Remembering Max Wolf – How One German From Brazil Became a Hero by Fighting Nazis

“He became a legend among the ordinary soldiers of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force.” By Mary Jo McConahay THEY GREW UP in a part of the world where young men joined Hitler Youth organizations, where the…

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The Bomb That Wasn’t Needed – Allied Intel Agencies Had News That Might Have Prevented the Atomic Age. Sadly, They Didn’t Share It

“For well over a year, Churchill’s government knew that Berlin would have no bomb, but it let the U.S. work on in the dark.” By Peter Watson IN MID-1942, just as the Battle of Midway…

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Sunset Cruises – The Remarkable Voyages of History’s Last Sailing Warships

“While ship-builders would continue to add sails to their designs for decades to come, by the 1830s most naval powers were busily retrofitting their existing wooden sail fleets with boilers, engines, paddles and screws.” FRANCE’S Valmy…

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Animals at War – Check Out These Amazing Tales of Four-Legged Heroes from Military History

“When humans charge into battle, invariably animals go with them.” By Robin Hutton ANIMALS HAVE BEEN a part of war for as long as humans have fought each other. From Hannibal’s elephants and the camels…

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Broken Bombers – How the U.S. Military Covered Up Fatal Flaws in the B-47 Stratojet with Disastrous Results

“Those B-47s exploding over America could hardly be denied for long.” By H. Bruce Franklin IT WAS JUST supposed to be a routine training flight, not one of our highly classified Arctic missions refueling warplanes…

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Ordeal at Allerona – GI Recounts Death-Defying Escape from POW Train in Italy

“The American airmen had just arrived on a mission to blow up the Allerona bridge at the moment we were passing over their target.” SIX YEARS AGO, MilitaryHistoryNow.com published an article about some of the…

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