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The Last Of The Defeated Germans To Surrender In World War Two

Germany finally capitulated on May 8th, 1945, leaving Europe in ruins, but at peace once again. First, Alfred Jodl prepared the ground by signing the…

Himmler’s Diary Gives Chilling Insights Into the Mind of One of the Most Powerful Men in Nazi Germany

Researchers have recently found the diary of Nazi monster Heinrich Himmler, who is considered the mastermind of the ‘final solution’ and many other atrocities of…

The Kamikaze Pilot Who Took His Wife With Him On His Last Flight

Ian Harvey

Even though World War Two had come to an end, the story of a Japanese couple who met their death in a deliberate kamikaze suicide…

Hell’s Highway – 101st Airborne Market Garden Battles South of Veghel (Part 2)

Operation Market Garden, it is September 24th 1944 and we are in the 6th day of the ill-fated operation. Earlier that day the Germans tried…

Top Facts About The Los Angeles WWII Zoot Suit Racial Attacks

David Herold

In 1943, when the United States was involved in World War II the country was rocked on the home front. Thousands of Mexicans had migrated…

The Battle of Stalingrad: The Battle that Broke Hitler

David Herold

It was at the battle of Stalingrad that Hitler met his match, and was dealt a decisive blow, from which he couldn’t recover. The battle was a…

MoH: Despite Serious Wounds, Paul Bolden Took Out 35 German SS Troops In The Bulge

To be clear, the number would have only been 20 had the German SS taken Bolden up on his act of mercy.  For after gunning…

Cutting Off Nazi Oil Production – The Incredibly Costly Ploiesti Mission – Pictures

Damian Lucjan

In the midst of WW2, on August 1, 1943, the Ploiesti Oil Raid took place over Romania. It was a USAAF Operation with the codename “Tidal…

Action T4 – Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Programme That Murdered The Disabled and The Mentally Ill

In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a decree that enabled Nazi Germany to forcefully euthanize patients who they deemed were “unworthy of life”. After the…

Tommy Prince Was So Quiet, Sometimes Instead Of Killing Germans He Would Steal Their Shoes

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…

Hell’s Highway – 101st Airborne Battles South of Veghel In WW2 Operation Market Garden (Part 1)

The date is September 24th, 1944, Operation Market Garden has dragged on into its 6th day and the Germans are about to begin their last…

Jimmy Doolittle Led The First Mission To Bomb Japan – Against All the Odds

Jeff Edwards

Often, war is no different than your average street fight regardless of how crude that might seem. When a man is punched in the nose,…