Barcelona was the de facto capital of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War, which also made it the center of the anti-Franco forces. After Barcelona fell on...
The famous film “Zulu” (1964), starring Michael Cain, was based on this battle. For this famous actor it was the first leading role in his career. Just to mention, Zulu i...
His Chetniks received the status of the “Yugoslav Army in the Homeland”. The full name of Mihailović’s office was “Minister of the Army, Navy, and Air Forces”. On t...
On this day, with the firing of the first rifle shot, the American Civil War began. It happened in the port city of Charleston in the state of South Carolina. That countr...
On this day in 1941 U.S. admiral Chester W. Nimitz took command of the United States Pacific Fleet. This occurred around three weeks after the famous attack on Pearl Harb...
On this day the last naval clash of German and British large ships in World War II took place. The German ship Scharnhorst achieved fame during the war by sinking the Bri...
On this day in 1948, Japanese war criminals from World War II were executed by hanging. They were criminals convicted at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, the Japanese equiv...
This day marked the birth of Avraham Stern, the founder of the militant Jewish Zionist group “Lehi”, which fought against the British. “Lehi” was short for “Lohamei Herut...
