The True Story of One Family’s Escape from the Nazis When Hanka was a small child, her family lived in a close-knit Jewish community in the city of Kraków. Their...
Japan Was Stunned When One U.S. “Destroyer Killer” Sub Sank 5 Ships in Just 4 Days In the long and unforgiving history of submarine warfare, there existed an unspoken rule...
What Japanese Commanders Really Thought About US Marines At 06:15 on the morning of August 21, 1942, Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki stood at the edge of a coconut grove on Guadalcanal,...
The American Division That Wiped Out 13,000 Germans Captured 90,000 — With Only 1 Man Taken Prisoner At 6:47 on the morning of December 26, 1944, Lieutenant Colonel Creighton Abrams...
What Japanese Generals Said About American Firepower — After It Was Too Late On the morning of September 2, 1945, the prediction came true. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had been dead...
German Pilots Mocked The Tuskegee ‘Red Tails’ — Then U.S. Aces Racked Up Over 100 Kills On July 2, 1943, over the skies of Sicily, a German Focke-Wulf Fw...
Japanese Pilots Laughed At The F6F Hellcat, Until It Swept Their Zeros From The Sky On September 1, 1943, at Rabaul airfield on New Britain, Lieutenant Commander Saburō Sakai paused...
When German POWs Reached America It Was The Most Unusual Sight For Them On June 4, 1943, at the Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia, Unteroffizier Hermann Böttcher gripped the ship’s...
Von Rundstedt Told German High Command ‘Make Peace You Fools’ 25 Days After D-Day At 17:40 on July 1, 1944, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt lifted the telephone receiver...
On a golden afternoon in June 1986, twelve-year-old Emily Grace Whitmore laced up her brand-new pink and turquoise rollerblades and set off down the tree-lined streets of Rockford, Illinois, headed...