The Siege of Candia, the then capital of the Venetian held Mediterranean island of Crete by the Ottoman Empire in the 1600’s, is widely regarded as the longest siege in history. The Ottoman’s began the siege of the city in 1648, and in the year 1669 finally took over the city after twenty one years...
Operation VengeanceOn April 18th 1943 a group of 18 American fighters, piloted by a hand picked group of airmen was sent to find and shoot down the airplane transporting Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Yamamoto was the Commander of the combined fleet of the Japanese Imperial Navy as well as the man responsible for the...
