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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 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 USS Indianapolis Survivors Who Survived Shark Attacks
After the cruiser USS Indianapolis was sunk by Japanese torpedoes on July 30, 1945, 880 men went into the water with almost no lifeboats or supplies. They survived four days in the Pacific. What history books often softe...
The Siege of Leningrad: Surviving on Wallpaper Paste
The Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944) lasted 872 days β the longest siege in modern history. What made it uniquely horrific: in the winter of 1941-42, when food rations dropped to 125 grams of bread per day (made of sawdust...
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....