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“Get on Your Knees and Look Up at Me” — What Happened Next Left Japanese Women POWs Ashamed
Only sound exists in this darkness. The howl of Texas wind cutting through canvas. The mechanical hum of a generator somewhere in the distance. The…
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Japanese Woman POWs Were Shocked When American Soldiers Stayed Beside Them All Night
She was taught that American soldiers would violate her before sunrise. But when sunrise came, the only thing she received was a cup of hot…
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The ‘OVERGUNNED’ British Destroyers Germans Refused To Fight One On One
April 13, 1940. The offjord, northern Norway. Five British tribalclass destroyers, HMS Cosac, Bedawin, Punjabi, Eskimo, and seek push into the narrow fjord at 30…
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“Stay Still and Don’t Scream” — Japanese Women POWs Never Forgot This Order
Lie on this table, don’t scream. Five words, English. But Ko Tanaka heard them in Japanese, translated by the voice she’d been warned about for…
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The 96 Hour Nightmare That Destroyed Germany’s Elite Panzer Division
July 25th, 1944. 0850 hours. General Litnant Fritz Berline crouched in the rubble of what had been his forward command post. The bombing had been…
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German Ace Returned to Base and Discovered 5,000 Luftwaffe Planes Destroyed in Just 7 Days
January 15th, 1945. Eric Hartman, the Luftvafa’s greatest fighter pilot with 352 confirmed aerial victories, more than any pilot in human history, was returning to…
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The ‘Abandoned’ American Fighter That British Pilots Flew Into The Most Dangerous Skies On Earth Be
October 1941, RAF Duxford. Pilots of 601 Squadron, the famous Millionaires Squadron gathered around their new American fighters. These were Battle of Britain veterans, men…
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NANCY WAKE: The Gestapo hunted her for 2 years — SHE CYCLED 500KM PAST THEM
The road was empty. It was a clear afternoon in the summer of 1944, and a woman was cycling alone through the French countryside. She…
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The Plane That Failed As A Bomber — And Became America’s Best WW2 Hunter !
There is a story buried inside the history of World War II aviation that almost nobody tells in full. It begins with a passenger plane…
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They Doubted This Engineer’s Design — Until She Sank Seven Ships Without Losing A Single Man !
On the night of the 9th of November 1941, somewhere in the dark waters between Sicily and North Africa, seven ships were burning on the…
- Engineers Called His P-51 Paper Fuel Tanks “Impossible” — Until He Destroyed 5,000 German Planes-ZZ
At 6:47 p.m. on October 14th, 1943, Colonel Cass Sheffield Huff stood on the flight… Read more: Engineers Called His P-51 Paper Fuel Tanks “Impossible” — Until He Destroyed 5,000 German Planes-ZZ - Japanese Couldn’t Stop This Marine With a Two-Man Weapon — Until 16 Bunkers Fell in 30 Minutes-ZZ
At 0900 on February 26th, 1945, Private First Class Douglas Jacobson crouched behind volcanic rock… Read more: Japanese Couldn’t Stop This Marine With a Two-Man Weapon — Until 16 Bunkers Fell in 30 Minutes-ZZ - Germans Couldn’t Stop This ‘Modified’ Jeep — Until It Killed 400 of Them on the First Day-ZZ
At 0530 on December 16th, 1944, First Lieutenant Lyall Bu crouched in a frozen foxhole… Read more: Germans Couldn’t Stop This ‘Modified’ Jeep — Until It Killed 400 of Them on the First Day-ZZ - Germans Couldn’t Recognize This ‘Secret’ Tank — Until It Destroyed Their Best Panther-ZZ
At 0742 on March 6th, 1945, Corporal Clarence Smooyer crouched inside the turret of an… Read more: Germans Couldn’t Recognize This ‘Secret’ Tank — Until It Destroyed Their Best Panther-ZZ - When Japanese Planes Attacked This ‘Secret’ Ship With 120 Rockets — Its Captain Saved 300 Lives\-ZZ
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ At 0635 on June 11th, 1945, Lieutenant Richard Mcool stood in the conning tower… Read more: When Japanese Planes Attacked This ‘Secret’ Ship With 120 Rockets — Its Captain Saved 300 Lives\-ZZ - Germans Set This B-17 on Fire With Bombs Inside — Until Its Pilot Saved His Crew One-Handed\\-ZZ
At 11:37 on February 20th, 1944, First Lieutenant William Loi sat in the left seat… Read more: Germans Set This B-17 on Fire With Bombs Inside — Until Its Pilot Saved His Crew One-Handed\\-ZZ