Category: War Stories

Howard Hughes started a notorious aircraft project called the Hughes H-4 Hercules, a wooden amphibious aircraft better known as the Spruce Goose.

While many were devastated upon receiving the news of their loved ones’ death, a Soviet housewife did not waste her time sulking upon hearing her husband’s death; she instead got herself a T-34 tank to hunt down and kill the Nazis.

Halloween is still pretty far, but that would not stop us from telling some of the spooky and chilling stories of the Civil War.

The POWs of Camp Sumter were captured and taken to the enemy prison camp to be forced into labor, starved, and tortured.

They say that the most painful betrayal comes from the one you trusted the most, and Hitler knew exactly how that felt.

History and reality in general are full of “story” holes that we don’t really expect to happen in reality, but they did, and the military world is full of that.

Since the Civil War, Alcatraz had held captives on its heavily-secured island in the middle of San Francisco Bay.

Around 2,000 women underwent training to become sharpshooters when the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany. It turned out, they were really good at it.

The VARTA is a type of armored personnel carrier developed in Ukraine. The crew within the vehicle is protected from armor-piercing incendiary ammunition of up to 7.62 millimeters thanks to the particular quality of steel used in the construction of the vehicle compartment.

A cruise of weapons on the Ukrainian combat zones was covered in a special report prepared by SOFREP in 2015. To date, the Ukrainian Forces are magnifying the use of these weapons to fire back against the assaults made by Russian soldiers on its continuing conflict.

According to statements made by both nations, they conducted the exercises with the intention of “jointly dealing with maritime security threats.”

When the German bombings started in Paris, the remaining workforce did what they could with what they had to save the landmarks and artworks.