World War II

WWII helicopters were used for troop transport, casualty evac, airborne command posts, SAR operations, and attacking ground targets.

This is the alleged story of a Korean who fought not only under one or two but three sides of war during the messy times of World War II.

With the shortage of materials necessary for war, the US government asked for public help and was diligently answered in the patriotic act to help in the effort.

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