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What Are the Five Rarest Guns of WWII?

The 6 Year Old Red Army Lieutenant of WW2 (Youngest Soldier of the War)

Real One Man Armies

Why Did Civil War Soldiers Wear Revolutionary Uniforms?

The Green Beret who went on a one man Rampage to save his Comrades

What Are the Historical Roles of Watchtowers?

RAF Fighter Pilot (World War II)

What Makes a Good Gun Design

What Is the SPP-1 Underwater Pistol?

Taking a Mortar to the leg, this Marine kept fighting

What Did the Aztec Ballgame Involve?

The Worst Betrayals in History

What Caused the Medieval Dancing Plague?

The Defense of Fort Vaux (1916, World War I)

Did the T-34 Tank Win WW2?

Why YOU Wouldn't want to be the 10th Roman soldier!

7.5 cm Pak 40 Anti-tank gun (World War II)

Sentry Duty (World War I)

Weird Plague 'Cures' (The Black Death)

Secret Organisations of the West and East

What is the FSB and why is it so Feared?

Most Evil Dictators and What they Did

Stupid Things that Bored Soldiers Do

What Were the Most Brutal Medieval Punishments?

Inhumane Punishments in History

Who Were the Tallest and Most Obese Soldiers in History?

What Were the Strengths of the KV-1 Tank?

What Made the B-17 Ball Turret Gunner So Risky?

How 200 Soldiers Took Down The Inca Empire

Why you Must NOT Shoot Medics in War

What Caused the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857?

Most Evil Hazing Traditions That Were Straight Up Murder

Why Did a Man Steal a Tank in San Diego?

The Soldier who threw himself onto a grenade (Heroic sacrifice)

How Did the Schwerer Gustav Artillery Gun Work?

Why Do Vietnam Veterans Experience Severe PTSD?

What Was the Malayan Emergency and Its Impact?

Viking Myths you thought were true!

What Act of Bravery Did Wang Chuang Show in Korea?

Why Were Sailors Unhealthy in the 16th to 18th Century?

Hitler's Evil Lair in the German Mountains (The Eagle's Nest)

Forbidden Actions that are Illegal in War

How Did the USS Borie Defeat U-405 in WWII?

What Happened to the Antonov An-225 in Ukraine?

M1 Abrams Main battle tank

Who Would Have Replaced an Assassinated Hitler in 1943?

Unique uses for Guns

The Battle of the Bulge (1944-45)

What Is Stolen Valor and Its Legal Consequences?

Medieval Weapons and Armor used in WW1

U-Boats (World War II)

What Happened During the Battle for Castle Itter?

Tanks! Monsters of the battlefield!

What Were the Horrors of the Hanoi Hilton Prison?

Hitler’s Personal Train: The Führersonderzug

Rasputin, the man who wouldn't die (Strange Stories)

English Longbowman (Medieval Archer)

What Is the Salvo Tactic in Warfare?

The Bullet that Started WWI

Savage War Crimes

Gross Jobs in History you're glad you don't have to do

The Man who Fought with a Longbow and a Sword in WWII

The Fighter Ace who Downed 11 planes in a Single Day

Trench Systems (Cross Section)

How Are Tanks Captured in Combat?

Brutal Moments of the Vietnam War

Secret Cold War Gadgets

The Monk that Burned Himself to Death (The Vietnam war)

What Was the Weimar Republic's Role in Germany?

The Biggest Frauds In History

How Did Panther Turrets Bolster WWII Defences?

What Were Hitler's Most Ambitious Wonder Weapons?

The Russian Revolution (1917)

The Real Horror of Aztec Sacrifice

Life inside a M4 Sherman (Cross Section)

The 4 Great Inventions that changed the world (China)

Sloped armor: A simple feature that saved many lives

Scary History Compilation Series 1

Allied soldiers Crucified by Germans in WW1

This U.S. Pilot shot Down an American plane and got the Kill, Why?

What Happened During the Bum La Pass Charge?

The Great Plague of London (1665-66)

What Happened During the Biscari Massacre?

What Role Did Spetsnaz Play in the Soviet-Afghan War?

The BIGGEST Accidents In War

What Happened to Japan's Tiger Tank in WW2?

Why Did Pope Urban II Initiate the First Crusade?

Old WW1 Veterans who Kept Fighting in WW2

What Role Have Private Militaries Played in History?

NATO (1949-)

Drunkard's Cloak (Weird Punishments in History)

How Did Famous Prisoners Escape in History?

They wouldn't let her join WW1 so she joined anyway

What Happened During the Cannibal Escape in Australia?

The Electrician who escaped the desert by turning his car into a motorbike

What Happened at Pavlov's House in Stalingrad?

The President who avoided being eaten by cannibals in WWII

Helmet Graffiti in the Vietnam War

Why Did Canada’s Military Become So Ruthless?

At What Age Did Spartan Warriors Start Training?

What Happened During the Battle of Bunker Hill?

What Are the Most Ingenious Prison-Made Weapons?

The Great Emu War, 1932 (Weird Wars)

Attack of the Dead Men (Strange Stories)

What Was the Heinkel He 111Z Aircraft?

Helmets in History

Australian Penal Colonies

U.S. Infantry Weapons (Vietnam War)

How Did Miso Soup Help a Convict Escape Prison?

The Ancient Greek Olympics (776 BC-393 AD)

How Did Flagellants Try to Cure the Plague?

What Are the Oddest Military Traditions?

What Makes British and American Military Salutes Different?

Bro does Beer Run for his Buddies in Vietnam War

The GIANT Sioux Warrior of the Korean War

What Were Handheld Shields in WWI?

The Italian invasion of Abyssinia (1935-36)

Censorship in Nazi Germany

Why Did This Man VOLUNTEER for Auschwitz?

What Was the Blitz and Its Impact on Britain?

The Irish Potato Famine (1845–1852)

The Stolen Tank Rampage! (1995)

What Was the Role of the Chinese Army in WWII?

Strange Soldier Superstitions

What Are the Most Dreadful Sounds of War?

Soldier who Overdosed on Meth in Combat (Strange Stories of World War II)

Which Countries Are Toughest to Invade?

Life Under THE Most Evil Communist Regime - Khmer Rouge

Why Were Low I.Q. Recruits Sent to Vietnam?

What Were Vietnam's Tunnel Rats and Their Role?

The Prisoners who Used Fake Heads to Escape Alcatraz

The Pilot who strapped Bazookas to his Plane (World War II)

Impossible Prison Escapes

Who Was Simo Häyhä, The White Death?

When a US Marine Survived a LIVE RPG in his Leg

What Were Italy's Main Infantry Weapons in WWII?

Absurd Stories from the Afghanistan War

Panzer Crewman (World War II)

The Grey Ghost of WW2 - USS Enterprise

Thumbscrews (Horrible Punishments in History)

An NVA soldier and his son hid in the jungle for 40 years thinking the Vietnam War was still ongoing

What Was the Role of the PIAT in WWII?

U.S. Soldier who Fought NVA Troops while High on Marijuana (Stories from The Vietnam War)

What Was Operation Credible Sport's Ambitious Plan?

Spring Heeled Jack (Strange Stories)