πΈ Women at War
The Chocolate-Eating Tank That Survived Four Direct Hits
The Sherman tank nicknamed "Wot the Hell" β used by the British 9th Royal Tank Regiment during the North African campaign β had a particularly unusual piece of battlefield salvage: a piece of dark chocolate that had some...
The Fokker Plane That Landed Itself on a Cloud
On March 12, 1940, a Dutch Fokker T-8 twin-engine naval reconnaissance plane, piloted by Lieutenant J.H. Hupkes, encountered a severe thunderstorm over the North Sea while returning from a patrol. As ice built up on the ...
The B-17 That Flew with a Decommissioned Turret
During a raid on the PloieΘti oil refineries in Romania on August 1, 1943 (Operation Tidal Wave), a B-17 named "Old 666" lost its ball turret gunner when the turret's hydraulic fluid ignited. The gunner, Sergeant John J....
The Horse That Became a U-boat Mascot
During World War II, the German submarine U-96 β made famous by the novel and film "Das Boot" β carried an unusual passenger: a goat named Heidi, adopted by the crew off the coast of occupied France in 1941. Heidi quickl...