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The 5 most bizarre weapons of World War II
Unfortunately, war can drive innovation. During World War II, the world's major powers set their sights on advancing technology, medicine, and communications in order to be efficient and fearsome in...
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These 4 Marines killed so many Germans, the Nazis thought they were an allied...
On Aug. 1, 1944, less than two months after D-Day, Marine Maj. Peter J. Ortiz, six Marines, and an Army Air Corps officer parachuted into France to assist a few hundred French resistance fighters known...
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Meet the world's deadliest female sniper who terrorized Hitler's Nazi army
In early 1941, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was studying history at Kiev University, but within a year, she had become one of the best snipers of all time, credited with 309 confirmed kills, 36 of which were...
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America's wars have introduced thousands of words to English usage in the US
Throughout history, American speech has adopted soldier-coined slang into everyday language.Speech, much like the world, is in a constant state of flux. The way that wars alter the world, they also...
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8 American military legends who were honored as foreign knights
American military heroes typically spend a lot of time fighting in other countries. The leaders of those countries can give medals or official thanks, but sometimes they induct American warriors into...
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These are the incredible armored trains of World War I and World War II
Trains may seem pretty mundane in the 21st century when compared with jet aircraft.These days, trains play a small role in transporting Americans. Things are a bit flashier in Europe and Asia, where...
View ArticleAnimated map shows every nuclear bomb explosion in history
On July 16th, 1945, the United States conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing...
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That time the British burned down fake cities to fool German bombers
Luftwaffe navigators flying over 1940s England had few tools to ensure their bombs were striking the right bases and cities. They used maps, compasses, airspeed indicators, and aerial photographs to...
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The British had a flying jeep during World War II
How many of you science fiction buffs have fantasized about zipping around town in your very own flying car? Sure, a trip in a helicopter or airplane has now become the standard or even mundane mode of...
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All of the ways US intelligence thought Hitler may try to disguise himself...
Fearful that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler would attempt to flee Germany, US intelligence tried to predict what the Führer would look like if he altered his appearance.The Office of Strategic Services, a...
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Israel's Prime Minister is getting slammed for statements linking a 1940s...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was pounded Wednesday with a barrage of condemnations after he claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler only decided on the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews after...
View ArticleIsraeli Prime Minister Netanyahu claims a Muslim convinced Hitler to kill Jews
Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is coming under fire from Holocaust experts after he claimed that Adolf Hitler never wanted to kill Jews, but was convinced to do so by a Muslim...
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The real dangers of Netanyahu's troubling statements about the Holocaust
Most anyone familiar with the give and take of discourse on blogs and social media knows about Godwin’s Law. Godwin’s Law is the proposition that the longer an online discussion takes place, the...
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Why Hitler was such a successful orator
"I know that men are won over less by the written than by the spoken word, that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great orators and not to great writers."—Adolf Hitler, "Mein...
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The man who held off 6 enemy tanks and waves of infantry for an hour by...
Today I found out about Audie Murphy, the most decorated U.S. World War II veteran.Murphy was born on June 20, 1925 in Texas. His family was extremely poor, partially due to having twelve young mouths...
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The Japanese created stealthy submarine aircraft carriers during WWII
After masterminding the attacks at Pearl Harbor, Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto knew that his country’s dominance of the Pacific Ocean would not last against the U.S.’s industrial might.He began...
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The story behind dazzle ships, the Navy's wildest-ever paint job
In 1917, while Britain's Royal Navy was plagued by Germany's formidable U-boat offensive, visual artist Norman Wilkinson realized that traditional camouflages wouldn't help British ships avoid the...
View ArticleA new book claims that the pope tried to kill Hitler
Pope Pius XII was reviled for his silence in the face of Nazism during and after World War II, and was thus often dubbed "Hitler's Pope."However, a new book, "Church of Spies" by Mark Riebling, claims...
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11 quotes that show the great leadership of General George Patton
Gen. George S. Patton was a complicated military figure, but there can be little debate over whether he was quotable.Perhaps most famous for his commanding of the 7th Army during World War II, Old...
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These Japanese bombers attacked targets with rocket-propelled people
Kamikaze attacks — known as “special attacks” by Japan — were an infamous tactic designed to not only destroy American ships but also strike fear in the Allied navies.But two months before the first...
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