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The Red Orchestra's Soviet Branch
While the famous Berlin-based Red Orchestra spied for the Soviets in Germany, a separate and far more dangerous network operated inside the USSR itself: the Soviet Intelligence network in Switzerland led by Rachel DΓΌbend...
The Japanese Admiral Who Saved 3,000 Allied POWs
When Vice Admiral ChΕ«ichi Nagumo β the same admiral who attacked Pearl Harbor β discovered in August 1945 that his forces were ordered to execute 3,000 Allied POWs rather than transport them to Japan, he refused. He fals...
The Firebombing of Tokyo: The Raid Most Americans Don't Know
On the night of March 9-10, 1945, B-29s dropped 1,665 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo in a single raid, creating a firestorm that killed an estimated 100,000 people in a single night β more than either atomic bombing. ...