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Soviet POWs who rebelled or joined partisans were usually given lenient treatment, usually just ''voluntary'' term in work brigades. Contrary to popular misconceptions, most of repatriated POWs were not executed or sent to gulags, but most were sanctioned with punishments like expulsion from...

I'm sure it has nothing to do with certain, recently commissioned cruiser. It's interesting to see MG-13 in a German news reel, they avoided, if possible, showing any other MGs but the new MG-34s

It wasn't really a 19th century cannon, it was a new gun made from water pipe

Opium makes you sluggish, which makes difficult to carry out the kind of attacks that juramentados made, the kind of attacks they were known to make for centuries before the traders brought them opium.

While US propaganda at the time portrayed juramentados as drugged up lunatics, they weren't, they were Islamic zealots on suicide mission and as Miami shootout teaches us, you don't need to be drugged up to fight beyond the point of collapse.

They never intended to kill Eisenhower, their orders were to cause havoc in the rear areas near the frontline, not do the suicide run to the Paris. The thing about plan to kill high ranking officers was just fear mongering of those chaotic first days of offensive, when soldiers saw enemy...

Man who never wanted to ride in fighter jet accidentally ejects himself And if not for a malfunction of a system, French Air Force would be a Rafale short.

The story of the official Waterloo diorama Wellington took offence at the presence of Prussian troops on the diorama and did his best to ruin the makers reputation and career.

Russia and France will sell military tech to anyone and Russia is a bit cheaper than France. I have slight feeling though that Brazilian attempt to build submarines would go even worse than Indian attempt.

Was the last ship to shoot down an aircraft the USS Vincennes?

Not to mention they were unarmed.

The Germans made that one, they admitted it during the inept handling of the fallout.

But you didn't, you declared war after Germans committed a diplomatic idiocy of the century (and as you can imagine that's against some very stiff competition).

And he was still the superior of the Atlantic Fleet commander and regularly interfered in the decision making.

He was also partially responsible for the Second Happy Time, because he absolutely refused to consider British advice on submarine countermeasures, preferring to learn everything the hard way.

The version I heard is that the leadership of 173d already knew that the airfield has been secured before they started gearing up the troops and could simply told them not to put on the parachutes and have the planes land instead. But combat drops look good on resume...

Gebirgisjägers managed to pull the survivors out the water though and they became one of the most successful U-Boat crews.

The United States Army in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom It's the Internet Archive

Yeah, sounds like typical USAF self-promoting BS, there was probably another budget battle and they needed money for B-52s. Here is the army version: Series of air strikes over three weeks is much more believable than solitary B-52 with miracle accuracy.

Considering that I can't even find a mention of similar clash near Bagram, I reckon it's one of those military legends that from multiple retellings start meshing up several events together, amping them up severely. You know, like when the SF guys tells the guys from the 10th mountain about how...