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April 19, 2022Stopping the Nazi Atomic Bomb
The Plan Due to its relative inaccessibility, means of infiltrating the plant were limited and dangerous. The bridge across the…
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April 17, 2022Flak-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…
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April 11, 2022Schwerer Gustav – The Largest Gun Ever Built
Schwerer Gustav, or the “Heavy Gustav,” was the largest and most powerful gun used in World War II. It was…
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April 4, 2022Simo Häyhä – The World’s Most Successful Sniper in History
The invading Soviet soldiers grew to be straight-up terrified of Häyhä. Having to patrol the blanched Finnish wilderness with the…
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March 26, 2022OSS: The Forerunner of the CIA
In 1940, the British set up an organization known as the Special Operations Executive or SOE. This was responsible for…
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March 19, 2022The 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…
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February 26, 2022SAS Raid on Sidi Haneish
By early 1942, the tide was starting to turn for the British in North Africa. As over 70% of supplies…
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February 19, 2022Yugoslav Resistance – Partisans and Chetniks
After the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the kingdom is carved up by the four antagonists: Germany, Italy, Hungary,…
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February 10, 2022British Commandos
Commandos are actually used by the British before Dunkirk. Looking into unconventional warfare for the Military Intelligence Research department, researchers…
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February 1, 2022Vasily Zaitsev – Sniper Hero of Stalingrad
“Shoot with a steady aim and look your prey in the eye. You’re not a boy anymore.” Those are the…
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January 23, 2022Focke-Wulf Fw 190 – The Butcher Bird
When the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 first saw combat in 1941, it was an instant success and inflicted heavy casualties upon…
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January 19, 2022MG 42 – Hitler’s Buzzsaw
The design of the MG 42 began in 1937 by Mauserwork to substitute the MG 34. Although it possessed a…
 
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 perfected a particular attack method. It consisted of high-altitude, daylight mass precision bombings of enemy military and industrial structures. This doctrine combined with the British Royal Air Force’s specialty on…
Operation Greif – Nazi in Disguise
Ardennes Counteroffensive Even though the Normandy landings in June of 1994 allowed the Allies to establish a foothold in Northern France, Belgium, and its immediate surroundings, the situation in the rest of Europe was still far from secure. Supply lines opened up through the channel at Normandy, but the further…
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…
Vasily Zaitsev – Sniper Hero of Stalingrad
“Shoot with a steady aim and look your prey in the eye. You’re not a boy anymore.” Those are the words his grandfather had said to Vasily when he turned 12 in 1927. Zaitsev came from a family of hunters, living on the bank of the river Saram-Sakal, in the…
Battle 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 of Moscow would fall to the unstoppable German forces. But they quickly discovered that they had underestimated the Soviet population. Despite successfully encircling and crushing multiple Soviet Armies that surpassed…
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…











