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Below we present the story of a man baptized as the "last kamikaze", undoubtedly one of the most devoted and courageous officers of the Imperial Navy. Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki lived according to the Bushidō code and died a samurai death in…

The German offensive code-named "Zitadelle" carried out in the area of Kursk on the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union led to the largest armoured battle fought during World War II. Thousands of tanks, guns, planes and almost 3 million…

Not everyone knows that at the beginning of the 15th century the Czechs rebelled against the Roman Catholic Church and founded their own religious movement called Hussitism. The escalation of the conflict led to armed crusades on their…

During World War II, the Third Reich released to the Atlantic the so-called U-Boot wolf packs, i.e. submarines whose task was to terrorize the commercial and military navies of the Allies. One of them was a ship numbered U-977, whose crew…

Here are eight little known, but interesting, stories from the period of World War II, about how the Norwegian resistance movement poisoned the German U-Boot crew stationed in France, how the Czechs unconsciously showed Germans the…

When the outcome of the war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan was a foregone conclusion, the Imperial armed forces, in an act of desperation, sent suicide pilots to the battle, whose task was to fly in one direction ended…

The history of wars is also a collection of battles which had a decisive impact on the history of a given region, country or even the whole culture. In 1851 historian Edward Shepard Creasy created a subjective collection of 15…

The history of wars is also a collection of battles which had a decisive impact on the history of a given region, country or even the whole culture. In 1851 historian Edward Shepard Creasy created a subjective collection of 15…

Below we present the story of probably the most successful sniper in history - the Finnish soldier Simo Häyhä, baptized by his enemies as "White Death". During the winter war between Finland and the USSR between 1939 and 1940, Simo shot…

The word "raptor" means "predator" from English. It is hard to better describe the F-22, the US' fifth generation fighter, whose destructive capabilities cannot be compared to any other machine of its kind in the world. Stealth technology,…

On 14 September 1954, one of the most tragic military exercises in history took place. During the manoeuvres with the cryptonym "Snezhok", the Soviet Union threw a nuclear bomb on the Totskoye military training ground, where several hours…

The American defeat inflicted by the Japanese fleet on Pearl Harbor is considered one of the biggest military catastrophes in the history of the USA. In fact, the losses of the Pacific Fleet were not as severe as usually thought, and Japan…