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 […]