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The Kamikaze Who Missed on Purpose
On October 25, 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, Ensign Masajiro Miyashita flew his Zero toward the USS Kaloli, then pulled up at the last second and deliberately flew past the carrier without attacking, landing...
The Last kamikaze: October 1945
Japan officially surrendered on September 2, 1945. But on October 18, 1945 β six weeks after the surrender β a Japanese pilot named Lieutenant Second Class Kazuo Odashima took off from Kanoya airfield in a Mitsubishi Ki-...
The Dutch Spy Who Saved Operation Market Garden
On September 17, 1944, the day Operation Market Garden launched, a Dutch resistance member using the codename "Gε΄rrit" (Gerrit) transmitted the complete German defensive positions in the Netherlands to Allied intelligenc...
The Small Town That Survived 7 Nazi Divisions
The town of Gorodnya in eastern Belarus survived German occupation for 887 days. What made it remarkable: it was surrounded by seven Nazi divisions during the peak of Operation Barbarossa, cut off from all resupply. The ...
The German Officer Who Saved 210 Jews by Falsifying Orders
Captain Gustav Wagner was a deputy commandant of the Sobibor extermination camp β and one of its most notorious killers. But in October 1943, during the Sobibor uprising, Wagner made a decision that saved 210 Jewish pris...