Patton rubò 400.000 galloni di carburante contro gli ordini — e la sua armata attraversò il Reno prima del previsto. hyn
The convoy was moving without authorization. That is the fact the supply officer recorded in his log at 0340 hours on August 30th, 1944 and then crossed out. The entry still exists. The crossing out is visible. What the log…
Gli proibirono di modificare la mitragliatrice — finché non eliminò 32 soldati giapponesi . hyn
He bled out in 4 minutes while his assistant gunner, Eddie Briggs, watched helplessly. Whitaker had shown Briggs photographs of his daughter that morning. She was three. July 2nd. Sergeant Mike Dunphy from Chicago Heights set up in a defensive…
Perché Eisenhower rifiutò di stringere la mano al generale tedesco Jodl: la resa incondizionata di Reims. hyn
On May 6th, 1945, in Reims, France, a dull, gray, rainy day marked a pivotal moment in history. Inside a small red brick schoolhouse, the fate of the world was being decided. This was the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied…
La resa senza combattimento: come Patton costrinse un intero reggimento tedesco ad arrendersi in 48 ore . hyn
The white flag looked small from a distance. It flickered in the cold March wind, a square of bedsheet torn clean along one edge and tied around a broken broom handle. It rose slowly above the German trenches like…
Quando ogni quinto colpo esplode: la notte in cui il BAR trasformò la guerra nella giungla . hyn
Quando ogni quinto colpo esplodeva: la notte in cui il BAR cambiò la guerra nella giungla Nel novembre del 1944, sull’isola di Bougainville, la giungla sembrava respirare insieme alla paura. L’aria era densa, immobile, carica dell’attesa di qualcosa che tutti…
Dalla gloria immaginata alla realtà imposta da Patton. hyn
Part 1 By May 1945, western Germany looked less like a country than the aftermath of a fever. The roads were still there, if you were generous enough to call them roads. They ran through blasted villages, broken farms, and…
Patton contro l’imprevedibile: come anticipò l’offensiva delle Ardenne. hyn
Perché Patton fu l’unico generale a prevedere l’attacco tedesco Alle 14:47 del 9 dicembre 1944, il colonnello Oscar Koch entrò nell’ufficio di George Patton tenendo una cartella con entrambe le mani, come se potesse esplodere se avesse allentato la presa….
When the Nazi concentration camps were discovered…
In the final months of World War II, many believed the nightmare was finally over. But then Allied soldiers began opening the gates to places the Nazis had never wanted to see. What they found there were camps filled with…
This Finnish farmer killed 542 soldiers – and none of them ever saw who was shooting.
At 6:47 a.m. on February 17, 1940, Corporal Simo Häyhä lay motionless in a snowdrift, 150 meters from a Soviet supply route near Kollaa, Finland. He observed a Red Army patrol of 12 soldiers marching through the frozen forest. The…
A former SS general reportedly fled after the Liberation of Paris; an Argentine hacienda discovered 80 years later.
In August 2024, while surveying a winery in Mendoza province, Argentina, a drone team detected unusual signals emanating from underground structures never previously listed in official construction records. The estate, covering approximately 230 acres, belonged to a legal entity registered…