Category: War Stories

During the Second World War, evacuation ships were among the vessels that played a vital role in tending to the sick and injured troops.

MSgt. Vito Bertoldo is the Most Badass Medal of Honor recipient, having to defend a vital CP by himself in 1945 near Hatten, France.

Joseph Rizzo, the Executive Director of Loudoun Museum, shared the fateful life of political prisoners in Loudoun County during the Civil War

Travis Shaw, the Education Director of the Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area, recounted the fateful luck of Luther Slater during the Civil War.

Just like historian Dana Shoaf found Nevin’s diary, Confederate Col. Elijah V. White stumbled upon the lost Union soldier by chance.

Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum Director Anne Marie Chirieleison tells us the brief history of Harrison Hall in the American Civil War period.

The legendary story of two friends, Union Gen Hancock and Confederate Gen Armistead, torn apart at the turning point of the Civil War.

The Special Interrogation Group (SIG) was one of the British troops’ ambitious and daring units of World War II.

Because of his hands-on approach as a Nazi commander, it was no surprise that Erwin Rommel brushed skin with death numerous times. Here were some of those instances.

The concept is simple: Hand-held weapons that could slash, pierce or shatter the enemies’ bones. Through time, civilizations began experimenting and developing these melee weapons to make them efficient and effective in killing enemies.

Popular Olympics was the first boycott attempt in the history of the Olympics after it was decided to be held in Berlin.

Pigeons were trusted enough during the Second World War in an operation rarely talked about: Operation Columba.