Category: War Stories

There were also women who did equally brutal things in the Nazi concentration camps but were often overlooked for some reason. Here are some of them that you probably have never heard of before.

There was a debate on whether the tornado spared Washington from the British or if it actually helped them ruin the city.

One of the biggest factors not known to many was the vast and wide-ranging list of rules that the soldiers had to follow, all while trying to fight for their lives, known as the rules of engagement.

Would you take Sears products as a form of payment for your spying works like these agents did during Vietnam War?

Maj. Peter J. Ortiz and three others went on a mission and made the Germans believe they were fighting a battalion of Marines.

The anti-magnetic mine coating that the Germans added to their tanks turned out to be unnecessary.

Mary Crabb was an abandoned baby during WWII, but thanks to three Canadian soldiers who found and saved her, her life was changed forever.

It was not unusual for officers to get recommendations for awards like the British’s Victoria Cross… unless it was from the enemy.

Perhaps it was Hitler’s fascination and hunger for technological advancement, or maybe it was his desire to reign over the world and mass murder people. Whichever it was, it led to the creation of one of their most daring, ambitious, and uncalled-for weapon ideas: The sun gun.

The scorched earth tactics have been used for the longest time, back from the Scythians, and the latest one being the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Here are some of those lesser-known and never-realized operations and projects during the Second World War.

The Japanese soldiers on Ramree Island during the nearing end of World War II had a dilemma that resulted in the deadliest crocodile feast ever.