Why British paratroopers relied on the ingenious Gammon bomb
A paratrooper invented the Gammon Bomb to fit a very specific use case. Paratroopers needed to kill Nazis of all types with just one kind of bomb. So they made…
A paratrooper invented the Gammon Bomb to fit a very specific use case. Paratroopers needed to kill Nazis of all types with just one kind of bomb. So they made…
It was the pivotal battle that most historians believe turned the tide against the Nazis for good in World War II, resulting in a cascade of defeats as the Wehrmacht beat its retreat to Germany from the Soviet Eastern Front.
But it wasn’…
The “Sonderkommando Photographs” are the only known photos taken of the gas chambers and cremation pits at Auchwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp. Shot by a Greek prisoner, the four photos were smuggled to the Polish Resistance where the…
Nazism has always been a cancerous growth that infects everything around it. There was nothing the Socialist National German Workers’ Party wouldn’t do to erase Judaism from the face of…
Although the Japanese feudal period ended at the turn of the 17th century, isolationist policies delayed the country’s advancement compared to western nations. The shogunate and samurai culture persisted until…
On Nov. 16, 1940, the Royal Air Force bombed the German city of Hamburg. The Battle of Britain began the summer before, with the German Luftwaffe launching large scale attacks…
There’s a reason Germany’s enemies called the MG42 “Hitler’s Buzzsaw.” It could fire 1,200 rounds per minute, twice the rate of the M1919 Browning Machine Gun and it did it…
The 20th Century wasn’t a bloody, violent century because there were more wars or more people around to fight them. One of the first wars of the century ushered in…
The idea of putting weapons on aircraft to strike ground targets is not a new one. Although the concept has culminated in the deadly AC-130 gunship today, it was employed…
Red lipstick is nothing less than a power move. For centuries, women have worn it to express themselves, and the shades are as varied as their meanings: confidence, sensuality, strength, courage, playfulness, and even rebellion. Dita Von Teese once …