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Top 5 American Tanks of World War 2
Before World War II, the United States Army thought the mission of the tank was to support infantry. The job…
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5 Most Brilliant High Commanders of World War 2
Sun Tzu, one of the world’s most legendary military strategists, wrote: "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.…
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The man who refused to salute Hitler
If you frequent the internet and especially websites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, you have undoubtedly seen the following…
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Nazi Germany’s Master Interrogator Hanns Scharff
Imagine that you’re in the middle of the Second World War and a Prisoner of War is brought to you.…
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Horrific Experiments of Unit 731
Unit 731 was the brainchild of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. It was a biological and chemical…
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War Dogs of World War 2
Sicily, July 1943. American soldiers are pinned down by heavy fire from an Italian pillbox. Time to bring forward their…
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The Women Who Flew For Hitler
Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were the only two women to serve the Nazi Third Reich as test pilots…
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Operation Haudegen – The last German soldiers to surrender after World War 2
On the 7th of May 1945, German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied…
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M3-M3A1 “Grease Gun”
In 1941, the US military began looking for an alternative for the Thompson submachine guns. In December of 1942, they…
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Virginia Hall – The most feared allied spy in World War 2
The most feared allied spy in World War 2 was a woman. She was an American named Virginia Hall who…
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Dietrich von Choltitz – General who refused to burn Paris to the ground
Hitler's Third Reich was rapidly crumbling before his very eyes; the vast empire that had once spanned from Tripoli to…
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Operation Tidal Wave – Blowing Up Hitler’s Gas Station
Before entering World War II, the U.S Army Air Corps, which in 1941 became the Army Air Forces, developed and…
Horrific Experiments of Unit 731
Unit 731 was the brainchild of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. It was a biological and chemical warfare research unit that conducted experiments on prisoners with the aim of developing deadly weapons. It’s written that at its base in China – remember the Japanese were at war…
British Commandos
Commandos are actually used by the British before Dunkirk. Looking into unconventional warfare for the Military Intelligence Research department, researchers were interested in a different type of soldier. By the spring of 1940, they have approval to recruit 10 new ‘guerrilla companies’ from other army units. British troops lined up…
Yugoslav Resistance – Partisans and Chetniks
After the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the kingdom is carved up by the four antagonists: Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria. What was one country is now divided into nine different territories. Large parts are occupied or annexed, such as Slovenia by Germany and Italy, parts of Serbia by…
Virginia Hall – The most feared allied spy in World War 2
The most feared allied spy in World War 2 was a woman. She was an American named Virginia Hall who worked as an undercover agent. But her career almost never happened. At just 27, Hall lost her leg in a hunting accident. Undeterred, Hall spent a year learning to walk…
SAS Raid on Sidi Haneish
By early 1942, the tide was starting to turn for the British in North Africa. As over 70% of supplies going to General Rommel’s Afrika Korps and his Italian allies were being sunk crossing the Mediterranean. As a result, the Germans employed more Luftwaffe aircraft to move supplies and these…
The Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp
On the 25th of April 1945, Germany had been cut in two when American and Soviet troops linked up at the town of Torgau on the Elbe River. The following day U.S. Forces had crossed the Danube, Neuburg, Ingolstadt and Kelheim. Dachau concentration camp was severely overcrowded due to the…
