She was an exotic dancer, the most solicited courtesan of Paris, a spy, a double agent and after being executed while blowing a kiss to the firing squad, a pop culture icon who still endures

From Baby San to Whiskey  Tango  Foxtrot, with their etymological origins and historical backgrounds explained

Known as "the buzzer", it is a Soviet-era radio station that continuously broadcasts indecipherable beeps and buzzes over shortwave. First detected in 1980, it remains operational today and its purposes are still unknown

Operative between 1959 and 1967, the base, built in tunnels under the ice, was powered by the world's first mobile nuclear reactor. To the public eye, it was advertised as a scientific research station. Undercover, it was a missile launching base. Here are the reasons for its abandonment in 1967

We might think these are practices belonging to bygone times but right now, there are a dozen occultists hexing each other in any war worldwide

John Chickie Donohue's 1967 journey to bring beer from New York to his friends deployed in the Vietnam War. The route analyzed in detail with a map, framed in its historical context. Illustrated with real images of the epic journey

Luftwaffe pilots followed a code of aerial chivalry, according to which they refrained from strafing Allied airmen who had bailed out by parachute

The unknowns that give fuel to the main conspiracy theories surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack. Tactical success versus strategic error. why did Japan decide to attack the United States? Why did the Japanese leave the fuel storage tanks intact? Was it an agreed attack? Did the U.S. administration allow the attack to take place in order to enter World War II? Did the British conceal information?

In 1945, as British forces recaptured northern Burma, they surrounded an imperial regiment inside a crocodile-infested mangrove swamp. The feast was served

In 1968, the USSR lost a submarine armed with nuclear missiles. The CIA immediately launched the secret Project Azorian to recover it. A real‑life story in which reality surpasses fiction

The inconvenience as a unit of measurement of an English king's foot, the Indochina war, Vietnam, Australian special forces and a Belgian assault rifle

Everything the mainstream media won't tell you about the first two nuclear attacks in history. Did they really end World War II?

Post-apocalyptic relics of World War II, only 4 are left standing

Muse of surrealism, photographer, tough war correspondent, The Guardian once described her as model, monster and mother

She fought during the siege of Sarajevo shooting down Serbian snipers. Only his code name is remembered; "Strijela" or "Arrow". Welcome to her hunting ground, the avenue of snipers

Misconceptions caused mainly by movies, press and photos

On September 16, 1943, the Black Sheep Squadron began its reign of terror over Japanese pilots, shooting down 11 Zeros in the Solomon Islands. Their leader, Greg "Pappy" Boyington, scored five of those victories and from that fateful day for the Rising Sun, he continued adding kills almost daily

In 1941, a squadron of mercenary pilots became the terror of the Japanese air force during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Grateful Chinese called them the Flying Tigers

In 1958, a mysterious World War II bomber was discovered in the middle of the Sahara, perfectly preserved as if it had suddenly been transported through time from the 1940s and dropped onto the desert dunes 15 years later. This is the story of the aircraft and the tragic fate that befell its crew

This is Orphan Ann on Radio Tokyo, the little sunbeam whose throat you'd like to cut. Get ready again for a vicious assault on your morale!