World War II
WWII Air Gunner From Montpelier Gets France’s Top Honor
When James Facos was squeezed into the ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress, using the two 50-caliber machine guns on either side of him to soften up German air defenses to let his plane drop its payload of bombs, he wasn't looking to get into the good graces of the French. He and the nine other members of his bomber crew,...
A young Joseph Stalin before the USSR
Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879 — 1953), taken from a police file. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin was not his name. Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1878, Ioseb Jughashvili was the son of a failing cobbler and a housemaid. His father Besarion was an alcoholic, and,...
How a Nazi SS storm trooper went from being Hitler’s henchman to an Irish farmer
A notorious Nazi, known as “Hitler’s favorite commando” and “the most dangerous man in Europe,” Otto Skorzeny lived a peaceful life in a mansion on a 160-acre farm in County Kildare 14 years after the end of World War II. Not an easy man to miss, Skorzeny stood 6 foot 4 inches tall and weighed...
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