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The 62nd Army's Last 67 Men
At the conclusion of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet 62nd Army — which had held the city against impossible odds — was reduced to 67 surviving officers and 239 soldiers. General Chuikov, the army commander, was evac...
The German Officer Who Saved 210 Jews by Falsifying Orders
Captain Gustav Wagner was a deputy commandant of the Sobibor extermination camp — and one of its most notorious killers. But in October 1943, during the Sobibor uprising, Wagner made a decision that saved 210 Jewish pris...
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...