Hunting the Bismarck – Part I Without doubt, the Bismarck is the single best-known German warship of World War II. Large, fast, hard to sink and equipped with the latest in German radar and optics technology, it quickly earned notoriety after it sank the HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy. The panicked British response eventually brought low the German monster, but only after…
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Know Your USMC History: The Frozen Chosin
Battle of Chosin Reservoir: One Marine’s Survival Story The Battle of Chosin Reservoir was one of the most brutal battles of the Korean War. In November and December of 1950, the massively outnumbered United Nations forces fought both frigid weather and the attacking People’s Volunteer Army. Chinese troops outnumbered the Allied forces — for…
The Truth about Vlad the Dragon
Count Dracula’s War on Islam
Know Your WW2 History: The M8 Greyhound
The M8 Greyhound Armored cars tend to be overlooked by World War II history buffs. Nimble fighter planes, deadly bombers, hulking tanks and stealthy submarines are “sexier” than a car that can’t fight like a tank, can’t race a plane, and can’t use terrain to its advantage like infantry. Nevertheless, armored cars were a vital part…
History was Shaped by the Horse’s Ass
History was shaped by the Horse’s Ass I DIDN’T KNOW THAT: The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that’s the way they built the railways in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads….
Know Your History: British Pogrom of 1947, aka ‘British Night of Broken Glass’
The English ‘Crystal Night’ No One Dares Mention What follows is an account of the anti-Jewish pogrom that occurred in Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool in August 1947. At the time, Britain still occupied Palestine and Jewish terrorists fought to replace the British colonizers. This is despite the British armed forces having recently fought National…
FUSA Bulletin: The End Result of Open Borders
New York Home Depot Hires Guards with German Shepherd to Deter ‘Aggressive’ Migrants and Thieves For all my fellow students of history you all can see where this is going right? If you thought the Post 9/11 Patriot Act/Security State was enormous, wait until you get a load of this BEAST. The Great Replacement…
On This Day in History 1865: Lincoln is Shot & The South is Avenged
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Defending Dixie’s Land: What Every American Should Know About The South And The Civil War
History Shows Us the Way
H/T Wynn Armor of Emperor Ferdinand I 1503-1564, Nuremberg, 1549.
Know You Real WW2 History: Hitler the Artist
A Great Artist whose Name you Dare not Speak Long before his party’s election in January 1933, Adolf Hitler earned a living by using his artistic skills to produce paintings that sold to the public or were used as illustrations for postcards. The future German statesman was a gifted student of the fine arts…