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MEET THE WOMAN THAT BROKE WORLD RECORD BY SLEEPING WITH 919 MEN. The American Matured movie actress and director Lisa sparks popularly called Lisa Sparxxx (born October 6, 1977) competed against two other women one of which was the former world record holder who literally made love with 759 men in a day. The very nature of their work requires them to make love to many different people. But no person took this to the extreme, and in the process created a new world record. That person is matured movie actress Lisa Sparxxx who made love to 919 men in only one day.

A few years back, a war correspondent released some footage of their time attached to a Royal Marine Section on patrol in Afghanistan. Those were professional soldiers, babysitting an embedded journalist. The eight man section moved carefully in a loose formation, talking amongst themselves as they cleared possible threats and scouted ahead.  Everything seemed fine, the countryside looked picturesque and peaceful as the small detachment walked through fields and along drainage ditches. Suddenly, clouds of dust start leaping up all around the section, followed by loud cracks and the repetitive thud of heavy automatic machine gun fire. Within the blink of an eye, the royal marines respond to the ambush, some of them dropped to a knee laying down suppressive fire while rest moved to a nearby stone wall (unceremoniously dragging the journalist with them). Bullets were hammering their position, dust was everywhere obscuring their sight, frankly, they were just eight men hopelessly isola...

24th January 1944:At Minturno, Italy, Private George Mitchell charged alone through intense machine-gun fire, jumped into the weapon pit and killed the crew. Shortly afterwards, he similarly assaulted a second position, killing six of the enemy and taking 12 prisoners. The citation in the London Gazette of 8th August, 1944, gives the following details: On the night of 23/24th January 1944, a company of the London Scottish was ordered to make a local attack on a part of the Damiano ridge, north-east of Minturno. A section of this company was responsible for carrying out a flanking attack on some enemy machine-guns which were holding up the advance. This section consisted of a Lance-Corporal and three privates, who were joined by Private Mitchell (the 2-inch mortarman from platoon headquarters) and another private. When an enemy machine-gun post opened fire on them at point-blank range, Private Mitchell, dropping his mortar, charged the position alone with a rifle and bayonet, and sil...

Did Churchill have a plan if Germany invaded Britain? Yes, detailed plans were drawn up, fortifications quickly built, mines laid, 1.5m men enrolled into the ‘Home Guard’ alongside the 300k who made it back from Dunkirk, however, they were desperately short of equipment, some shipments of old WW1 rifles came in from the US. The main plan of course involved the RAF, an to deny the Germans air superiority. We now know this worked, however, had that failed, every Royal Naval vessel would have been called to the English channel, to try and destroy the German invasion fleet while in the water.  Had the Germans had made landfall, then Churchill had agreed to use chemical warfare. Any German soldiers on the south coast of England would have been bombed with mustard Gas.  As we know, gas had not been used so far in WW2, but, when it came to the question of national survival the gloves were off.

On the 28th January 1944, German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring ordered a counterattack against the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy. Operation ‘Shingle’ was launched on 22 January 1944, four days after a new US Fifth Army attack on the Garigliano and Rapido rivers near Cassino. British 1st Infantry Division under Major General Ronald Penney, supported by 46th Royal Tank Regiment and commandos of 2nd Special Service Brigade, landed north of Anzio. The US 3rd Infantry Division under Major General Lucian Truscott, supported by a tank battalion, three battalions of Rangers and an Airborne battalion, landed south of the port. Tactical surprise had been achieved and the landings were virtually unopposed. A handful of Luftwaffe aircraft got through the Allied fighter umbrella to strafe the ships, but the Allies lost only 13 men killed and 97 wounded. Anzio itself had been abandoned by the Germans and its civilian population moved out. Many German units had been deployed further south to ...

On January 26, 1945, near the village of Holtzwihr in eastern France, Lt. Murphy's forward positions came under fierce attack by the Germans. Against the onslaught of six Panzer tanks and 250 infantrymen, Murphy ordered his men to fall back to better their defenses. Alone, he mounted an abandoned, burning tank destroyer and, with a single machine gun, contested the enemy's advance. Wounded in the leg during the heavy fire, Murphy remained there for nearly an hour, repelling the attack of German soldiers on three sides and single-handedly killing 50 of them. His courageous performance stalled the German advance and allowed him to lead his men in the counterattack which ultimately drove the enemy from Holtzwihr. For this, Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest award for gallantry in action. Born the son of Texas sharecroppers on June 20, 1925, Murphy served three years of active duty, beginning as a private, rising to the rank of staff sergean...

Harold Alva Garman: Garman joined the Army from Albion, Illinois in 1942, and by August 25, 1944, was a private serving as a medic in Company B, 5th Medical Battalion, 5th Infantry Division. On that day, near Montereau, France, he participated in the evacuation of wounded soldiers across the Seine river. When a boat loaded with wounded came under fire from a German machine gun on the opposite bank, Garman dove into the river, swam into the machine gun fire to reach the boat and towed it to safety.  For these actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor seven months later, on March 29, 1945. Garman reached the rank of technician fifth grade before leaving the Army. He married Mary I. Jones and had two children, Steven and Sherry. He died at age 74 and was buried at Samaria Baptist Church in Albion, Illinois. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. On 25 August 1944, in the vicinity of Montereau, France, the enemy was sha...

Ukraine is planning a new counteroffensive for 2024. Where can it start? We don't know what Ukraine’s next combat operation will look like, how big it will be, or from where it will be launched. One of the things that didn’t work well in Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive was OpSec (operational security). Too much information, including the complete battle plan, had been leaked (intentionally or not) by incompetent officials. Hopefully, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have learned from their experiences. Training for the troops participating in future offensives has to be expanded. At the same time, there should be some changes at the leadership and planning levels. Ready to strike: a Ukrainian tank crew in a standby position near the frontline. (Picture: Scott Peterson). There's still a lot of work to do. At this moment, we are still months away from seeing the AFU putting a plan into action. However, this doesn’t mean that we won’t see any Ukrainian attacks in the coming ...

Are there any veterans out there that have found that they are at a disadvantage in the civilian world due to their military service? If you have served for a longer time, there is always the risk that you’ve become institutionalized. In other words, you've forgotten to think independently because the army has a narrow and regulated way of doing things. One of the old Quorans, the late Rory Young, once complained that the two French foreign legionnaires that he had hired as park rangers in Africa were completely useless because they were used to getting orders to perform even the smallest tasks. They didn't move if no sergeant was breathing down their necks. Another problem with longer serving career militaries is what I always call “cerebral atrophy”. The army tells you a million times not to think (in Germany, we even have an army saying that goes: “Leave the thinking to the horses, they have bigger heads than you!”). Then one day, before you even became aware of it, your...

Corporal John Harper of the British York and Lancaster Regiment led his section across 300 yards of open ground under heavy fire to support his comrades at Antwerp, Belgium. For this he would be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. John William Harper was born in Hatfield, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England,on the 6th August 1916 to George Ernest Harper and his wife, Florence Parkin. Corporal Harper led his section straight up to the wall and killed or captured the enemy holding the near side. During this operation the platoon commander was seriously wounded and Corporal Harper took over control of the platoon. As the enemy on the far side of the wall were now throwing grenades over the top, Corporal Harper climbed over the wall alone, throwing grenades, and in the face of heavy, close range small arms fire, personally routed the Germans directly opposing him. He took four prisoners and shot several of the remainder of the enemy as they fled. Still completely ignoring the heav...

Which are the most interesting facts about paratroopers? The unit with the most parachute jumps into a combat zone in history wasn't even a paratrooper unit. It was also not one of those Special Ops or Marine units we hear people talking about all the time. Instead, they came from a tiny, poorly equipped and totally underfunded military. During the Rhodesian Bush War (1964–79), the Rhodesian Army’s light infantry units had received additional parachute training to act as an airborne counterinsurgency strike force. A Rhodesian Army “Fireforce” unit waiting for their orders to go into action (Photo: johnwynnehopkin). They were fighting against a communist insurgency backed by the Soviet Union. As the country was big and the roads were bad, the only way to get a counterinsurgency force quickly enough into combat was by air. Unfortunately, however, the Rhodesian army had only a few small Alouette III helicopters in their arsenal, not enough to carry enough sold...

On this day 9th July 1944: Major Frank Blaker of the British Royal Gurkha Rifles regiment won the Victoria Cross at Taunghi, Burma. Charging Japanese positions he was hit three times but continued to urge his men forward even as he lays dying. "In Burma on 9th July, 1944, a Company of the 9th Gurkha Rifles was ordered to carry out a wide, encircling movement across unknown and precipitous country, through dense jungle, to attack a strong enemy position on the summit of an important hill overlooking Taungni. Major Blaker carried out this movement with the utmost precision and took up a position with his Company on the extreme right flank of the enemy, in itself a feat of ' considerable military skill. Another Company, after bitter fighting, had succeeded in taking the forward edge of the enemy position by a frontal assault, but had failed to reach the main crest of the hill in the face of fierce opposition. At this crucial moment Major Blaker's Company came under heavy a...

October 15, 1917, Dancer and spy Mata Hari is executed by firing squad.  Mata Hari spent much of her career claiming that she was raised as an Indian temple dancer. In reality, however, she was born Margaretha Zelle on August 7, 1876, and grew up the daughter of a haberdasher in the Dutch town of Leeuwarden.  Desperate for adventure, at age 18 she answered a newspaper ad and wed a much older army captain named Rudolf MacLeod.  His military career later took the couple to Indonesia, where they had two children, but their marriage was plagued by infidelity and domestic violence. Following the death of their young son, they moved back to Europe and divorced.  The 27-year-old Margaretha was left impoverished. In 1903, after losing custody of her daughter, she moved to Paris and looked to start over. “I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun,” she later said. It was in the City of Lights that Margaretha Zelle reinvented herself as an artist. Drawing on her ex...

On 20 January 1942, leading Nazi officials met at the Wannsee Conference Villa in Wannsee, a south-western suburb of Berlin. The conference had been called to discuss and coordinate a cheaper, more efficient, and permanent solution to the Nazis’ ‘Jewish problem’. The conference was attended by senior government and SS officials, and coordinated by Reinhard Heydrich. In July 1941, Hermann Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler’s number-two man, to submit “as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative, material, and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.” Heydrich met with Adolf Eichmann, chief of the Central Office of Jewish Emigration, and 15 other officials from various Nazi ministries and organizations at Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin. The agenda was simple and focused: to devise a plan that would render a “final solution to the Jewish question...

How do soldiers not fall off the sides of helicopters when they simply just sit hanging on the 'ledge' on the sides of the helicopter, especially when the helicopter is tilting while turning? First of all, it does actually happen in real life. Not too often, but it does. For example, the Air Force PJ's like to fly like that. The Army can, but we're restricted on our flying a bit if we do, plus you don't really lose anything by closing the doors and using seats. I pretty consistently fly around with my legs hanging over because I'm in a MEDEVAC unit and that's how we run the rescue hoist. In reality, it's pretty safe and stable. When a group has their legs out, there's typically a cargo strap or other safety device across the door as added insurance, but most of what keeps you in is gravity and the motion of the aircraft. It feels like sitting on the stairs for most of the ride. When I'm running hoist, I have a monkey tail from the back of ...

October 16, 1946, Nazi war criminals executed at Nuremberg, Germany, 10 high-ranking Nazi officials are executed by hanging for their crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, and war crimes during World War II. Two weeks earlier, the 10 were found guilty by the International War Crimes Tribunal and sentenced to death along with two other Nazi officials.  Among those condemned to die by hanging were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi minister of foreign affairs; Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force; Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior; and Alfred Rosenberg, head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.  Others, including Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s former deputy, were given prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life. Three others were acquitted. The trial, which had lasted nearly 10 months, was conducted by an international tribunal made up of representatives from the United States, the USSR, France, and Great Brita...

January 20th 1944, journalists visited US 5307th Composite Unit at Camp Deogarh, Central Provinces, India. The unit's commanding officer Frank Merrill was also present. During this visit, James Shepley of Life Magazine came up with the Merrill's Marauders nickname for the unit.  Dave Richardson of Yank Magazine, who actually remained to report alongside the unit, preferred Dead End Kids as the nickname as he observed the soldiers not as a group of elite marauders but rather a high-spirited ragtag band of volunteers and cast-offs. Officially, they were the 5307th Composite Unit.To the transportation planners, they were Shipment 1688. Operationally, they were Galahad Force.  The story of their campaign in the jungles of northern Burma showed the capabilities of this improvised force of American soldiers.  They gained surprise by undertaking seemingly impossible marches through mountainous jungle and defeated numerically superior forces of the Imperial Japanese Army that pre...

I went to the wedding of an SAS officer, all the soldiers dressed in fancy garb and had swords.  During the reception one of the soldiers started to talk about what horrible things he’d done in the line of duty and he became quite aggressive towards me for, seemingly, no other reason than I was the only civilian man at the table.  He was very drunk and one of his mates suggested I moved to another table. I got the feeling that more than a couple of those guys had seen some dark times fairly recently to that event.  A couple of the guys there seemed quite posh to me, whereas some of the others seemed very working class. As we all excited the church we all walked beneath their swords similar to what’s shown in the pic below. (I’m aware that these aren’t the correct uniforms; I’m simply using it as an illustration of what I saw). My home town became a garrison town for a regiment of Gurkhas. I got chatting to one of these guys once and he had a thick east London accent. ...

What happens if you are left behind in combat? This happens from time to time. The battlefield is a chaotic mess where people can get lost. When we returned from the battlefield or a combat operation in Bosnia, we always counted our troops to make sure that no one was left behind. If somebody was missing, we would simply wait. For sure, there were no search parties looking for them, we had already lost enough soldiers. A German Army infantry soldier during a survival exercise. Most combat troops train for situations where a single soldier got lost behind enemy lines. (Photo: Main Post) If you are the lost man, you have to try to get back to your own troops. Most often, this is quite easy and if you’re not a total fool, you’ll reach them in no time. If you were overrun by the enemy, things get a bit more complicated. You should find a good hiding place and wait for the night. More important than quickly reaching your own lines is not to get caught by the enemy. Take your time, d...

On this days 1944: The British government issued a protest to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, via the Swiss Foreign Ministry, over the brutal treatment by Japanese submariners toward survivors of their conquests. The British demanded "immediate instructions to prevent the repetition of similar atrocities and to take disciplinary action against those responsible. Japanese maritime atrocities were committed by both Navy and submarine personnel against all allied nations. On the merchant ship Daisy Moller, 53 of her crew were machine-gunned to death by the crew of the Japanese submarine RO-110 , after the submarine had rammed the lifeboats. Only 16 crew members survived. The Nancy Moller, en route from Durban to Colombo, sunk by the I-165 on March 18, 1944. Thirty two of the crew were killed by pistol and machine-gun fire. The SS Ascot sank on February 29, 1944, after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Indian Ocean. Survivors were machine-gunned on the rafts and in the...

On the 2nd of September 1944, German Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel, head of Oberkommando der Heeres (OKH), ordered that "Malingerers and cowardly shirkers, including officers" should be executed immediately. Keitel was Hitler's yes man in the Army High Command. According to his contemporaries Keitel would not disagree with Hitler on any point. When, on 8 September 1941, OKW issued its ruthless regulations for the treatment of Soviet POW'S, Canaris wrote to Keitel that under international law the SD should have nothing to do with this matter. 0n this memorandum in Keitel's handwriting, dated 23 September and initialed by him, is the statement: "The objections arise from the military concept of chivalrous warfare. This is the destruction of an ideology. Therefore I approve and back the measures." Keitel testified at Nuremberg that he really agreed with Canaris and argued with Hitler, but lost. A quote from the Reprisal Order issued by Field Marsha...