Did You Know a Man Died During WW2 Because he resembled Churchill? This story reminded me of the classic 1976 WW2 Movie The Eagle has Landed (based on the novel by Jack Higgins) where a body double was used for Churchill as a lure for a possible kidnap attempt. In the movie, the body…
Category: World War II History
Know Your WW2 Naval History: Hunting the Bismarck – Part I
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…
Know Your Obscure WW2 History: Boeing Wonderland
Did You Know About the Boeing Wonderland? World War II saw numerous innovative attempts to confuse the enemy through camouflage: by hiding one’s assets from detection, while creating fake units elsewhere to misdirect the enemy’s attention. (You might recall one of our older articles about the Germans disguising the battleship Tirpitz as a group of houses. Read our earlier…
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…
Obscure WW2 History: Jap Lunge Mines and Banzai Sticks
Jap Lunge Mines and Banzai Sticks – Last Ditch Weapons in WW2 During World War II, the ancient Samurai moral code of honor, obedience, duty and self-sacrifice found its way into Japanese military tactics, particularly during the last desperate months of the empire of the Rising Sun. Beyond the high-profile Kamikaze air strikes, the…
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…
In Memoriam: Lt. Commander Lou Conter, USN
Last survivor of Japanese attack on USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Lou Conter, dies at 102 Like most men of his generation, Lt. Commander Conter was duty driven, fearless and tough as boot leather. I urge all you guys to read his story, it is truly amazing.
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…
Race Realism: Hidden, Suppressed History of the Red Terror in Post-WWI Europe
Hidden, Suppressed History of Red Terror in Post-WWI Europe With the latest series of events involving police yokelism and the false Hegelian race and political dialectic, we must remember that one of the agendas of the Crime Syndicate is to bring police under centralized, national control. They do this by making local law enforcement…
When Tommy was Betrayed
Via: Europe Renaissance Tommy, you did rather well, So, pat yourself on back, Your rulers pillaged most the world, But now this world comes back, To taunt your sons and daughters, It’s karma for disgrace, It’s your land that now is colonised, By every creed and race. You left your…