Category: War Stories

The birth (and death) of the Balloon Corps would be the base of what soon would become the Air Force that we know.

Of all the possible reasons that high-ranking SS and police officer Reinhard Heydrich could’ve died, the reason for his death was for sure unexpected.

The extremely wealthy and legendary US General George Patton had his trusty supplier of equipment when WWII broke out: Sears.

Was it right to assume that all those more than 3,000 kids were orphans and not some children who got lost and with parents waiting to find them?

The Swiss Pikemen were both feared and respected throughout Europe, and for good reasons.

The battlefield was no place for pulling off bunnies from hats and some other magic tricks, but Jasper Maskelyne proved it could be.

During World War I, the British military imposed height limits. This, later on, resulted in the establishment of unique battalions called the Bantam Battalions.

Most tanks could be traced back to their sole ancestor: Little Willie. We often hear it being credited as the very first tank that was built in 1916 by Britain. This was only partially true.

During the Winter War, hunger got the best of the Red Army, and they were left vulnerable. The reason: Sausages!

Due to the lack of knowledge yet on how to properly handle radioactive materials, the US government conducted experiments on human test subjects by injecting them with plutonium without their knowledge.

When the United States entered World War II, instead of rolls of toilet paper, the crisis was with meat.

There were weird tanks made in the past, and then there’s Kugelpanzer. An enigma that no one had quite figured out yet what the whole thing was really for.