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McNamara’s Morons – The Low Intelligence Soldiers Used as Guinea Pigs in the Vietnam War

Project 100,000 In 1966, Robert McNamara announced Project 100,000, not so much to meet the escalating requirements to keep America[…]

Wehrmacht too Harshly Not all Germans in World War II were “Nazis,” and there were even Germans in the Wehrmacht[…]

Foreign SS Volunteers Like most things in life, World War 2 can’t simply be painted over in black and white.[…]

Heavy Panzer Battalions A German heavy panzer battalion (schwere Panzerabteilung) was an elite battalion-sized World War II tank unit of[…]

Berghof. Situated in Obersalzburg In the dying days of the Second World War in Europe, Hitler was cooped up in[…]

America’s Brown Water Navy In the Vietnam War, the US Navy used a variety of different gunboats to patrol the[…]

Waffen-SS Grenadiers Unbelievable but true – an entire unit of former Waffen-SS Grenadiers were retrained and deployed by the Americans[…]

Special Forces Rescued Mussolini In 1943, the tide of World War II was turning against the Axis Powers as Mussolini[…]

Killer Balloons Find out how Britain used weather balloons as weapons in WW2 in a massive aerial offensive against Germany.[…]

German Pocket Battleship Discover the truly extraordinary story of the forgotten German pocket battleship that today lies buried under a[…]