The Allies allegedly dropped fake bombs on a fake Nazi airfield
The story began as a bizarre but hilarious urban legend of fake bombs by the Allied military forces in World War II, but it began to catch on as more…
The story began as a bizarre but hilarious urban legend of fake bombs by the Allied military forces in World War II, but it began to catch on as more…
“In view of the friendly feeling towards America entertained by a great number of citizens of Italy,” President Franklin Roosevelt wrote in a telegram to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill,…
Outside of Lawrence of Arabia, the Middle East Theater of World War I is an often underreported area of the Great War, but much of what happened during that time…
Since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, Taliban leaders have raked in millions through sales of opiates and passports and by renting out construction equipment prior to the World Cup. Despite this profiteering,…
The special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States is a relatively recent relationship. During the Civil War, things were much less cordial and often downright hostile. Yet,…
Millionaire scientist and Wall Street tycoon Alfred Lee Loomis who personally funded scientific research at his private estate and later went on to lead radar research efforts during WWII.
But the technological developments of Tuxedo Park did…
Amidst the last months of World War II from February 13-15, 1945, Allied armies bombed the historic city of Dresden in eastern Germany. The Dresden Firebombing is viewed as a…
On March 18, 1915, Allied forces attacked the narrow, strategically critical Dardanelles. A strait in northwestern Turkey, the Dardanelles was the only waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea Black Sea and…
In 1940, Hitler and the Nazis rolled up western Europe, culminating with the Fall of France. The capitulation of the French government left Britain alone to stand against the Nazis….
On March 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans and called upon them to serve in World War I. While under Spanish rule, Puerto Rico fought…