Dispatches
Nick’s WWII Archive
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The White Death — A Source Dossier
77 pages on Simo Häyhä: every disputed figure traced to its first source, the 1940 newspapers, and his own notebook. The evidence file behind our film.
Every American WWII Helmet Was Secretly Two Helmets
The Flamethrower Marine Who Lived Through Iwo Jima
Japan Knew America's WWII Bombs Weren't Exploding
The Codebreaker They Wanted Gone After Midway
The Army Filmed Broken WWII Soldiers, Then Hid It
542 Kills: The Tally Finland's Wartime Records Can't Produce
Guadalcanal: 122 Musket Balls in One Shell
The Deadly Flaw of Hitler’s Buzzsaw
The WWII Scout Who Spent a Night in German Lines
The Mail-Order Rifle That Never Reached Guadalcanal
The 83-Year-Old Who Doomed a WWII German Battalion
The WWII Radioman Who Killed Snipers He Never Saw
One Night on Guadalcanal Killed 800 of His Men
When 372,000 German POWs Lived in America
The German Officers Who Watched D Day Begin — and Couldn't Make Berlin Believe It
What Hitler's Generals Secretly Said About Patton — The WWII Hidden Microphone War
The Soviet Student Credited With 309 Kills — Before Anyone Believed She Existed
The WWII Wreck Packed With 1,400 Tons of Explosives — Untouched Since 1944
"Enough Land to Bury Our Dead" — What Soviet Soldiers Really Said About Invading Finland
The Gear U.S. Soldiers Threw Away in WWII — and Why
The Japanese Soldier Who Hid in a Cave Until 1972
The Pearl Harbor Pilot Who Couldn't Be Killed
Pearl Harbor's Hero the Navy Wouldn't Name
The Only WW2 Soldier to Win the Victoria Cross Twice
The Bullet That Should Have Killed the White Death
The Kilted Scot Who Bluffed 23,000 Germans
The Marine Who Filmed Iwo Jima and Vanished
Why Finland Named a Weapon After Molotov
The Jewish Forger the SS Kept Alive to Print £130 Million in Fake Pounds
The Polish Officer Who Volunteered for Auschwitz — and Spied Inside for 945 Days
The Finnish Farmer Who Killed Over 500 Soviets — Without a Scope
The Soviet Dogs That 'Killed 300 Tanks' — The Truth Is Darker
The Insane Allied Plot to Turn Hitler Into a Woman
The Curator Who Spied on the Nazis to Save 20,000 Masterpieces
The German Sailor Who Lasted Six Hours at an Arizona POW Camp
The Secret Plot to ASSASSINATE Hitler (And Why It Failed SPECTACULARLY)
How One Finnish Colonel Erased 9,000 Soviets With No Tanks of His Own
Why Britain's Top Female Spies Lied to Their Husbands for 30 Years
Project X Ray: America’s Absurd Plan to Burn Japan Using 1 Million Bats
The Bizarre Reality of German POWs Farming in the American South
The Battle of Britain: How the RAF Stopped the Luftwaffe
The Battle of Midway: How the US Navy Turned the Tide in the Pacific