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The man the enemy could not defeat: A giant with a volcanic temper -The only man to be awarded the VC on D-Day

Jack Beckett

The Second World War revealed over the years the stories of many heroes who gave their lives for their country in acts of boundless courage.…

Real Life ‘Jaws’ For Survivors of USS Indianapolis Which Sank Just Before the End of WWII

USS Indianapolis

The year was 2000, the whole world was celebrating the dawn of the new millennium, however in the U.S congress a debate was taking place…

Tommy Prince, Native Canadian, Was So Quiet, Sometimes In Stead Of Killing Germans He Would Steal Something From Them

Tommy Prince was born on October 15th, 1915, in Scanterbury Manitoba Canada in a family of eleven siblings. He left school at an early age…

CABLES SHOW CONFUSED PICTURE OF ATHENIA TORPEDOING – By Tom Sanger

Early Monday morning, Sept. 4, 1939, the American ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy, was awakened by an assistant with the news that a…

31 Images of Rommel & Some You Wouldn’t Have Seen Before?

  Having gained a solid reputation as a military savant of the highest order, Rommel was promoted to Lieutenant General and placed in command of…

Adolf Hitler Planned To Destroy The Manhattan Skyscrapers During WWII – Years Before Osama Bin Laden

The Fuhrer not just wish for world domination. He was specifically obsessed with the vision of the destruction of America’s city, New York. Adolf Hitler…

“Mad Major” Carpenter Attached 6 Bazookas To His Artillery Spotter Plane And Went Tank Hunting

Charles Carpenter enlisted in the US Army in 1942 commissioned a second lieutenant. After completing flight training, Carpenter flew light observation aircraft and accumulated substantial…

The Germans Who Fought With The RAF During WWII

The majority of the British Army during World War Two consisted of British and her Allied troops. However there was a small contingent of a…

What Happened To the French Undersea Cruiser Surcouf? Bermuda Triangle, Sunk by Friendly Fire or Rammed?

The mystery of how the record breaking French submarine Surcouf sunk has been debated since the day it disappeared in the Pacific, near Tahiti. Was…

Camouflage Netting: ‘Making’ Factories into Towns – Bet You Haven’t Seen A Lot of These Before?! We Haven’t!

Jack Beckett

In February 1942 the United States Navy Monitors had been tracking a Japanese submarine lurking on the outskirts of San Francisco. Several nights after this,…

The Horrific Nazi Gas Vans – The Mobile Gas Chambers

Jack Beckett

The Nazis began experimenting with poison gas for the purpose of mass murder in late 1939 with the killing of mental patients (“euthanasia”). A Nazi…

Color Footage Of How Nukes Were Tested On Marines

The most terrible weapon ever created is, of course, the nuclear bomb. During the Second World War, both the Allies and Nazi Germany were working…