Kingdom of the Netherlands (1918-1940) Armored Car – 1 Built The First World War was the first war in history in which armored vehicles were used in significant numbers, by all sides. The Netherlands, as a neutral country, only observed from the sideline. However, in 1914, one Belgian ...
Dr. Josef Mengele, also known as the Angel of Death, killed more than 2,800 twins because of his experiments. Anne Frank and her sister died at the Bergen-Belsen camp one month before the liberation. During WWII, hamburgers in America were called “Liberty Steaks” to avoid the German nam...
Their main function was to assist GRS personnel in establishing cause and certainty of death, and in identifying the dead by means of technical inspection and notation. Their basic training indeed fitted them for a rapid and accurate execution of this task. They were very familiar with medical ...
Lombard, the firecracker screwball star. Yet in less than a year, all of those things turned to ash following Lombard’s violent death. When her plane went down in a fiery blaze, it was treated as a national tragedy around the country, and for her husband it was the beginning of the ...
Eugene Bullard, The Black Swallow of Death The amazing story of an African-American pilot in the First World War as told byThe History Guy. An overview of the men from the Caribbean who flew for the RAF and their experiences as captured by Captain Mark Johnson. A beautifully designed presen...
USS Enterprise (CV-6) had been spared a pier-side death on December 7, delaying its return from a ferry run to Wake Island upon receiving news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Lexington (CV-2) also was at sea that morning, and Saratoga (CV-3) was embarking planes in San ...
The greatmassof the Italian people greeted Mussolini’s death without regret. He had lived beyond his time and had dragged his country into a disastrous war, which it was unwilling and unready to fight.Democracywas restored in the country after 20 years ofdictatorship, and a neo-Fascist Party...
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“Today I shot down my first opponent. It does not set well with me. I keep thinking about how the mother of this young man must feel when she gets the news of her son’s death. And I am to blame for this death. I am sad, instead of being happy about the first victory. I ...
Famous nicknames such as "The Flying Tank" and "Der Schwarze Tod" (the "Black Death") were not created by soldiers. First one was created by the designer in early stages of design. The second one was created by the Soviet propaganda. Luftwaffe pilots called it Eiserner Gustav (Iron Gustav...