Category: Odd Facts
Incident at Launceston – How Racial Tensions Among GIs in Great Britain Led to Armed Confrontation
“Riding on the tide of simmering racial tension in U.S. training camps and explosive riots in five American cities during the long hot bloody summer of 1943, this enmity inevitably floated across the Atlantic with…
Who Would Be a Nazi? – Historian Explores What Drove One Seemingly Ordinary German Into the SS
“Griesinger’s story offers a chilling reminder of how ordinary people, not monsters, made the Nazi regime and its heinous crimes.” By Daniel Lee PORTRAYALS IN popular culture of the infamous Schutzstaffel or SS generally paint…
Nazi Agents in Iran – Hitler’s Middle East Spy Ring and the Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill & Stalin at Tehran
“These two novice secret agents would play key roles in laying the groundwork for one of the most audacious covert operations in World War II: the Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill and Stalin.” By…
Swamp Rescue – The Daring Mission to Extract a Bomber Crew Shot Down Over New Guinea in WW2
“Since Barnett had landed far from a major river for a Catalina flying boat to carry out an extraction, an overland rescue was planned instead.” By Bas Kreuger EARLY ON THE morning of July 27,…
Flight F-BELV – The Mystery of the Only Lost Plane Never Recovered from the Vietnam War
“Why did it take the authorities three decades to renew its interest in the incident?” The 1954 Geneva Accords partitioned Vietnam into two countries: the communist North and the western-aligned South. International Commission for Supervision…
The Great Game – How Errors and Miscalculation Drove Britain and Russia’s 19th Century ‘Cold War’ in Asia
“An examination of historical records reveals that the assumptions that were being made in both London and St. Petersburg about the intentions of the other side were frequently wrong, sometimes with tragic consequences.” By Riaz…
