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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…
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…
Stopping the Nazi Atomic Bomb
The Plan Due to its relative inaccessibility, means of infiltrating the plant were limited and dangerous. The bridge across the valley below the plant was heavily guarded and the mountains above had been rigged with landmines. Bombing the plant was out of the question, both due to risk of civilian…
Ghost Plane of the Libyan Desert: Lady Be Good
Following years of fighting across the harsh terrain of North Africa, in May 1943, the German and Italian forces which still remained there surrendered to the Allies. A month earlier the 514th Squadron of the 9th Air Force was stationed at the Soluch Air Base near the town of Benghazi…
The 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 American GIs lay down on the snow-covered ground near the town of Holtzwihr in Alsace, France. In the distance, thundering booms from the German artillery are followed by eerie hissing…
Operation Vengeance – Killing Admiral Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto Isoroku Yamamoto was one of the most notable leaders of the Japanese Empire, and he is credited with planning and executing the attack on Pearl Harbor, a preemptive strike against a neutral country that was judged a war crime at the Tokyo Trials once the war was over.…
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…











