Category: War Stories

Whenever we hear the name Coco Chanel, there are only a few things that come to mind: high-street fashion. But Nazi spy? This is what we will cover in this piece. 

To a guy named Bill Tutte, his solution to stopping the Nazis was not weapons or treaties but numbers, and it worked.

Although the main operations and battles of WWI happened in Europe, there were also other nations who fought gallantly in the war.

Charles’ last name was Coward but if there’s one word that could describe this British soldier of World War II, that is definitely not that.

Despite her seemingly innocent and gentle appearance, Fawcett was credited with an action that would make her outstanding and worthy of admiration: She was credited with identifying the message that led to the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. Here’s how she did it.

How long do you think a lone tank could survive stuck in a territory infested with enemies amidst nonstop shelling? Probably an hour? A day?

For the crew of the HMS Grasshopper, their mascot dog was an English pointer named Judy. As it turned out, she would soon become the British POWs’ morale booster and only POW dog of WWII.

In the past wars, there were quite a number of MWDs that became famous, and for good reasons. One of them was a four-pound Yorkshire terrier named Smoky.

For Horace Greasley, the fact that the Second World War was raging on, or that he was a PoW, did not stop him from seeing his beloved. That’s how he ended up escaping and coming back about 200 times from the Nazi camp.

For the crew of Operation Render Safe, their “another day at work” is diving for wrecks under the sea or digging the soil in hopes of finding unexploded bombs of World War II.

Throughout time, different deceiving tactics have been made during wars. Some of them worked, others were ridiculous, and there are a few that were ridiculous but worked.

One of their streamers of the USCG was the “Defense of the Philippines,” and this one was pretty special because the only reason they had that was for one person: Thomas Crotty. Here’s how he earned it.