When Japanese Forces Occupied American Soil
While most people know about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, which happened on December 7, 1941, far fewer people know that six…
A Savage & Brutal Affair. Hand-To-Hand Combat in WW1
In trench combat, any encounter you had with an enemy soldier was likely to be a life-or-death one. The First World War is notorious for…
The Canadian Rambo, Jumped Into the Bunker & Took On 53 Germans & Won
It takes a special kind of man to be awarded the Victoria Cross – the highest military honor bestowed by the United Kingdom and Commonwealth…
Canadian Soldiers Stuck With Obsolete WWII-era Pistols
At the Armed Forces Skill at Arms competition in 2017 at the Robinson Maneuver Training Center in North Little Rock, Arkansas, the Canadian Army’s best…
Happy Anniversary To a Special League of Extraordinary Canadian & American Gentlemen
About three weeks before Christmas in 1943, a very special league of extraordinary Canadian and American gentlemen joined together to disrupt a German position in…
Canadians Unable to Sell Obsolete Leopard Tanks
The Canadian military is stuck with 50 decommissioned Leopard 1C2 after modernizing with the Leopard 2. An attempt to sell the older tanks to Jordan…
Air Power in the Battle for Normandy
When the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944, one of the most important advantages they had was their air power. The Royal Air Force (RAF)…
The Disastrous Dieppe Raid That Cost Thousands of Canadian Casualties
On the 19th of August 1942, the Allies launched a raid on the port of Dieppe in Nazi-occupied France. Though the operation was run by…
100s Killed In Tragic ‘Friendly Fire’ Incidents During The Airborne Assault on Sicily in 1943
Operation Overlord and the D-day landings on June 6th, 1944 were supported by a massive assault of airborne infantry, both paratroopers and men in large…
Where Patton Awarded McAuliffe: The 101st Airborne HQ Chateau in Bastogne Revisited
In this Dakota Hunter Blog, you will read about an insane plan that the Germans deployed in a final effort to break the imminent Allied…
How A Small Group Of Canadian Paratroopers Saved Denmark From Soviet Occupation
By May 1945 the war in Europe had finally started to wind down. Yet for the men of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, there was…
The British WWII Plan for an Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice
The British needed help. The German U-boats were destroying the mighty British naval force. The worst affected area was a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean…