World War II

You think just keeping your rack made and your uniform squared away in the military is a pain in the ass? Try sticking it out in a steaming jungle on orders to remain in place, as Lt Onoda of the Imperial Japanese Army did. For 30 years.

The Rape of Manila: a brutal WWII battle with 100,000 to 500,000 casualties and widespread atrocities by the Japanese.

The USS O’Bannon was known for a lot of achievements, one of which involved attacking a Japanese submarine with her crews breakfast.

In conjunction with our last article about the Great Raid at Cabanatuan last year, here is a comprehensive historical read to commemorate the most successful POW rescue mission in U.S. military history. At this moment, a historic brotherhood was born.

The pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima died in 2007 but no gravestone was ever erected for him.

The Goliath tracked mine vehicle was a lesser-known anti-tank destroyer in WWII. It didn’t catch on, but here’s why it’s important!

In observation of the recent International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we bring to you an unsung Holocaust hero that history books often leave out. This is a story of a British banker who took a two-week holiday to Prague in 1938 in what was then Czechoslovakia and left with over 669 Jewish children, saving them from […]

The air war over Europe was a bloody affair for Allied pilots flying bombing missions over occupied Europe and Germany. Large bomber formations were savaged by flak and/or German fighters. Losses were so heavy that any crew that survived 25 missions were sent home. Few did. Things would soon change, however, as the P-51 Mustang […]

With just forty-four men dressed as American soldiers, SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny’s commando unit wreaked havoc and confusion behind U.S. lines in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge that began on December 16th, 1944

Historians tend to lay most of the blame for Nazi atrocities at the feat of the Waffen SS, but the “Wehrmacht” or regular army was more than capable of rapacity and mass slaughter as well. Especially the anti-partisan units the Germans sent to occupy Greece in WWII.

Hollywood might often showcase submarines hunting down and attacking other submarines, but it’s actually been a very rare event in history.

The flamethrower could kill in more ways besides immolation. An extremely effective way of clearing defensive positions its use as a weapon is now banned.