Stories
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Operation Vengeance – Killing Admiral Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto Isoroku Yamamoto was one of the most notable leaders of the Japanese Empire, and he is credited with…
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Battle of Kursk – The Largest Tank Battle of World War 2
Preparing the Offensive The Fuhrer and the military command believed that during the first months of Operation Barbarossa, the city…
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The KV-2 that single-handedly held up the entire 6th Panzer Division for a day
The Eastern Blitzkrieg After the annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and ultimately Poland, the United Kingdom and France decided to go…
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Battle of Peleliu – Bitterest Fight for the Marines in World War 2
When US forces approached the tiny island of Peleliu inside the Japanese National Defense Zone in late-1944, the Imperial Japanese…
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Stopping the Nazi Atomic Bomb
The Plan Due to its relative inaccessibility, means of infiltrating the plant were limited and dangerous. The bridge across the…
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Flak-Bait – The Bomber Plane that Survived a Total of 207 Missions
The most impressive thing about the twin-engine bomber is the amount of flak it absorbed while still somehow staying in…
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Schwerer Gustav – The Largest Gun Ever Built
Schwerer Gustav, or the “Heavy Gustav,” was the largest and most powerful gun used in World War II. It was…
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Simo Häyhä – The World’s Most Successful Sniper in History
The invading Soviet soldiers grew to be straight-up terrified of Häyhä. Having to patrol the blanched Finnish wilderness with the…
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OSS: The Forerunner of the CIA
In 1940, the British set up an organization known as the Special Operations Executive or SOE. This was responsible for…
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The Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp
On the 25th of April 1945, Germany had been cut in two when American and Soviet troops linked up at…
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