World War II Photos History Teachers Didn’t Show You

Published on 04/22/2018
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Close Kamikaze Call

Many argue the success of Kamikaze suicide missions with the percentage ranging between 4% to 19% rate of success. Whether or not these pilots always achieved their goals of destroying American naval vessels, they played a big part in psychological warfare during World War II. The Americans managed to shoot down this Kamikaze plane only moments before it attacked.

Close Kamikaze Call


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Strange Tactics

Germans posing with people in bear costumes is something that was popular between the 1920’s and the 1960’s. The reason for this strange trend still has concrete answers, but it definitely has many raised eyebrows. These Nazi soldiers pose alongside a friend dressed up as a polar bear, but perhaps it was a special kind of camouflage.

Strange Tactics

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