Category: WORLD WAR II

WW II: Meet Lepa Radić, The Badass 17-year-Old Girl That Died Fighting Nazis The Balkan states of Southeastern and Central Europe were conquered and unwilling subjects of foreign powers for six hundred years. First the Ottoman, and the Austro-Hungarian Empires. The dream of a single state for ethnic Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had been around for some two hundred years at […]

WWII aircraft buried by sand discovered on English beach after 76 years With decades of natural ebb and flow, the sands at Lincolnshire Cleethorpes Beach, England have just uncovered the wreckage of a World War II fighter plane. In April 1944 the Royal Air Force plane crashed after taking off a nearby village called North Coates, according to Fox News. For locals, […]

Eastern Front Battlefield Relics – The Amount Left Behind is Incredible The war on the Eastern Front, known to the Russians as the “Great Patriotic War”, was the scene of the biggest military confrontation in history. Over the course of four years, more than 400 Red Army and German divisions have clashed in a series of operations along a front […]

The Night Witches: The All-Female World War II Squadron That Terrified The Nazis The women of the Soviet Air Forces’ 588th Night Bomber Regiment — better known as the Night Witches — have no radar, no machine guns, no radios, and no parachutes. They had only one map, a compass, rulers, stopwatches, torches and pencils. Yet over the course of four […]

AKTION T4 THE NAZI EUTHANASIA PROGRAMME THAT KILLED 300,000 Both before and during the Holocaust, the Nazi authorities carried out a massive but lesser-known program of targeted mass killing targeting some of the most vulnerable people under their control: the disabled. Starting as a euthanasia program that eliminated disabled infants and children deemed unfit to live and expand in time […]

During World War II Japan “bombed” China with fleas infected with Bubonic plague The story of World War II has been heard so many times that it can be easily to forget that the general public often does not know some of the most obscure horrors of war. For example, few know that in the final year of the war, Japan developed […]

World War II: The Battle of Wizna – Around 800 Polish soldiers held off 42,000 Nazi soldiers for three days The “Battle of Wizna” took place between September 7 and September 8. It is often referred to as “the Polish Thermopylae,” a reference to three hundred Spartans, who bravely held off an enormous Persian army in Ancient Greece. Polish historian […]

The WWII Dentist Who Killed 98 Japanese Soldiers Before Being Shot 76 Times Benjamin Lewis Salomon was a Jewish American dentist and soldier. He was born on September the 1st, 1914, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the fall of 1940, he was ordered to report for induction into the Army and Dr. Ben Salomon became an infantry private. From humble beginnings […]

Underground Nazi weapon factory discovered by the Allies was one of the most extraordinary finds of World War II On the morning of April 11, 1945, the American 3rd Armored division and the 104th Infantry Divisions found a hidden Nazi underground factory. It was one of the most extraordinary finds of World War II. The factory was called Mittelwerk, and […]

Ancient ruins of Pompeii ‘hiding 10 unexploded WW2 bombs’ dropped during Allied invasion of Italy Every now and again, real-life archaeology sounds a little like an Indiana Jones movie. Allied bombers dropped 165 bombs on the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. In the latest discovery of dormant bombs in Europe, at least 10 unexploded bombs are reportedly still buried underneath […]