by jeff.sanders | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog
Otto “Scarface” Skorzeny was a legend in his own time. As an SS Commando he was a fearless hero to his men. To the British and Americans he was “the most dangerous man in Europe”. Otto Skorzeny was an Austrian, but fanatically believed in the...
by jeff.sanders | Dec 31, 2016 | Blog
I love reading and writing about little known heroes who creatively did their job, and whose work had great impact. Rex Applegate is one of the unsung American heroes of World War II. He developed what would become the standard “close quarter combat”...
by jeff.sanders | Dec 19, 2016 | Blog
They say it was the strangest battle of World War II. On May 4, 1945, just days before the German surrender, SS troops abandoned the Castle Itter which had been holding a number of high level French VIPs: former prime ministers, high ranking generals, and even a...
by jeff.sanders | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog
One of the weirdest and funniest and most touching stories to emerge from World War II is the story of Wojtek (pronounced “Voy-chek”) the beer-guzzling, cigarette-smoking warrior-bear of the Polish II Corps that fought with the Allies in Italy. Yes, that...
by jeff.sanders | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog
Yep. Another forgotten story of World War II is that Brazil sent it’s tiny little army, navy, and air force to help us in the fight against Nazism. The United States had been pressuring Brazil to join the Allies. Brazil at first was hesitant since their own...
