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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 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...
Operation Market Garden's Forgotten Bridge
Most people know about Arnhem and the bridge too far. But the critical battle was at Nijmegen β the Waal River bridge β where a group of American paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne executed one of the most audacious day...
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: What the Germans Never Wanted Anyone to Know
On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began with just 750 Jewish fighters β armed with pistols, a few rifles, and homemade grenades β against the full might of the SS and Wehrmacht. The uprising lasted until May ...
The Women Who Mapped Normandy for D-Day
Before D-Day, the US Army's 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, staffed almost entirely by women, created the most detailed aerial maps of Normandy ever produced. Working from RAF bases in England, they analyzed th...
The Unknown Soldier Who Freed Paris
When the 2nd Armored Division under General Philippe Leclerc entered Paris on August 25, 1944, the first tank into the city β named "The Maintenant" (Now) by its crew β was driven by Sergeant Fernand Buridant, a Frenchma...