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BYTeam Mighty

Jun 23, 2023

Today in military history: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is killed, sparking WWI

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophia were shot to death, sparking WWI.

BYTeam Mighty

Jun 23, 2023

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 19, 2023

Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music was a hardcore naval combat veteran

In the 1965 film The Sound of Music, Captain von Trapp ran a tight ship at home. He also ran a tight ship at sea, commanding two U-Boats for the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I. By the war’s end, he was the most decorated naval …

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 19, 2023

BYMiguel Ortiz

Feb 28, 2023

The two von Trapp brothers from ‘The Sound of Music’ served in the 10th Mountain during WWII

The Trapp Family Singers are one of the best known families in America, and perhaps the world, for their depiction…

BYMiguel Ortiz

Feb 28, 2023

BYAlex Hollings

Jun 28, 2021

How the Allies used math to save bomber crews during WWII

When retelling stories of war, our focus tends to fall where the action was. Tales of battlefield bravery have been around for as long as there has been language and battlefields, but securing victory over a powerful foe requires more than the stren…

BYAlex Hollings

Jun 28, 2021

BYBethaney Phillips

Mar 11, 2021

Germans helped U.S. troops save this Austrian castle during WWII

Called “the strangest battle of World War II” is the Battle of Castle Itter. Staged at a beautiful Middle Ages-era…

BYBethaney Phillips

Mar 11, 2021

BYBlake Stilwell

Aug 20, 2020

Austria gave the Ottoman Turks the greatest taunt of all time

Simply put, the 1529 Siege of Vienna did not go the way the Ottoman Empire hoped it would. Sultan Suleiman I, the Magnificent, was coming off a fresh string of victories in Europe and elsewhere when he decided that the road to an Ottoman Europe had …

BYBlake Stilwell

Aug 20, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

Arnold Schwarzenegger drives the same tank he trained on in the Army

It’s not bravado, it’s not some Hollywood publicity stunt, and it sure as hell isn’t special effects. Arnold Schwarzenegger not only owns a tank, he knows how to drive it and operate it in every possible way. It wouldn’t have done him much good …

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

That time the Austrian Army defeated itself

There has been no friendly fire incident in the history of the world like the 1788 Battle of Karansebes. The Austrian Army had been at war with the Ottoman Turks for more than a year when another contingent of Austrian soldiers stumbled upon another…

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Awesome photos of snipers on high-angle shoots

Military snipers from several NATO countries recently practiced high-angle shooting in the Austrian Alps. Snipers from Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, the United States, and other NATO countries practiced th…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 5, 2020

What life is like for 10 countries with mandatory draft

A recent report shows that the US is looking into its draft program, weighing options from mandating service for women to getting rid of…

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 5, 2020

BYPaolo Ricci

Sep 12, 2019

Mountain fighting was hell for Italy’s elite WWI shock troops

World War I’s western front stretched from the English Channel to the Adriatic Sea and passed through the Italian Alps. The soldiers there were miserable and the conflict was characterized by long, bloody deadlock. Life for soldiers of the It…

BYPaolo Ricci

Sep 12, 2019