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The Murky Fate Of Gestapo Chief And Nazi War Criminal Heinrich Müller

A veil of mystery follows the name “Heinrich Muller” since his disappearance in 1945, after the fall of Berlin. Mueller was the head of Gestapo…

Here are some of the best U-Boat aces of WWII

Colin Fraser

The following is a list of the top ten U-Boat commanders in WW II. It is based upon the number of ships they sank and…

Researchers Document SS Thistlegorm Site With High Resolution Images

The University of Nottingham has started the Thistlegorm Project in hopes of documenting and preserving this important artifact of history.  Dr. Jon Henderson is the…

WW2 Captain Rested In Arlington Cemetary For Decades – Now He Has Been Returned Home To North Carolina

The Russell family still resides in Gold Hill including a sister, brother in law and several nieces and nephews.  According to Captain Lamar Shafer Russell’s…

The Channel Dash Kriegsmarine Trying to Save Its Ships – A Fast-Moving Naval Battle Of WWII

Most of the naval action of WWII took place in the vast spaces of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but there were also confrontations in…

When A British Destroyer Rammed a German Cruiser In World War Two

April 8, 1940, two ships found each other off the coast of Norway. One a German heavy cruiser the Admiral Hipper, the other, a British…

Controversial: These Household Names Worked With The Third Reich During WWII

Jack Beckett

Kodak The famous camera company’s German branch actually used slave labor from German concentration camps. Several European branches of Kodak did extensive business with the…

The Most Decorated Pacifist Of WWI: Stormed German Machine Gun Nests, Taking 35 Machine Guns, Silencing 25 German Troops & Captured 132

He was a deeply religious man who abhorred violence and warfare. Despite that, he went on to become the most decorated veteran of WWI. Alvin…

The Day General Taylor Went On A Secret Mission To Occupied Rome in 1943

General Tylor’s diplomatic and language skills resulted in his secret mission to Rome to coordinate an 82nd Airborne para drop with Italian forces. General Dwight…

Amazing Story: One Of The Toughest, Most Skilled American Snipers In Vietnam

Carlos Hathcock was a genuine Vietnam War hero and an undisputed legend in the U.S. Marine Corps for his exploits in southeast Asia. With a…

Some of the Reasons for the French Military Disaster at Dien Bien Phu

Arrogance. Ignorance. Poor planning. These were the weapons with which French commanders fought the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and with which they ensured their…

Reasons World War I Became Inevitable

The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented scale and destructiveness. Though its impact was unexpected, the arrival of war itself was not. Though…