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    • Vinegar Joe Stilwell – a tough, brilliant, but difficult commander in World War Two

      December 29, 2017

    • The Philadelphia Experiment: The US Navy’s Secret Invisibility Research Program

      December 29, 2017

    • Sinking the Tirpitz, Sister to the Bismarck and the Heaviest European Battleship Ever

      December 29, 2017

    • Saint Nazaire Raid: Massive Intel, Courage, Sacrifice and Big Explosions

      December 29, 2017

    • After the Nuremberg Trials, Spandau Prison Was Dedicated To Holding 7 Nazi War Criminals

      December 29, 2017

    • Hacksaw Ridge, Desmond Doss, And The Battle Of Okinawa

      December 29, 2017

    • Patton, Guderian, Rommel – Three Great Tank Commanders of WWII

      December 28, 2017

    • Heinz Guderian: A Great German Commander of WWII – He Stood Up To Hitler

      December 28, 2017

    • Britain’s Bomber Balloon Attacks Against Nazi Germany

      December 28, 2017

    • Operation Longcloth: The Burma Campaign of WWII – “The greatest guerrilla operation ever undertaken”

      December 28, 2017

    • The First Allied Soldier Killed By Enemy Fire on D-Day – Lieutenant Den Brotheridge At Pegasus Bridge

      December 28, 2017

    • Orde Wingate: Daring, Eccentric, and Unconventional, a Fascinating Fighter in World War Two

      December 28, 2017

    • How the Allies Smashed the Nazi German Military Industry

      December 28, 2017

    • Operation Cobra, 1944: Breaking Out of Normandy

      December 28, 2017

    • Orde Wingate: The Most Controversial British Commander of WWII

      December 28, 2017

    • Japanese Admiral Yamamoto – The Architect Of The Pearl Harbor Attack

      December 28, 2017

    • John Glenn, Astronaut & Senator Who Flew Combat Missions in WW2 & Korea – shot down 3 MiG-15s

      December 28, 2017

    • The RAF and the Luftwaffe: Different Ways They Approached WWII

      December 28, 2017

    • Australia’s Pearl Harbor – The Bombing of Darwin By Hundreds of Japanse Aircraft

      December 28, 2017

    • Facts about the German defeat at Verdun (1916)

      December 28, 2017

    • Of Course, we all knew this… Secret WW2 German Inventions – The Jetpack

      December 28, 2017

    • Kasserine Pass 1943: Rommel’s Last Victory?

      December 28, 2017

    • The Pacific Island Hopping Strategy: Taking Eniwetok Atoll

      December 28, 2017

    • The U-Boat War: A Vital and Misjudged Part of WWII

      December 28, 2017

    • Oskar Groening, The“Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” Found Fit To Serve His Time In Prison

      December 27, 2017

    • These WW2 Railwaymen Gave Their Lives to Prevent a Munitions Disaster

      December 27, 2017

    • Building ‘Camp Swampy’ – Missouri military experience helped inspire iconic Beetle Bailey® comic strip

      December 27, 2017

    • The British POW Who Saved Hundreds of Jews from Death at Auschwitz

      December 27, 2017

    • Great Military Deceptions of World War Two

      December 27, 2017

    • The Crew Of The B-24 Liberator “Star Valley” – Downed Behind Enemy Lines

      December 27, 2017

    • The First US Soldier to Receive the Medal of Honor in WW2 Volunteered for the Fight that Killed Him

      December 27, 2017

    • How the British Military Learned in Advance About the V2 Rocket – and How They Responded

      December 27, 2017

    • Operation Overlord: The Greatest Amphibious Landing in History – Part 2

      December 27, 2017

    • The Raid on Alexandria – Military History of Italy in WW2

      December 27, 2017

    • Eric Liddell, the Record Breaking Olympian Who Kept Hope Alive in a Japanese Prison Camp

      December 27, 2017

    • 21-Year-Old Bomber Pilot Who Died Saving His Comrades in WWII

      December 27, 2017

    • Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis, Recipient of the Only Victoria Cross for D-Day

      December 27, 2017

    • Second World War Naval Reservist Was Awarded the VC After Surviving 31 Air Attacks in 4 Days

      December 27, 2017

    • “Dusting off memories” – Veteran shares story of service in Merchant Marines and U.S. Air Force

      December 27, 2017

    • Fog Of War – Often, the Allies Couldn’t Tell if Bombing Campaigns Were Working

      December 27, 2017

    • Two Childhood Friends Helped Found an Elite WW2 Unit Then Died on the Same Day, Hundreds of Miles Apart

      December 27, 2017

    • Chaos In The Aftermath Of World War One: The German Revolution: 1918-1919

      December 27, 2017

    • Godfrey Place: World War Two Submariner, Future Admiral, And Victoria Cross Recipient

      December 27, 2017

    • This German Paratrooper Held An Impressive Record, And May Have Been Part Of The Plot To Assassinate Hitler

      December 27, 2017

    • Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz – His Leadership During WWII Won The War in the Pacific

      December 27, 2017

    • Fake Pipes and Mixed Signals: Military Intelligence in North Africa in WWII

      December 27, 2017

    • Hugh Seagrim, Who Fought WW2 from Behind Japanese Lines

      December 27, 2017

    • John Bridge: Heroic Bomb Disposal Expert of the Second World War

      December 27, 2017

    • The True Story Of A Famous World War Two Photograph

      December 27, 2017

    • Advance on Canae: The World War Two Invasion of Crete

      December 26, 2017

    • Saving Sara Matuson: How 10 POWs Risked Their Lives to Save One Woman

      December 26, 2017

    • Learning the Luftwaffe’s Secrets: How Intelligence Gathering Shaped the Battle of Britain

      December 26, 2017

    • 13 Officials Who Hindered Britain’s Readiness for World War Two

      December 26, 2017

    • Seven Reasons Why Britain was Unprepared for World War Two

      December 26, 2017

    • The Oslo Report: How a German Scientist Gave Away Nazi Military Secrets and Why Britain Almost Ignored Him

      December 26, 2017

    • The Awesome B-54 Ultrafortress, Boeing’s Best Piston Prop Bomber That Failed To Ever Fly

      December 26, 2017

    • A Terrible Mistake – Why The USSR Ignored Britain’s Warnings of Impending Invasion

      December 26, 2017

    • The Amazing Harry Errington: The Only London Fireman to Earn a George Cross for Service in the Blitz

      December 26, 2017

    • The most decorated Marine in United States history – Chesty Puller, American Hero

      December 26, 2017

    • Bill Slim and WWII’s Forgotten Army – One Of The Most Successful Commanders Of The War

      December 26, 2017

    • Four British Intelligence Agents of World War Two and Their Very Different Civilian Lives

      December 26, 2017

    • The Inspiring Story of the Search For a Family Veteran – by Jim Knudsen

      December 26, 2017

    • “Sea Stories” – WWII veteran shares tales of service aboard troop transport in the Pacific

      December 26, 2017

    • A Race for Superiority – The Sources of Military Intelligence in World War Two

      December 26, 2017

    • The Rosary Paratrooper – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte

      December 26, 2017

    • The First Thousand-Bomber Raid – Changing the WWII Air War

      December 26, 2017

    • Operation Overlord: The Greatest Amphibious Landing in History – Part 1

      December 26, 2017

    • Britain’s Sacrifice of Crete Preserved North Africa For The Allies In World War Two

      December 26, 2017

    • The Horrible Nazi T4 Euthanasia Project Exterminated Thousands Of People – The Repercussions Were Still Being Felt 25 Years Later

      December 25, 2017

    • Albert Speer, The Ambitious Young Architect Who Rose To Prominence Within The Nazi Party

      December 25, 2017

    • Russian World War II General Ivan Konev – Marshal and Hero of the Soviet Union

      December 25, 2017

    • White Rose: The German Anti-Nazi Activists Who Were Beheaded In 1943

      December 25, 2017

    • With Every Other Senior Officer Dead, the Battle Control Officer of the USS San Francisco Waded through Waist Deep Water to Save the Ship

      December 25, 2017

    • Fleet Admiral Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief Was Fiercely Opposed to Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan

      December 25, 2017

    • The Story Of The Ballpoint Pen – Patented By László Bíró of Hungary, First Used By The Royal Air Force

      December 25, 2017

    • Incredible Bravery – Jesse L Brown: Exemplary Aviator in the US Navy

      December 25, 2017

    • Thomas Hudner: Medal of Honor Recipient – He Crashed His Plane To Save His Comrade

      December 25, 2017

    • Charles Rogers: Medal of Honor Recipient

      December 25, 2017

    • The Warsaw Uprising: The Heroic Final Stand of the Polish Home Army and the Destruction of Warsaw

      December 25, 2017

    • Banzai Charges From the Tunnels During The 1945 Battle of Corregidor Island

      December 25, 2017

    • It’s Pure Luck – Veteran’s service in WWII begins decade’s long association with Air Force

      December 25, 2017

    • The 96 American Soldiers Buried In Unmarked Graves In France For Their Crimes Against Local Civilians And Fellow Soldiers

      December 24, 2017

    • In 1944, Rupert Trimmingham’s Letter Carved The Path To Racial Equality Within The US Armed Forces

      December 23, 2017

    • After WWII, The Outdated Medical Practice Of Lobotomy Permanently Damaged Thousands Of Horrifically Traumatized American Veterans

      December 23, 2017

    • The Last WWII Soldier Ever To Be Repatriated Was András Toma, A Hungarian Who Spent 53 Years In A Russian Mental Institution

      December 23, 2017

    • Japanese Monster Aircraft Carrier Submarines – By Hans Wiesman

      December 23, 2017

    • Clem Dowler Went From B-17 Ball Turret Gunner To Guerilla Fighter

      December 23, 2017

    • Iowa Class Battlecruisers – We Ask If America’s Most Powerful Dreadnoughts May Actually Have Been Battlecruisers

      December 23, 2017

    • The “Kilted Killer” – The Scottish Officer Who Made Almost 20,000 Of The Enemy Surrender

      December 23, 2017

    • Ángel Sanz-Briz – The Angel Of Budapest, Who Saved 5000 From The Nazis In WW2

      December 23, 2017

    • Doughboys on the Juvigny Plateau, 1918 – Guest Blog by Dr. Paul Dean

      December 23, 2017

    • George H. Bush Narrowly Escaped Being Executed and Eaten By The Japanese in WWII

      December 23, 2017

    • Their Lives For You – Battle of the Bulge Veteran Awarded France’s Highest Accolade

      December 23, 2017

    • The Battle of Monte Cassino and the Breaking of the Gustav Line

      December 23, 2017

    • Justice Chambers Personified the Marines in the Pacific in WWII

      December 23, 2017

    • Channel Dash: When the Germans Snuck a Whole Fleet Group Through the English Channel

      December 23, 2017

    • The Perfect, Unkillable Soldier – He Fought In Wars For Almost Fifty Years

      December 23, 2017

    • World War Two – Three of Germany’s Top StuG Aces

      December 22, 2017

    • The Polish Thermopylae: 800 vs 42,000 at Wizna, 1939

      December 22, 2017

    • Used His Last Moments In a Burning B-24 To Sink a U-Boat – Rescued German Captain Recommended Him For a VC

      December 22, 2017

    • Tough As Nails – Lauritz Sand – The Most Tortured Man in Norway During WWII

      December 22, 2017

    • Tibor “Ted” Rubin: How Mauthausen Concentration Camp Helped Him Survive the Korean War

      December 22, 2017

    • The Iowa Class: A Departure from Traditional US Battleship Design

      December 22, 2017

    • Honor: Counterproductive Japanese War Ethics in WWII

      December 22, 2017

    • Charged alone with nothing but a pistol killing all four occupants, First Lt. Harry L. Martin Sacrificed his life for his Marines

      December 22, 2017

    • The Awesome Alaska Class: America’s (Not Quite) Battlecruisers

      December 22, 2017

    • ‘Lucky Luciano’ – The Father of Organized Crime Won His Freedom by Helping the US Government during WW2

      December 22, 2017

    • M/Sgt Nicholas Oresko, Who Set Out Alone To Inspire His Men In The Final Year Of WW2

      December 22, 2017

    • Lightning Strike: Killing Admiral Yamamoto and Avenging Pearl Habor

      December 22, 2017

    • “What we went through” – James Belshe, WWII Veteran Earns Purple Heart for Injury Sustained in the Philippines

      December 22, 2017

    • Japanese-American Soldiers, The Nisei: The Purple Heart Battalion

      December 22, 2017

    • Franz Staudegger – German Tiger Ace in the Battle of Kursk

      December 22, 2017

    • The Luftwaffe Self Destruct Mission: Operation Bodenplatte – January 1st 1945

      December 22, 2017

    • The Russian KV Tank and Its Crew That Stopped The German Advance for a Full Day

      December 22, 2017

    • Stunning Must See Video Of A Dakota AC-47 T, Acting As Lethal Spooky Killer

      December 22, 2017

    • Robert Howard McCard dismantled a machine gun and again engaged the enemy mowing down 16 Japanese soldiers to ensure the safety of his crew

      December 22, 2017

    • The Youngest and Oldest Living Medal of Honor Recipients Both Jumped on Live Grenades

      December 22, 2017

    • A Tribute to a Fellow Warrior: How the Captain of the USS Missouri buried the remains of a Kamikaze Pilot with Honors, after he attempted to crash into his Ship

      December 21, 2017

    • Staff Sergeant William Bordelon: First US Marine from Texas to be awarded MOH

      December 21, 2017

    • 1st Lieutenant Victor Kandle: Medal of Honor Recipient in WWII

      December 21, 2017

    • Singing Waltzing Matilda, This Lieutenant Colonel Took Out 2 Machine Gun Posts With A Pistol & Grenades

      December 21, 2017

    • The One-Armed Warrior Who Was Awarded The Victoria Cross

      December 21, 2017

    • I-17 & the Shelling of the Bankline Oil Refinery – February 23, 1942 – by Martin K.A. Morgan

      December 21, 2017

    • “A War Overlooked” – W. Martin, WWII Veteran Performed Anti-Submarine Service Aboard Planes in the Caribbean

      December 21, 2017

    • The Battle of Tarawa: 76 Hours of Hell – 5,700 Dead for Twelve Square Miles

      December 21, 2017

    • The Story of Big Week: The Plan to Cripple the Luftwaffe, Some Say it Was a Waste of Men & Machines

      December 21, 2017

    • The Tragedy of Exercise Tiger: A Training Mission That Left More GIs Dead Than Utah Beach

      December 21, 2017

    • The ‘Cisco Kids’: Tuskegee Airmen brothers George and Arnold Cisco

      December 21, 2017

    • The American Fighter Pilot Who Served in Two Wars and Shot Down 16 Enemy Planes

      December 21, 2017

    • How the Finns Saved Helsinki from the Bombings of 1944 by using Cunning Deception Tactics

      December 21, 2017

    • Battle of Taranto – A Precursor to Pearl Harbor

      December 20, 2017

    • Winter War: The Finns Put Up a Tough Fight Against Their Soviet Invaders

      December 20, 2017

    • How British Intelligence Secretly Communicated With Men Inside POW Camps In WWII

      December 20, 2017

    • The Battle Of Athens – When WWII Veterans stood up to the corrupt Local Government in Tennessee

      December 20, 2017

    • The Last to Survive His OP, Sgt Ryan Pitts Was Awarded the Medal of Honor for their Memory

      December 20, 2017

    • Operation Unthinkable: How Winston Churchill intended to wage War with Stalin after Germany capitulated

      December 20, 2017

    • Jack Lucas: He Fought the US Marines to Get at the Japanese

      December 20, 2017

    • Hans-Ulrich Rudel – The Flying Tank Buster Who Flew More Than 2,000 Missions And Killed Over 500 Tanks

      December 20, 2017

    • The Tragedy of Lieutenant General Lesley McNair: The Highest Ranking US Soldier Killed in WWII

      December 20, 2017

    • The Laconia Incident: How Friendly Fire Changed POW Treatment for the Rest of the War

      December 20, 2017

    • Last Man Standing – The Lone German Soldier Who Held Off A Whole Wave Of Russian Infantry and Tanks

      December 20, 2017

    • World War Two – Three of Germany’s Top StuG Aces

      December 20, 2017

    • Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty – The Priest who Converted an SS Commander

      December 20, 2017

    • Ivan Pavlovich Sereda: the USSR’s Heroic Cook in World War Two

      December 20, 2017

    • Rommel Attacks El Agheila Fort – The Desert Fox In North Africa

      December 20, 2017

    • José Arturo Castellanos Contreras: The Latino Schindler

      December 20, 2017

    • 11 Countries Invaded by Nazi Germany And Why They Were Invaded

      December 19, 2017

    • Manned Torpedoes and Massive Ships – The Alexandria Raid Of WW2

      December 19, 2017

    • Lightning Strike: Killing Admiral Yamamoto and Avenging Pearl Habor

      December 19, 2017

    • Wounded and Outnumbered, This WW2 Hero Defended His Position and Was Awarded VC

      December 19, 2017

    • How Hitler Transformed the German Officer Corps Before and During WWII

      December 19, 2017

    • Five things Japan could have done differently, for a better chance of Winning in WWII

      December 19, 2017

    • A “mentally unstable, violent fanatic” – The Horrific War Record of Oskar Dirlewanger

      December 19, 2017

    • Giants of World War Two: Winston Churchill, “The British Bulldog”

      December 19, 2017

    • Fought Japanese in China When 15, Then Franco in Spain and In WWII Europe, Killed 6 Germans and Took 2 POW During a Heroic Charge, Awarded MoH in 1997

      December 19, 2017

    • Hero Of Guadalcanal: John Basilone, The Consummate US Marine In The Pacific

      December 19, 2017

    • On Crucifix Hill, Captain Bobbie Brown Destroyed Three Enemy Bunkers And Was Awarded The Medal of Honor

      December 19, 2017

    • Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz and the Danish Resistance in World War Two

      December 19, 2017

    • James H. Howard: The Only Fighter Pilot over Europe Awarded The Medal of Honor

      December 19, 2017

    • Gino Merli: A Scrappy Kid from Scranton who was awarded the Medal of Honor

      December 19, 2017

    • Lt. Gen Wainwright, Prisoner Of War, Who Was Awarded the Medal of Honor in WW2

      December 19, 2017

    • Fazal Din: the Man Who Fought on despite the Hole in His Chest

      December 19, 2017

    • The Heroic World War Two Volunteer – Charles Joseph Coward

      December 19, 2017

    • Medal of Honor – One American’s Daring Escape from German Soldiers In WW2

      December 19, 2017

    • Bolivian Boneyards Revisited. Part 1, El Alto Airport , La Paz, Bolivia – by Hans Wiesman

      December 19, 2017

    • He Was Awarded the Medal of Honor and then Demoted

      December 19, 2017

    • Operation Market Garden: The Assault that could have Changed the War

      December 19, 2017

    • The First Man to Sink a Japanese Warship – The Battle Of Wake Island

      December 19, 2017

    • Born to Fight – The Only Non-Commonwealth Recipient of the Victoria Cross

      December 19, 2017

    • Private Dirk J. Vlug: the Bane of Japanese Tanks – Fighting in the Philippines in WW2

      December 19, 2017

    • Presumed Dead, Eric Wilson was Posthumously Awarded the Victoria Cross

      December 19, 2017

    • Robert Anderson Hoover of Nashville, Tennessee: the Father of Aerobatics

      December 19, 2017

    • This Member Of The Nazi Party Became Known as a Modern Buddha

      December 19, 2017

    • Video Surfaces Of US Woman Carla de Vries Kissing Hitler at 1936 Olympics

      December 18, 2017

    • Roland Freisler – Hitler’s Screaming Nazi Judge

      December 18, 2017

    • Restoring Honor – The Americans Take Hill 609 in WW2 Tunisia

      December 18, 2017

    • “That’s how they did things” – Veteran shares story of WWII Navy service in the Pacific

      December 18, 2017

    • The Curious Tale of an Extremely Jinxed Ship – The USS William D. Porter (DD-579)

      December 18, 2017

    • The War Could Not Have Been Won Without This Wonderfully Simple Piece Of Design – The Humble Bailey Bridge

      December 18, 2017

    • Calvin L. Graham: America’s Youngest WWII Hero

      December 18, 2017

    • “I did my bit” – Veteran served as pilot with Army Air Corps during World War II

      December 18, 2017

    • When London Burned – 10 Extraordinary Stories From The Blitz In WW2

      December 18, 2017

    • Why the US Coast Guard Goes To (Mock) War With American Citizens Every Year

      December 18, 2017

    • Fast Facts – History of the Hand Grenade – An Essential Infantry Weapon In Modern Warfare

      December 18, 2017

    • Poetic Justice and the Plot to Kill Hitler

      December 18, 2017

    • Massively Super-Sized Siege Guns From World War One And Two

      December 18, 2017

    • Get Out of Jail Free – How Monopoly Helped Allied POWs Escape

      December 18, 2017

    • The Submachine Gun – An Infantry Weapon Which Changed The Face Of Warfare

      December 18, 2017

    • Life at Thélepte, a US Air Base in WWII North Africa in World War Two

      December 17, 2017

    • Alexander Bonnyman: From a Miner’s Life to the Pacific

      December 17, 2017

    • A Desperate Fight to the Death: RMS Carmania Vs. SMS Cap Trafalgar 1914

      December 17, 2017

    • Going Nuclear – Germany and Japan Fail to Build the Bomb in WWII

      December 17, 2017

    • The Polish Thermopylae: 800 vs 42,000 at Wizna, 1939

      December 17, 2017

    • Dawn of the Wolf Pack: October 18, 1940 – Germany Targets Allied Supply Routes in WWII

      December 17, 2017

    • The First Medal of Honor Recipient of WW2 Stood His Ground at Pearl Harbor

      December 17, 2017

    • Presumed Dead After Heroic Action In 1944, Air Force Academy Janitor Awarded Medal Of Honor From Reagan in 1984

      December 17, 2017

    • This Dentist Died In A Japanese Banzai Attack on Saipan But He Took Over 100 Enemy Soldiers With Him

      December 17, 2017

    • The Incredible Defence of Westerplatte – Gdańsk, Poland, 1939

      December 17, 2017

    • Marine John Basilone Would Decimate an Entire Japanese Regiment In the Pitch-Black Jungle of Guadalcanal

      December 17, 2017

    • Warren G. H. Crecy: the Baddest Man in the 761st

      December 17, 2017

    • The Myths Of The Montana Class Battleships

      December 17, 2017

    • Horrifying, Tragic, Inspirational – How the Nazis Destroyed Lidice and the World Preserved its Memory

      December 17, 2017

    • When Italy Destroyed More American Planes Than the German Luftwaffe

      December 17, 2017

    • The Assassination of The Butcher of Prague – Reinhard Heydrich

      December 17, 2017

    • The Devil of Rabaul: Japanese Ace of Aces With 88 Kills Who Died in the Passenger Seat

      December 17, 2017

    • Amazing Pics – Monstrous In Size, And Derelict For Decades, The Nazi-Era Resort Of Prora Finds New Life in Germany

      December 17, 2017

    • The Battle of Normandy – Original Color Footage

      December 17, 2017

    • The Berlin Special Forces Team Tasked with Nuking the Soviet Union

      December 17, 2017

    • “It all happened so fast” – Army veteran shares story of WWII service, Central Missouri Honor Flight

      December 17, 2017

    • The Invasion Of Europe At The Opening Of World War Two

      December 16, 2017

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

      December 16, 2017

    • Desperately Holding Near Arnhem, Major Robert Cain Used the PIAT to Perfection to be Awarded the Victoria Cross

      December 16, 2017

    • The Reluctant Hero Who was awarded a Victoria Cross… Twice

      December 16, 2017

    • Tony Stein – The Inventive Warrior – An amazing American Marine in WW2

      December 16, 2017

    • This German Flying Ace Saved an American Pilot; Years Later They Found Each Other Again

      December 16, 2017

    • The Daring Bruneval Raid To Capture German Radar Technology

      December 16, 2017

    • Vera Atkins: Incredibly Brave British SOE Squadron Officer of World War Two

      December 16, 2017

    • Japan Tried To Set The U.S. West Coast Ablaze in WWII- It Nearly Worked

      December 16, 2017

    • “I guess they didn’t know I was a Marine” – Heroism and Honor at Guadalcanal

      December 16, 2017

    • FUSAG: Patton’s D-Day Army That Didn’t Exist

      December 15, 2017

    • MoH: Private Towle of the 82nd Airborne Stopped a German Armored Counterattack in Holland with a Bazooka

      December 15, 2017

    • A Japanese grenade was headed straight for the hatch & meant certain death for the crew. Without regard for his own life, he covered the hatch with his body. The grenade exploded on Sgt. Timmerman’s chest

      December 15, 2017

    • Admiral Yamamoto, The Pearl Harbor Planner Who Believed Japan Would Lose

      December 15, 2017

    • Four Past & Present Battlefield Histories And Pictorial Guides from Casemate – Review by Mark Barnes

      December 15, 2017

    • Five Very Different Experiences On Five Very Different Beaches : Making History At The Legendary D-Day Landings

      December 15, 2017

    • Loyal To His Country – Missouri farmer served as munitions handler in Europe during WWII

      December 15, 2017

    • Not Just Tanks: WWI had more vehicles than we tend to think

      December 15, 2017

    • The Battle for Lake Tanganyika was one of the Strangest Battles of World War One

      December 15, 2017

    • The WW2 Sinking of Two Mighty Warships – HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse

      December 15, 2017

    • Harrowing Stories From Iwo Jima: One Man’s Life Onboard A Landing Ship Tank In 1945

      December 15, 2017

    • The Sinking of KMS Blucher At The Dawn Of World War Two

      December 15, 2017

    • How Churchill’s Relative Survived a Concentration Camp

      December 15, 2017

    • Although Steel Ruled The Waves, Wooden Boats Still Found A Place In WWII

      December 15, 2017

    • A Bridge Too Far: The Battle for Arnhem – At A Glance

      December 15, 2017

    • Nancy Wake – They Called Her The “White Mouse” – Incredible Allied SOE Agent of World War Two

      December 15, 2017

    • Rudolph Hess: The Nazi Who Flew to Britain in 1941 to try to Make a Peace Deal

      December 15, 2017

    • Gino Bartali – The Cycling Champion Who Helped Hundreds Of Jewish People Escape From Italy In WWII

      December 14, 2017

    • US Presidents Visit Normandy On The D-Day Anniversary, But President Eisenhower, Who Had Commanded The Allied Forces On That Fateful Day, Stayed Away On The 10th Anniversary

      December 14, 2017

    • Giorgio Perlasca – The Heroic Italian Businessman Who Saved Thousands Of Jewish People By Posing As A Diplomat

      December 14, 2017

    • Four Celebrities Who Risked Their Lives For Their Countries In Wartime

      December 14, 2017

    • Five Most Impractical German Inventions from World War Two

      December 14, 2017

    • Top Four Myths And Legends About The Nazis

      December 14, 2017

    • During The Fall of France In 1940, The French Were Led By Maurice Gamelin

      December 14, 2017

    • Five Weapons Responsible For The Deaths Of The Soldiers Who Used Them

      December 14, 2017

    • Wartime Movie Making – The Fleet That Came to Stay, 1945

      December 14, 2017

    • How A Small Group Of Canadian Paratroopers Saved Denmark From Soviet Occupation

      December 14, 2017

    • Aristides de Sousa Mendes Saved More People than Schindler but Died a Pariah

      December 14, 2017

    • Richard Ira Bong – The Deadliest American Pilot in WWII

      December 14, 2017

    • The Man Who Escaped 200 Times From A Nazi PoW Camp To Visit His Lover

      December 14, 2017

    • A WW2 US Coast Guard Hero – Securing the Ports Which Were Essential To D-Day’s Success

      December 14, 2017

    • When An American Submarine Took Out a Japanese Troop Train and Much More in the Pacific in WW2

      December 14, 2017

    • This Lieutenant Colonel Took Out Two Machine Gun Posts With A Pistol And Grenades, Singing As He Fought

      December 14, 2017

    • Edwin Swales VC: This Lancaster bomber pilot’s sacrifice saved his crew, when the wreckage of the plane was discovered, Swales was dead at the controls

      December 14, 2017

    • World War Two from Beginning to End

      December 14, 2017

    • Occult And Esoteric Practices – Four Nazis With Dark Links To The Occult

      December 13, 2017

    • “Hell’s Point” – The Battle of Alligator Creek In The Guadalcanal Campaign

      December 13, 2017

    • Irv Refkin – The American Jewish Hero Who Spied For The Allied Forces In World War II

      December 13, 2017

    • The Trumpets of Jericho – How the Luftwaffe Used Sirens Attached To Stuka Dive Bombers To Cause Panic And Fear Among Their Enemies

      December 13, 2017

    • While His Maniac Brother was Busy Killing Innocents, Albert Göring Worked Tirelessly to Save Them

      December 13, 2017

    • Operation Varsity – Crossing Of The Rhine In The Final Months Of WW2

      December 13, 2017

    • Divine Wind – Japan’s Deadly WW2 Kamikaze Pilots

      December 13, 2017

    • This Rogue Nazi General Committed High Treason To Stop The Reign of Terror in Croatia

      December 13, 2017

    • Japanese-American Kaoru Moto: Posthumously Awarded Medal of Honor For Actions In WW2

      December 13, 2017

    • Fearing Crash And Detonation On Takeoff, The First Atomic Bomb Had To Be Assembled In Flight

      December 13, 2017

    • Meyer Lansky – The American Jewish Mobster Who Hunted Down Nazi Sympathizers And Secured New York Harbor

      December 13, 2017

    • Georg “Bloodhound” Morgen – The Only SS Judge Who Brought Nazis To Trial

      December 13, 2017

    • The End of the 900 Day Leningrad Blockade – January 27, 1944

      December 13, 2017

    • SS-Standartenführer Joachim Peiper

      December 13, 2017

    • Erich Koch: Nazi War Criminal Who Tried to Evade the Consequences of his Crimes

      December 13, 2017

    • General Rommel And The Afrika Korps In Stunning Pictures

      December 13, 2017

    • Wounded in Action – Powerful German Officers of WWII

      December 13, 2017

    • The German Officer Who Sacrificed His Life In A Minefield To Save An American Soldier

      December 13, 2017

    • It’s Complicated: The Royal Navy Freed 299 POW But Caused Norway To Be Invaded By Nazi Germany

      December 13, 2017

    • SS Battlegroup Commander Otto Weidinger

      December 13, 2017

    • The Incredible Story of Sgt López, By the end, he had killed nearly 100 Germans, and his actions saved countless lives from K Company

      December 13, 2017

    • When Soldiers, Sailors, And Civilians Celebrated Victory in Europe with a Riot in Halifax

      December 13, 2017

    • March to Surrender: A German Operation in the Dying Days of WWII

      December 13, 2017

    • A Cameraman’s last picture – Tragedy as an Undetonated Bomb Explodes on the USS Oriskany (Watch)

      December 12, 2017

    • America’s First Ever Paratrooper Assault – Operation Torch

      December 12, 2017

    • A Desperate Fight to the Death: RMS Carmania Vs. SMS Cap Trafalgar 1914

      December 12, 2017

    • Malta: The Island Nation that Defied the Germans in World War Two

      December 12, 2017

    • When “Red Mike” Edson And His 800 Men From 1st Marine Raider Battalion Were Up Against 2,500 Attacking Japanese

      December 12, 2017

    • Heavy Losses, Great Heroism – The Iwo Jima Landings Were One Of The Most Important American Operations In The Pacific

      December 12, 2017

    • Notes From A Holocaust Survivor Found In Auschwitz Have Been Deciphered And Translated Into English

      December 12, 2017

    • In 1939, At The Opening Of WW2, Poland Fell Quickly To The German Army

      December 12, 2017

    • The Capture Of The Bridge Over The Rhine At Remagen, 7 March 1945

      December 12, 2017

    • The Battle of Tarawa: 76 Hours of Hell – 5,700 Dead for Twelve Square Miles

      December 12, 2017

    • The Long And Brutal Struggle For New Guinea In WW2

      December 12, 2017

    • This Sinister Revisionist In Japan Is Trying To Sanitize The Heartbreaking History Of Okinawa’s WWII Forced Suicides

      December 12, 2017

    • The Bravery Of This Japanese-American Soldier On His First Day Fighting In WW2 Is Astounding

      December 12, 2017

    • Karl Donitz, Commander in Chief of the Kriegsmarine, Was The Last President of Nazi Germany

      December 12, 2017

    • A Cameraman’s last picture – Tragedy as an Undetonated Bomb Explodes on the USS Oriskany

      December 12, 2017

    • Stories Of Humanity And Compassion From Throughout The Second World War

      December 12, 2017

    • A Massive Operation – Raising A U-Boat To Recover Her Precious Cargo

      December 12, 2017

    • After The USS Indianapolis Was Sunk, The Sailors Had To Survive The Worst Shark Attack in History

      December 12, 2017

    • Team Makes 3-D Map of WWII Plane Wreck in British Channel

      December 11, 2017

    • In Preparation For The Invasion Of Europe, The Allies Deployed Mathematics To Work Out How Many Tanks The Germans Were Producing Each Day

      December 11, 2017

    • Joseph Rochefort, American Code-Breaker, Predicted The Second Japanese Attack On The US In WWII

      December 11, 2017

    • The Great Los Angeles Air Raid Of World War Two – When Rumor Caused Panic In The “Battle” Of Los Angeles

      December 11, 2017

    • This Was The First Major Battle Between US And German Forces In WW2 – Kasserine Pass 1943

      December 11, 2017

    • With 8 Silver Stars and 2 Distinguished Service Crosses, General John Corley Was Born To Lead

      December 11, 2017

    • Ben Salomon, Hero Of The Battle Of Saipan, Was One Of Only Three Dentists To Be Awarded The Medal Of Honor

      December 11, 2017

    • Sad – Operation Tractable: When 150 Allied Soldiers Were Bombed By Their Own Planes

      December 11, 2017

    • The WW2 Hero Who Directed Tank Fire From The Turret Of A Sherman As The Battle Raged Around Him

      December 11, 2017

    • This Brave Pilot Climbed Out On To The Wing Of His Stricken Bomber At 13,000 Feet

      December 11, 2017

    • Francis Parsons and The Battle of Paardeberg in the Boer War

      December 11, 2017

    • An Amazing Story Of Close Combat Over a Small Tennis Court During WW2

      December 11, 2017

    • Operation Cobra – The Battle That Opened The Way For An Allied Victory In France

      December 11, 2017

    • POW James Risner: Attempted to destroy his voice by injuring his own throat. When that failed, he drank a paste made from soap

      December 11, 2017

    • The wounded Arkansas NFL Legend who saved his Battalion’s Position

      December 11, 2017

    • Retired Marine reunited with his M1 Garand after 56 years

      December 11, 2017

    • The Deadly Defiant, A Game-Changing British Warplane in WW2

      December 11, 2017

    • Meet Chief Dog Sinbad, The Cheerful and Brave Coast Guard Mascot of WW2

      December 11, 2017

    • Josef Allerberger and Matthäus Hetzenauer: Two Snipers with Over 600 Kills Between Them

      December 11, 2017

    • In These Battles, Fighting Spirit Overcame The Odds To Gain Victory

      December 10, 2017

    • 9 Feb 1945: Victory at the Colmar Pocket, Germans Eviction From The West Bank of The Rhine

      December 10, 2017

    • 2 February 1943 – The End Of The Battle For Stalingrad

      December 10, 2017

    • Jewish Lawyer Foiled Nazi Plans in LA During WWII

      December 10, 2017

    • Despite All Efforts, The Struggle Of The Allied Landings At The Anzio Ended In Failure

      December 10, 2017

    • Living A Quiet, Reclusive Life After Her Service, A Forgotten Heroine Of World War Two

      December 10, 2017

    • Live Bombs From World War II Still Being Discovered in Belgium

      December 10, 2017

    • How The Dutch Royal Family Was Evacuated To Britain In May 1940 Using The Bank’s Armored Car And a Destroyer

      December 10, 2017

    • Le Paradis – Where the SS Murdered 97 British Prisoners on May 27th 1940

      December 10, 2017

    • How 60 Coast Guard Cutters Saved Over 400 Men On D-Day

      December 10, 2017

    • John Baskeyfield VC: A Mighty Hero of the WW2 Battle of Arnhem

      December 10, 2017

    • The Battle of Crete Was The Reason Hitler Abandoned Parachute Assaults For Good

      December 10, 2017

    • The German WW2 Night Fighter Ace Who Shot Down 7 Lancaster Bombers In 19 Minutes

      December 10, 2017

    • Wounded and Outnumbered, This WW2 Hero Defended His Position and Was Awarded VC

      December 10, 2017

    • The American WWII Ace Who Shot Down 7 German, 1 Italian, 1 Japanese, And 1 American Plane

      December 10, 2017

    • After Pearl Harbor, A Japanese Pilot Crash-Landed On A Hawaiian Island And Tried to Occupy It

      December 10, 2017

    • Flying Tigers Veteran Glen Beneda Never Forgot How The Chinese Saved His Life, Nor Did They Forget Him

      December 10, 2017

    • John D. Bulkeley, Commander of the USS Endicott – A daring attack in WWII

      December 09, 2017

    • American Infantry Win The Fight for Sened Station, North Africa, In WWII

      December 09, 2017

    • The Remarkable Story of a Downed P-47 Pilot and the French Family That Took Him In

      December 09, 2017

    • Stille Hilfe: The organisation committed to supporting SS members facing punishment for their crimes.

      December 09, 2017

    • SOE Yvonne Burney, The Highly Decorated War Hero Who Survived a Nazi Death Camp

      December 09, 2017

    • An Unexpected Threat to the Success of D-Day: The Clues to a Crossword Puzzle

      December 09, 2017

    • By Sacrificing Himself Coastguard Douglas Munro Saved 500 Marines From Being Slaughtered

      December 09, 2017

    • Edward A. Carter, Jr. Received the Medal of Honor for Killing Six Soldiers and Using the Surviving Two as a Bodyshield

      December 09, 2017

    • Half Blind Japanese Pilot Flies His Damaged Zero For 5 Hours, Then Refused Medical Attention Before Making His Report

      December 09, 2017

    • U-Boat 96, and the film Das Boot

      December 09, 2017

    • Remembering the Reporter Who Dared Confront Emperor Hirohito

      December 09, 2017

    • Mighty WW2 Warships – KMS Admiral Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate

      December 09, 2017

    • Thaman Gurung, V.C. – grabbing a Bren gun, and as much ammunition as he could carry, he charged up the hill alone

      December 09, 2017

    • John D. Bulkeley’s Daring Evacuation of General Douglas MacArthur on a 77′ PT Boat

      December 09, 2017

    • After The Normandy Invasions Came The Long And Bloody Fight For France

      December 08, 2017

    • A Bridge Too Far: The Americans, And The True Story Of The 101st And 82nd In Operation Market Garden

      December 08, 2017

    • Wacko: When An American Submarine Took Out a Japanese Troop Train & Much More in the Pacific in WW2

      December 08, 2017

    • Amazingly Detailed D-Day Documents and Photos Sold in Auction

      December 08, 2017

    • One of The Most Remarkable Test Pilots Ever: Survived The Sinking of HMS Audacity & Flew over 480 Different types of Aircraft

      December 08, 2017

    • The Tragedy of the Destroyer USS Leopold

      December 08, 2017

    • Real Heroes of Telemark – When Commandos Stopped the Nazis Nuclear Bomb Project

      December 08, 2017

    • How The Stringbag, an Outdated Biplane, Took Out the Gigantic Battleship Bismarck in the Second World War

      December 08, 2017

    • The Human Bomb – The American Airman Who Jumped From Stricken B-17 Without A Parachute… And Survived

      December 08, 2017

    • The Woman Who Smuggled Over 2,500 Jewish Kids Out Of the Warsaw Ghetto In Suitcases or Medical Bags

      December 08, 2017

    • Surviving A Kamikaze Attack: A Story From USS Callaway During The War In The Pacific

      December 08, 2017

    • MoH & NFL Legend: “I saw him throw approximately 10 to 12 grenades, with German automatic fire and grenades coming back all the time.”

      December 08, 2017

    • Newsreel Footage – The Famous Doolittle Raid over Tokyo – Revenge for Pearl Harbor

      December 08, 2017

    • The Mysterious Disappearance Of The French WW2 Submarine Surcouf

      December 08, 2017

    • This British Major Brought An Umbrella To Arnhem Bridge, You Will Not Believe What He Did With It

      December 08, 2017

    • MoH: 8 German soldiers moved in to try to capture one wounded Edward Carter – It Didn’t End Too Well

      December 08, 2017

    • The Greatest Rescue Operation of WWII – It Almost Didn’t Happen

      December 07, 2017

    • Eddie Chapman – Nazi Germany’s Best Spy Was An English Double Agent

      December 07, 2017

    • How German U-boats Failed To Counter The American Landings In North Africa

      December 07, 2017

    • The Desperate Breakthrough at the Halbe Pocket – How A German General Neglected Hitler’s Orders to Save His Men

      December 07, 2017

    • Maximilian Kolbe: The Friar Who Died For Another At Auschwitz

      December 07, 2017

    • Code Name: Cicero,Elyesa Bazna was a ruthless WWII spy – His opportunity to make it rich evaporated, and he went back to working at odd jobs

      December 07, 2017

    • Operation Long Jump: German Plan To Kill Off His Enemies All At Once

      December 07, 2017

    • West Loch: The Pearl Harbor Disaster No-One Knows About

      December 07, 2017

    • Admiral Kimmel: The Scapegoat of Pearl Harbor – The Man Who Opened the Door for the Japanese Attack

      December 07, 2017

    • The Japanese destroyer circled the small LCP: Amazing Story Of Survival: American Coastguard Went Through Hell At Guadalcanal

      December 07, 2017

    • Battle of Taranto – A Precursor to Pearl Harbor

      December 07, 2017

    • Charity Edna Adams – the Highest Ranking African-American Woman During WWII

      December 07, 2017

    • The Bombing of Pearl Harbor – And The Exiled Queen of Holland, The First Female Billionaire

      December 07, 2017

    • A Date Which Will Live in Infamy: Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941

      December 07, 2017

    • A Bridge Too Far: The True Story Behind XXX Corps In Operation Market Garden

      December 07, 2017

    • Most believe that those at Pearl Harbor were the only casualties on American soil during WWII. Not true.

      December 07, 2017

    • Attack on Pearl Harbor – Awakening The Sleeping Giant

      December 07, 2017

    • Night Witches – Soviet Female Flying Aces Who Struck Terror Into the Hearts of the German Wehrmacht

      December 07, 2017

    • The B-17 seemed to be holding formation, he assumed that the pilot, at least, was alive. This American misfit saved his plane & was awarded The Medal of Honor

      December 07, 2017

    • Enlisted for one reason: Revenge. She fought Japanese in the Philippines, aided the resistance & resisted interrogation

      December 07, 2017

    • A plane found 38 feet under the ice: A Daring, High-Risk Rescue Attempt In Greenland In 1942 Has Come To Light Again

      December 07, 2017

    • The Notorious Klaus Barbie: The Butcher Of Lyon

      December 06, 2017

    • Alois Brunner: One Of The Most Notorious Nazi Officers – He Died Unpunished

      December 06, 2017

    • The Lapland War: The Fight For Finland To Leave The War

      December 06, 2017

    • The Most Expensive Wars The United States Has Been Involved In

      December 06, 2017

    • James Bond Author Ian Fleming’s Service In The British Intelligence During WWII

      December 06, 2017

    • Franz “The One That Got Away” Von Werra: Only German POW To Escape From Canada And Get Back Into The Fight

      December 06, 2017

    • The Rogue British Officer Who Broke All The Rules Founded The SAS And Was Nicknamed By The Germans, “The Phantom Major”

      December 06, 2017

    • Robert Cole, Hero Of The Carentan Bayonet Charge, Tragically Killed Two Weeks Before Being Awarded The Medal of Honor

      December 06, 2017

    • Shot Down Over France, Chuck Yeager Evaded Capture For Four Months And Then Flew Into History At The Speed Of Sound

      December 06, 2017

    • The Little Known Battles of Attu And Kiska: Retaking The Only US Soil Lost During WWII

      December 06, 2017

    • How A Japanese Sub Sank Three Ships With One Salvo In WW2

      December 06, 2017

    • Wacko: When An American Submarine Took Out a Japanese Troop Train & Much More in the Pacific in WW2

      December 06, 2017

    • ‘Corsair Fleet’ – The Brave American Civilian Crews Who Took On WW2 Submarines To Protect The Coast

      December 06, 2017

    • The Japanese Tried A Second Raid On Pearl Harbor – It Was Not A Success

      December 06, 2017

    • A Bridge Too Far: The Americans, And The True Story Of The 101st And 82nd In Operation Market Garden

      December 06, 2017

    • 10 Facts About Russian WW2 General Ivan Konev – Marshal & Hero of the Soviet Union

      December 05, 2017

    • The Vultee Vengeance – The Allied WWII Dive Bomber Developed To Rival The German Stuka

      December 05, 2017

    • When The Germans Desperately Needed To Counter The T-34, This Was Their Design

      December 05, 2017

    • John Capes, In WWII When His Submarine Sank He Swam 170 feet To The Surface and Swam 5 miles To Shore

      December 05, 2017

    • We Ask If Anyone Was Really Neutral During WWII – The Wartime Story Of Switzerland, Portugal And Sweden

      December 05, 2017

    • These High-Flying Pilots Were Top German Luftwaffe Aces Of WWII

      December 05, 2017

    • Joined the Marine Corps at 14, Medal of Honor by 17, This Marine Knows How to Get Things Done

      December 05, 2017

    • Tough Reading – A Nightmarish Place: The Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp

      December 05, 2017

    • Genocide And War Crimes – The Worst Japanese Massacres of WWII

      December 05, 2017

    • The Six Men Who Were Behind the July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler

      December 05, 2017

    • After The Normandy Invasions Came The Long And Bloody Fight For France

      December 05, 2017

    • Heinz Guderian, The Father Of The Blitzkrieg – The Officer Who Defied Hitler

      December 05, 2017

    • Sergeant “Smokey” Smith VC: “I Don’t Take Prisoners, I’m Paid to Kill Them”

      December 05, 2017

    • The True Story of Two American Fighters Who Took on the Japanese Attack at Pearl Harbor – Hungover

      December 05, 2017

    • The Amazing Story Of James Crotty, Who Single Handedly Won The Coast Guard A Battle Streamer

      December 05, 2017

    • A U-Boat captain and a US Coast Guard Cutter’s captain meet at the end of WWII

      December 05, 2017

    • Nazi Death Camp Guard brought to trial for crimes committed at Lublin-Majdanek

      December 04, 2017

    • “WW2’s Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails” – A new television series showcasing 4 daring escapes during WWII

      December 04, 2017

    • Irma Grese – The Blonde Beast of Birkenau and the Most Sadistic Woman in Nazi Germany

      December 04, 2017

    • Colorful And Impressive – American Wartime Posters

      December 04, 2017

    • Battle Of Savo Island Pacific – A Brutal Battle Of Naval Forces In The Pacific Campaign In 1942

      December 04, 2017

    • Hit By Shrapnel Which Almost Tears Off His Arm, Pries His Own Grenade From Now Useless Hand And Throws It At The Enemy

      December 04, 2017

    • Five Successful Missions Of The Waffen SS Mastermind, Otto Skorzeny

      December 04, 2017

    • The Amazing SOE Operation To Kidnap General Heinrich Kreipe From Crete

      December 04, 2017

    • When The Allies Attacked Oran And Were Annihilated By Vichy French Soldiers

      December 04, 2017

    • The Dog Who Went on Missions To Bomb Germany And Became A National Hero

      December 04, 2017

    • Two Amazing Stories From USCGC Escanaba – Heroism And Heartbreak In The North Atlantic, 1943

      December 04, 2017

    • The Heroic US Coast Guard Who Gave His Life To Save His Shipmates During A Desperate Rescue In WW2

      December 04, 2017

    • How Extraterrestrials Got Japanese-Americans Interned in 1942

      December 04, 2017

    • 10 Generals Who Led the Allied Invasion of Germany in WWII

      December 04, 2017

    • William Hitler, Nephew of Adolf, Joined the US Navy to Fight The Nazis in WW2

      December 04, 2017

    • He Was The Last Japanese WWII Soldier To Surrender – in 1974

      December 04, 2017

    • Private First Class Harold Agerholm: Medal Of Honor Recipient

      December 03, 2017

    • Original D-Day footage: US Troops Storm The Beaches Of Normandy

      December 03, 2017

    • Malta: The Island Nation That Heroically Defied Hitler’s Relentless War Machine In WWII

      December 03, 2017

    • Fleet Admiral Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief Was Fiercely Opposed to Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan

      December 03, 2017

    • Overrated Or The Only Man For The Job – The Meteoric Rise Of General Dwight D. Eisenhower

      December 03, 2017

    • The Japanese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Lives During WWII

      December 03, 2017

    • Korean Soldier Fought in Pacific, Eastern Front, and D-Day for Axis and Allies and 3 Separate Countries

      December 03, 2017

    • The Gray Ranks – The Fighting Boy-Scouts Of The Polish WWII Resistance

      December 03, 2017

    • Much More Than Code Talking – The Role of Native Americans in WWII

      December 03, 2017

    • The Early Days Of Drones – Unmanned Aircraft From WWI & WWII

      December 03, 2017

    • Reinhard Heydrich’s Mercedes – Found In A Garage, Carefully Restored, Then Sold at Auction

      December 03, 2017

    • 6 Great American Pilots of WWII’s African Campaigns

      December 03, 2017

    • The Day Japan Lost Her Airforce – “Why, hell, it was just like an old-time turkey shoot down home”

      December 02, 2017

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

      December 02, 2017

    • ‘Operation Mincemeat’ used a dead drunk’s corpse to fool the Germans in WW2, most amazing spy story

      December 02, 2017

    • When 20 Canadian Prisoners Were Murdered By The Waffen SS In Normandy – The Ardenne Abbey Massacre

      December 02, 2017

    • True: A Stranded Dutch Warship In WWII Disguised Itself As An Island To Evade Japanese Bombers

      December 02, 2017

    • The Secret Nazi German Weather Station In Canada, Discovered 38 Years After It Was Built

      December 02, 2017

    • Rudolf Hess: The British people “took care of me very well. They…put a rocking chair near the fireplace and offered me tea”

      December 02, 2017

    • General “The Auk” Auchinleck Squared Off With The Desert Fox In North Africa Before Being Fired by Churchill

      December 02, 2017

    • Kaiten: The Japanese Suicide Submarines in WWII

      December 02, 2017

    • Salon Kitty: The WWII Spy Ring Based in a Brothel – Heydrich needed to hire top-notch prostitutes

      December 02, 2017

    • Operation Werewolf: The Nazi Resistance an elite group of military men behind enemy lines, to operate secretly, using guerrilla tactics

      December 02, 2017

    • Two Years Before Filming It’s a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart was Bombing the Daylights Out of Germany

      December 02, 2017

    • The Defense of Brest Fortress In WW2 – “We’ll Die But We’ll Not Leave The Fortress”

      December 02, 2017

    • To Make Life Easier For The People Of Occupied Crete, The Allies Kidnapped The Nazi Commander

      December 02, 2017

    • Catch Me if You Can: Franz Von Werra The Only German POW to Escape From Canada and Get Back Into the Fight

      December 02, 2017

    • The Final Attempts On Hitler’s Life, Before He Killed Himself

      December 02, 2017

    • The Incredible Role of the International Red Cross and The Red Crescent Movements during WWII

      December 02, 2017

    • The Heroic US Coast Guard Cutter Crew Who Battled U-Boats In WWI – An Amazing Tale of Bravery

      December 02, 2017

    • The Panzer Attack on Faïd Pass – the most experienced forces in the region were about to hit the exposed French.

      December 02, 2017

    • Cresson Kearny – Nuclear War Survival Skills: It focused on what would happen if the US was affected by nuclear war

      December 02, 2017

    • All Along The Control Tower – Review by Mark Barnes

      December 01, 2017

    • US Veteran Returns Japanese Flag To Family Of Fallen WWII Soldier

      December 01, 2017

    • Allied Attacks on Japanese “Hell Ships” Unintentionally Killed Thousands of POWs in WWII

      December 01, 2017

    • The Amazing Life of General Douglas MacArthur – A Man In His Prime When His Country Needed Him, Not Everyone Feels the Same

      December 01, 2017

    • The Calm Before The Storm – What Patton Read On The Way To World War II

      December 01, 2017

    • With Every Other Senior Officer Dead, the Battle Control Officer of the USS San Francisco Waded through Waist Deep Water to Save the Ship

      December 01, 2017

    • First African American to be Awarded The Navy Cross Was a Cook Firing .50-Caliber Machine Guns at Japanese Bombers At Pearl Harbor

      December 01, 2017

    • Fighting in the Desert – The Battle for Sidi Bou Zid, Saint Valentine’s Day, 1943

      December 01, 2017

    • A Doctor Created A Fake Typhus Epidemic And Saved 8,000 People During WWII

      December 01, 2017

    • General James “Jumpin Jim” Gavin -the only general to make 4 combat jumps in the history of the US

      December 01, 2017

    • The Nuremberg Trials in 1945: The War Crimes Of The Wehrmacht

      December 01, 2017

    • Operation Halyard: An Airlift Operation That Saved 417 Allied Airmen In The Balkans

      December 01, 2017

    • MoH Ace: It was common for pilots to celebrate aerial victories over the airfield with a barrel roll for each one – he did 7

      December 01, 2017

    • The Operation Torch Atlantic Coast Landings

      December 01, 2017

    • Events on Cos, September 1943 – October 1945 – by Pietro Giovanni Liuzzi

      December 01, 2017

    • This Reindeer Battalion of WWII Was Braver than Soviets, Tougher Than Tanks

      December 01, 2017

    • Strategy of Fear: Doctors Tricked Nazis with Fake Epidemic and Saved 8000 Lives

      December 01, 2017

    • Ham & Jam – The Daring Glider Operation To Take Pegasus Bridge

      December 01, 2017

    • Awarded the Medal of Honor For Bravery, His Country Locked up His Family in an Internment Camp

      November 30, 2017

    • VC: Despite Being Shot And With His Plane On Fire, This Pilot Refused To Bail Out Without Taking Down A German Fighter

      November 30, 2017

    • The US Special Forces Major who fought in the SS

      November 30, 2017

    • “He gave his life” – Moniteau County, Mo., soldier killed during Battle of Leyte in World War II

      November 30, 2017

    • The Commando Raids On The Norwegian Coast That Tied Up 30,000 German Soldiers

      November 30, 2017

    • The Vultee Vengeance – The Allied WWII Dive Bomber Developed To Rival The German Stuka

      November 30, 2017

    • The Crews Gave So Much – Powerful Pictures of the American WW2 Plane, the B-17 “Flying Fortress” Bomber

      November 30, 2017

    • The Jewish Avengers: A Nazi’s Worst Nightmare, They Tried to Poison Hundreds of Nazi Prisoners After WWII

      November 30, 2017

    • Jumped Onto Another Bunker With His Flamethrower, Stuck The Nozzle Into Air Vent & Pulled The Trigger. There Were No Survivors

      November 30, 2017

    • When The Germans Desperately Needed To Counter The T-34, This Was Their Design

      November 30, 2017

    • Personal Items From WWII Discovered At Arnhem Bridge

      November 29, 2017

    • The Hardest Day: The Battle of Britain, When All Was Almost Lost

      November 29, 2017

    • John D. Bulkeley, Commander of the USS Endicott – A daring attack in WWII

      November 29, 2017

    • The Early Days Of Drones – Unmanned Aircraft From World War One And World War Two

      November 29, 2017

    • Wacko: The US Navy Destroyer That Sank A Japanese Submarine – With The Aid of Potatoes

      November 29, 2017

    • For Lt. Col. Merritt, WWII only lasted 6 Hours: But he was Awarded a Victoria Cross

      November 29, 2017

    • Three Ways Germany Weaponized Rockets in WWII

      November 29, 2017

    • Charles Rogers: Medal of Honor Recipient – Far too wounded to lead the counterattack again, Rogers continued to inspire and encourage his men in defense of the base

      November 29, 2017

    • The Cutting Edge Heinkel He162 Salamander – Another fascinating German Jet Fighter Concept

      November 29, 2017

    • The Fairey Firefly Recon Fighter – Fast Recon In WW2

      November 29, 2017

    • Grave Robbers Make Life Difficult for Volunteer Group Giving WW2 Soldiers Proper Burials

      November 29, 2017

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