5 Meters of Taliban Sniper When He Was Hit By A Bullet And Killed By His Own Grenade

Not all war stories have a happy ending and, in fact, one might make the case that most do not. This is ever truer when…

The Battle of Monte Cassino and the Breaking of the Gustav Line

Colin Fraser

The main fixture of these nearly insurmountable defenses that General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in Italy threw the bulk of his…

This Man Builds A Short Stirling WWII Bomber In His Garden Shed!

Many gentlemen tinker in garages and build or restore old vehicles.  Of the thousands who share this hobby, one must stand out as being completely…

3 Top Japanese Fighter Aces

David Herold

While the Allies and the Axis powers all had their own strong aircraft support, the pilots sitting behind their control panels had skill and expertise…

B-24 ‘Lady Be Good’ – Crashed In 1943, Finally Discovered in 1958

The wreckage of a USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) plane that went missing during its first and last mission in the Second World War…

Fought Japanese in China When 15, Then Franco in Spain and In WWII Europe, Killed 6 Germans and Took 2 POW During a Heroic Charge, Awarded MoH in 1997

Jeff Edwards

One look at the life of Medal of Honor recipient Edward Allen Carter and it doesn’t take you long to realize that this was a…

P.1000 Ratte – Paper tiger or supertank?

As the beginning of the war swept over Europe, with lightening speed. Hitler felt invincible throughout the first two years of the war. He was…

Four Surprisingly Deadly Battles of the 20th Century

The books of history are filled with stories of wars. History speaks itself for the fact that we have failed at avoiding wars from ancient…

A Drone Flew Over Auschwitz, What It Recorded Will Chill You to the Bone

This chilling drone video was shot by the BBC and shows the enormity of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today – over 70…

The Tide Turns – One Battle Ended the Seemingly Unstoppable Mongol Invasion

Malcolm Higgins

There are few military forces more infamous and renowned in history than the Mongolian armies of the 13th Century. They swept through Asia and into…