Wacko: When An American Submarine Took Out a Japanese Troop Train & Much More in the Pacific in WW2
On the 22nd of January, 1945, 30 Japanese merchant ships sat in Namkwan Harbor, in Southern China. They felt safe in their well-defended home, surrounded…
Frederick the Great Leads The Prussian Army – The Pinnacle Of European Military Power In Their Day
The snow muffled all sound save the moan of the wind. The winter skeletons of trees showed black against the blank canvas. Grey sky heavy…
BRDM – The Specialist Soviet Armored Fighting Recon Vehicles
Arriving in 1957 The first BRDM vehicle, the BRDM-1, entered service in the Soviet army in 1957. It had been accepted for use by the…
Raining Fire – Soviet Multiple Rocket Launcher Vehicles of the Cold War
Rocketry was an important part of the Warsaw Pact to armies during the Cold War. Having discovered in WWII that multiple rocket launchers (MRLs) were…
Amazingly Detailed D-Day Documents and Photos Sold in Auction
More than seventy years after World War II, a dossier of reconnaissance pictures and intelligence documents used to prepare for the D-Day invasion on Gold…
One of The Most Remarkable Test Pilots Ever: Survived The Sinking of HMS Audacity & Flew over 480 Different types of Aircraft
There are many British aviators who can boast that they contributed to the war effort by taking to the skies over Europe to defeat the…
“Hell Roaring Mike”: A Highly Respected American Commander At Sea
Michael Augustine Healy was the first African-American man to command a US ship. He was well known and well respected for his actions off the…
Capture of the Privateer Jeune Richard, 1807 – When 28 men defeated 92
On October 1, 1807, a lone British packet was sailing 110 miles off the Northeast Coast of Barbados. The crew of 28, both men and…
The Tragedy of the Destroyer USS Leopold
Convoy escort during WWII could be both a terrifying or dull affair. Sailors spent hours peering into gray seas, searching for and dreading the prospect…
Sergeant York – I hear you have captured the whole German army “No Sir, only 132”
Sergeant Alvin York was seemingly born to a hardscrabble existence and anonymity in death, but World War One changed that forever. The story of York is…
Glorious Gloster Single Handedly Charges Chinese Bunker Twice, Threw Grenade With His Last Breath, Saves His Men
It has often been said of both faith and war, that greater love hath no man than the one who lays down his life for…
The Flaming Coffin, The German Heavy Dive Bomber The Luftwaffe Hated
The Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffin) was an aircraft doomed from the start of its inception. Its design was intrinsically flawed, its engines frequently caught…