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Dec 1, 2022

Why German veterans of Stalingrad broke their infantry assault badges

There are very few battles in the history of warfare that have the enduring legacy of the Battle of Stalingrad….

Dec 1, 2022

Nov 13, 2022

That time Russian troops repelled Germans with just their mangled faces

Built in the 19th century, the Osowiec Fortress was constructed by the Russian Empire in what is now eastern Poland as a way to defend its borders against the Germans. On September 1914, German forces turned their attention to the fortres…

Nov 13, 2022

Nov 10, 2022

These 4 Marines killed so many Germans, the Nazis thought they were an allied battalion

On Aug. 1, 1944, less than two months after D-Day, Marine Maj. Peter J. Ortiz, five other Marines, and an Army Air Corps officer parachuted into France to assist a few hundred French resistance fighters known as the Maquis in their fight against the…

Nov 10, 2022

BYChuck Lyons

Nov 7, 2022

That time a Nazi captain recommended HMS Glowworm captain for the Victoria Cross

“The lights went out, the ship rolled and tossed and suddenly seemed to settle well on her starboard side,” stoker Bert Harris later said. “The Germans had shot us to pieces.” “Abandon ship!” HMS Glowworm was lost, b…

BYChuck Lyons

Nov 7, 2022

Oct 16, 2022

The Air Force’s first chief of staff, Carl Spatz, snuck to the front to kill 3 Germans

He would later be the first top officer of the independent U.S. Air Force, a job he earned partially by leading the Allied air forces against Germany and Japan, but in World War I Carl Spatz was just a captain in charge of America’s aerodrome in Fr…

Oct 16, 2022

Oct 6, 2022

This World War II German ‘Suicide Squad’ is just as horrifying as you’d think

During World War II, the Germans – especially their piece of trash leader – wanted a “suicide squad” that would…

Oct 6, 2022

Oct 5, 2022

How an English lady ensured Britain could hold the Germans off in World War II

Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, Lady Houston wasn’t born with those titles. She was actually born in 1857 into a large,…

Oct 5, 2022

Oct 1, 2022

How an 83-year-old Russian led an invading enemy right into an ambush

No matter how many times history proves it, invading enemies still trust Russian peasants to help them and it always…

Oct 1, 2022

Nov 28, 2022

This is why the ‘Bouncing Betty’ was absolutely devastating

Developed by German Engineers during the 1930s as a defensive strategy of the Third Reich, the self-contained anti-personnel mine was originally named Schrapnellmine or S-Mine. Considered one of the deadliest tools on the battlefield, the French fir…

Nov 28, 2022

Sep 22, 2022

Reminder that the Nazis made a top general kill himself

Erwin Rommel entered France in 1940 in command of a panzer division, moving around the Maginot Line with the bulk of German attackers and slamming into the French defenses from behind. He would go on to lead troops in North Africa as Hitler’s favor…

Sep 22, 2022

Sep 11, 2023

This Russian-born FBI agent was the bureau’s spycatcher

George Tromiloff was a retired U.S. Army officer who had been passing information onto the Soviet KGB for decades.