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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…
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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…
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Schwerer 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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Simo 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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OSS: 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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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…
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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…
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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,…
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British 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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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…
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Focke-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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MG 42 – Hitler’s Buzzsaw
The design of the MG 42 began in 1937 by Mauserwork to substitute the MG 34. Although it possessed a…
Léo 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 cautiously approach the city under the cover of darkness. Crouching low beside the road, the commanding officer asks for two volunteers. For those who dare to step forward, the mission…
Schwerer 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 initially commissioned by Hitler to destroy the French Maginot Line; however, it was actually only used extensively in the siege of Sevastopol on the Eastern Front. Dismantled by the Germans…
German 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 the controls of his B-17 F, Ye Olde Pub. Nearly the entire 8th Air Force’s Bomb Group are headed towards Bremen to take out the Focke-Wulf plant on the outskirts…
Simo 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 knowledge that Häyhä could be out there waiting dipping them with a spectacular long distant shot earned him the nickname Belaya Smert, which is Russian for White Death. However, Häyhä’s…
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…
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 top weapon. What will it be? A bazooka? A flamethrower? How about a Sherman tank? No. This weapon has four legs, sharp teeth, and answers to the name Chips.
