Category: History

The Bethke brothers who, for several years apart on three occasions, fled and crossed that iron curtain. They were Ingo, Holger, and Egbert.

James Forrestal knew the wonders that ice cream could do in cheering someone up, so he made sure that the sailors would not be without ice cream.

No one wanted to be in the Auschwitz camp, except maybe prisoner number 4859 who volunteered himself to be locked up in that infamous camp.

At work, there’s this accidentally-sent-an-email-without-the-attachment kind of mistake, and then there’s this I-almost-blew-up-the-President-of-the-United-States mistake.

A girl named Maria Zaharia, 12 at that time, died helping the Romanian Army just before the Battle of Mărășești.

These machines used before radar became a thing were rather interesting-looking.

Did the US military hesitate to throw away $10 million worth of vehicles to make room for more refugees?

It was not uncommon for the top military commanders and presidents to have disagreements and clashes at times. Here are instances when presidents fired military officials.

When watchmaker Praesidus reached out to us about their watches, I had to admit I was intrigued. But, they didn’t just have a watch they wanted us to see; they wanted to tell us a story about the watch and the paratroopers who inspired Praesidus to make them. Tom Rice was an accomplished athlete at […]

This is the alleged story of a Korean who fought not only under one or two but three sides of war during the messy times of World War II.

Chiune Sugihara decided that he would stand and help the Jews during WWII. His main weapon? Travel visas.

When it comes to creating weapons to annihilate adversaries, we sure can count on how the ancient people effectively forged some of the most formidable and fearsome weapons.