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September 27, 2022Kurt Knispel – The Ace of Panzer Aces
Kurt Knispel is according to the books, the best tank ace with the most so-called kills, yet he is also…
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September 17, 2022The Heroic Stand of Audie Murphy at Holtzwihr
It’s January 26th, 1945. Just after 2:00 PM. The newly appointed company commander, Audie Murphy, and more than three dozen…
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August 15, 2022German Bf-109 Spares a Heavily Damaged American B-17 Bomber
It’s December the 20th, 1943 and in the freezing air high above Germany, 2nd Lieutenant Charles “Charlie” Brown is at…
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August 5, 2022Léo Major – The Sole Savior of Zwolle
It’s the night of April 13, 1945, in Zwolle in the Netherlands. Canadian soldiers from the Régiment de la Chaudière…
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July 28, 2022The Soviet Cook Who Captured a German Tank with an Ax
It’s the 2nd of July 1941. At a field kitchen in a forest near Dünaburg, Latvia. Ivan Pavlovich Sereda calmly…
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June 11, 2022Battle of Lanzerath Ridge – 18-man I&R platoon vs. 500 German paratroopers
On December 16 of 1944, 18 American soldiers from a reconnaissance platoon faced off against a German advance, outnumbered 27-to-one…
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May 31, 2022Operation Greif – Nazi in Disguise
Ardennes Counteroffensive Even though the Normandy landings in June of 1994 allowed the Allies to establish a foothold in Northern…
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May 26, 2022Fall of Tobruk 1942
In June of 1942, the German forces under the command of General Erwin Rommel were on the run from the…
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May 21, 2022Operation Vengeance – Killing Admiral Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto Isoroku Yamamoto was one of the most notable leaders of the Japanese Empire, and he is credited with…
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May 14, 2022Battle of Kursk – The Largest Tank Battle of World War 2
Preparing the Offensive The Fuhrer and the military command believed that during the first months of Operation Barbarossa, the city…
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May 6, 2022The KV-2 that single-handedly held up the entire 6th Panzer Division for a day
The Eastern Blitzkrieg After the annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and ultimately Poland, the United Kingdom and France decided to go…
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April 30, 2022Battle of Peleliu – Bitterest Fight for the Marines in World War 2
When US forces approached the tiny island of Peleliu inside the Japanese National Defense Zone in late-1944, the Imperial Japanese…
American Traitors – The Incredible Story of Martin James Monti
American citizens serving in Germany’s notorious SS, fact or fiction. Well, a little bit of both actually. During the war the Germans particularly the SS recruited vary widely and from all of the occupied territories they conquered. They also recruited from amongst their enemies and it’s well known that the…
SuperKiwi Charles Upham
New Zealand-born Charles Upham was and still remains the only combatant to receive two Victoria Crosses. During World War II while the nazis swept across Europe and Africa, Upham would enlist with the New Zealand Army and set sail in early 1941. In March 1941, second lieutenant Upham found himself…
Flak-Bait – The Bomber Plane that Survived a Total of 207 Missions
The most impressive thing about the twin-engine bomber is the amount of flak it absorbed while still somehow staying in the sky. As it conducted flights across Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands the aircraft was shot over a thousand times, twice the plane managed to return to base with…
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 picture. Initially, there’s nothing too special about it except that it shows what appears to be a crowd of fanatical Nazis giving the Hitler salute. And it wasn’t until the…
Fall of Tobruk 1942
In June of 1942, the German forces under the command of General Erwin Rommel were on the run from the British 8th Army. The Allies had recently liberated Tobruk from a famous eight-month siege in which the heroic actions of the 9th Australian maintained the port in Allied hands against…
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…











