Hans-Ulrich Rudel: Flew more than 2000 missions, destroyed over 500 tanks & the most decorated combat pilot ever
The most decorated combat pilot of all time was not, as you might expect, a fighter pilot, though he did shoot down nine enemy aircraft.…
Crimes committed by the United States during WW2
When thinking about war crimes in World War II, the Holocaust, the Nazi Party, and the Nuremberg trials come to mind. War crimes perpetrated by…
In Band of Brothers Holocaust victims were locked back in the camp, did this really happen?
The TV miniseries Band of Brothers was nominated for 20 Primetime Emmy Awards. The show is entertaining, although it has issues with historical accuracy. One…
Special Forces Jerry “Mad Dog” Shriver Packed as Many as Six Revolvers, Sawn off Shotgun & His Regular Machine Gun
“To Liberate the Oppressed” – US Special Forces Motto For America, the Vietnam War was unlike any other war it had fought before. It was a…
The Red Baron’s “other” Planes Yes He Had More Than Just One Fokker
Though more than 100 years have passed and his record of aerial success was surpassed in WWII, to this day the flying ace that virtually…
The Chosin Reservoir Battle, Memorable Heroics of a Forgotten War
On Thanksgiving Day 1950, in the extremely cold, windy mountains of North Korea, United Nations (U.N.) units of the American Army and Marine forces were…
Don’t Poop at 70,000 Feet: CIA Wrote a Manual for U-2 Pilots on How Not To
The U-2 spy plane, that long, sleek single engine monster that flew at 70,000 feet to photograph the earth’s surface on behalf of the CIA,…
Secret Sale of Somme’s WWI Landmark Butte de Warlencourt Reversed Because of Public Outcry
In this day and age of instant messaging and the 24-hour news cycle, one organization found out the hard way that there is no such…
The Craziest, Almost Insane, Barking Mad Commando Operations in WW2 – Just Amazing Bravery
‘I wasn’t prepared for the question “Why do you want to join the Commandos?” He prompted me with the right answer; “I suppose you want…
Tsar Bomba: The Biggest Blast In Human History
That the world needs the threat of nuclear warfare to maintain a semblance of peace is a contradictory reality most people have come to accept.…
Operation Catapult: Britain Takes Out the Vichy French Fleet
The fall of France to German invasion in 1940 put the British in an uncomfortable position. It led to one of Great Britain’s most controversial…
8 American Tanks of WW2 – Were They the Best?
During the Second World War, America had to move quickly to arm itself. Tanks had become a vital part of combat, as shown by Germany’s…