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Trivia (20)

Odd Stories

Winston Churchill's Failed Military Career

📍 South Africa / Gallipoli · 1900
Heroes

Irena Sendler: The Smuggler of Warsaw

📍 Warsaw Ghetto, Poland · 1940
Odd Stories

The Soldier Who Fought With a Broadsword, Bagpipes, and Longbow

📍 Dunkirk / France / Yugoslavia / Sachsenhausen · 1940
Eastern Front

The Soviet Tank Ace Who Didn't Own His Tank — Zinoviy Kolobanov

📍 Krasnogvardeysk, USSR · 1941
Resistance

Operation Anthropoid: Killing Heydrich

📍 Prague, Czechoslovakia · 1942
Women

The Night Witches: Stalin's Female Bomber Regiment

📍 Eastern Front · 1942
Resistance

The Village of Le Chambon — An Entire Town That Stood Against the Nazis

📍 Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France · 1942
Resistance

The White Rose: German Students Who Defied Hitler

📍 Munich, Germany · 1943
Resistance

The Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage That Stopped Hitler's Bomb

📍 Vemork, Norway · 1943
Strange

The Air Truce of December 20, 1943: Franz Stigler's Act of Mercy

📍 Bremen / North Sea · 1943
Pacific

The Battle of Attu — The Only U.S. Territory Captured by the Japanese

📍 Attu Island, Alaska · 1943
Women

Nancy Wake — The White Mouse Who Made the Gestapo Chase Shadows

📍 France / Spain · 1943
Asian Theater

Orde Wingate's Chindits and the Airfield Built in the Jungle

📍 Burma · 1943
Normandy

Omaha Beach's Hidden Draw — The Vierville Sur Mer Escape Route

📍 Omaha Beach, Vierville · 1944
Normandy

The Mulberry Harbors: Engineering Marvels of D-Day

📍 Arromanches, Normandy · 1944
Normandy

The Canadian Juno Beach Assault That Nearly Succeeded

📍 Juno Beach, Bernieres-sur-Mer · 1944
Normandy

The American Cemetery at Coleville-sur-Mer: 9,387 Stories

📍 Coleville-sur-Mer, Normandy · 1944
Eastern Front

Mammy Two-Shoes and the Tuskegee Airmen — The Red Tails Who Won the War Twice

📍 Tuskegee / Italy / Germany · 1944
Pacific

The Battle of the Rice Barges: A Naval Battle in a River

📍 Luzon, Philippines · 1945
Resistance

Operation Carthage — The RAF Raid on Gestapo Headquarters

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark · 1945

Stories (5)

courage

The Pilot Who Flew With No Feet

rescue

The Mother Who Hid Resistance Fighters in Her Bread Ovens

rescue

The Village That Hid Thousands and Told the Lies That Saved Them

heartfelt

The Man Who Refused to Shoot the Wounded

heartfelt

Franz Stigler Refused to Shoot the Wounded B-17