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The youngest pilot of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)was 14 year old Arkady Kamanin.
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In 1941, when he was only 14 years old, he began to fly, flatly refusing to go evacuate. Before his eyes, Arkadi had an example of his father – the famous pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union, military leader Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin.Arkady, the youngest of the pilots, who received…
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Vasily Zaitsev (far left) instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, 1942.
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Hero of the Soviet Union, Vasily Zaitsev is perhaps the most famous of all the heroes of the Red Army in their fight against the genocidal Nazi and fascist invaders. Zaitsev is credited with having killed 225 Nazi soldiers between November 10 – December 17, 1942 during the Battle of…
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🎬 Siberian Sniper (2021)
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“Siberian Sniper” is a war drama set during World War II, focusing on the life of a young Soviet sniper, Vasily, from a small village in Siberia. As the war intensifies, Vasily is conscripted into the Red Army and quickly distinguishes himself with his remarkable marksmanship and tactical prowess. The…
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Late December, 1942 – On the photo is unknown Soviet soldier previously arrived from the Far East to the Stalingrad, thanks to Richard Sorge’s inteligence achievements which claims that Japanese army won’t attack USSR.
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Stavka organized transport of infantry from the Far East and Siberia in order to give support to the defenders of Stalingrad. If Stalingrad fell into the enemy hands, entire Caucasus region would have been cutt off from the USSR which produced 70% of state’s oil. This soldier uses mortar on…
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They were known as Panfilov’s 28 Guardsmen –
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a legendary unit of Soviet soldiers written into the pantheon of national heroism after they died battling German tanks just two hours outside Moscow as the freezing winter of 1941-1942 set in. History says that the regiment was formed mainly from Almaty and Bishkek natives shortly after the beginning of…
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Medal of Honor Monday!
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On this day in 1987, a Medal of Honor recipient passes away. Ralph Neppel’s bravery had come 43 years earlier, during World War II. Perhaps no one expected a farm boy from Iowa to be a war hero? Neppel had been among those landing at Normandy in the days after…
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Born in 1821 in Nykøbing Falster, Rödder came from a wealthy noble family of German descent and pursued medical studies in Copenhagen.
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In 1856, while traveling in Italy, he stumbled upon strange writings and bizarre specimens. This encounter introduced him to the famed crypto-naturalist and xeno-archaeologist Thomas Merrylin from London. Inspired by Merrylin, Rödder shifted his focus to the occult and the Dark World, amassing an extraordinary collection of cryptozoological artifacts that…
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Major Dick Winters and Captain Lewis Nixon, who met in Officer Candidate School and became best friends, are pictured celebrating the end of the war in Berchtesgaden in early May 1945.
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They are sitting on the patio of Hitler’s alpine retreat, the Berghof. The two men are depicted by Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston in “Band of Brothers”. Of his close friendship with Lewis Nixon, Dick Winters once said, “Nixon was a hard drinker, a free spirit who enjoyed the wild…
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RememberingGregory Boyington who died January 11th 1988.
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In college Boyington joined the ROTC and upon graduation was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army. When Boyington attempted to apply for flight training he was denied on the grounds that at that time the program excluded married men.Boyington attempted to join the flight training program using…
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By the beginning of 1945, Germany was clearly in a desperate state as powerful Allied armies pressed in upon its boarders from both East and West.
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In terms of the latter, the Western Allies had 3,724,927 men in Northwest Europe thus giving them a force of 73 divisions. The Allies also possessed over 17,500 assorted combat aircraft in Britain, France and the Low Countries. Finally and perhaps equally important, the Allies now possessed the logistical means…