Trivia (29)

Heroes

Chiune Sugihara: The Japanese Schindler

📍 Kaunas, Lithuania · 1940
Heroes

Aristides de Sousa Mendes: The Diplomat Who Defied Salazar

📍 Bordeaux, France · 1940
Heroes

Chiune Sugihara Writing Visas on a Train

📍 Kaunas, Lithuania · 1940
Women

Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville

📍 Poland / France · 1941
Women

Lyudmila Pavlichenko — Deadliest Female Sniper in History

📍 Odessa / Sevastopol / Washington DC · 1941
Intelligence

The Navajo Code Talkers' Unbroken Code

📍 Pacific Theater · 1942
Intelligence

The Woman Who Ran Hitler's Most Wanted Spy Network

📍 London / France · 1942
Resistance

The Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage That Stopped Hitler's Bomb

📍 Vemork, Norway · 1943
Asian Theater

The Chindits: Behind Enemy Lines in Burma

📍 Burma · 1943
Odd Stories

The Great Panjandum — Britain's Funniest Failed Weapon

📍 Devon, England · 1943
Normandy

The D-Day Weather Forecast That Changed History

📍 Southwick House, England · 1944
Normandy

Les Diables Rouges de la Pointe du Hoc

📍 Pointe du Hoc, Normandy · 1944
Intelligence

Double Agent Juan Pujol Garcia (Garbo)

📍 Spain / England · 1944
Normandy

Dead Ringer: The Body That Fooled the Abwehr

📍 Germany / England · 1944
Normandy

Artillery That Wasn't: The Sherman Duplex Drive Disaster

📍 Omaha Beach, Normandy · 1944
Normandy

The German Radar Station That Wasn't There

📍 Pointe de la Percee, Normandy · 1944
Normandy

The French Commando Who Brought His Dogs to Sword Beach

📍 Sword Beach, Ouistreham · 1944
Heroes

Violette Szabo — The SOE Agent Who Fought to the Last Bullet

📍 Salagnac / Ravensbruck · 1944
Normandy

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

📍 Coleville-sur-Mer, Normandy · 1944
Intelligence

The Abwehr Double Agent Who Ran the German Spy Network in Britain

📍 Spain / England / Germany · 1944
Eastern Front

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

📍 Tuskegee / Italy / Germany · 1944
Pacific

Hiroo Onoda: The Soldier Who Fought Until 1974

📍 Lubang Island, Philippines · 1974
Pacific

Hiroo Onoda — The Soldier Who Fought Until 1974

📍 Lubang Island, Philippines · 1974
Pacific

Hiroo Onoda Fought Until 1974

📍 Lubang Island, Philippines · 1974