We published a lot of stories here on HistoryNet.com in 2022: Over 1,100 as of this writing! And you, our readers, spent a lot of time reading our site, too — nearly 26 million minutes in all. But of all those stories, five grabbed your attention and kept you reading longer than any others, and we wanted to showcase them here today:
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Reginald V. Jones, a genius in physics, developed new systems and tactics that thwarted the German High Command.
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Failure to detect a long-running Abwehr counterintelligence operation cost the SOE numerous secrets—and lives.
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Japanese general Masaharu Homma’s fate hinged on whether he had permitted the torture and murder of American and Filipino POWs. His court case wasn’t so cut and dry.
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One of the top Commonwealth pilots during the Battle of Britain, Colin Falkland Gray went on to become New Zealand’s ace of aces.
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Louis, America’s heavyweight champion and a Black man, duked it out with Max Schmeling, who had become a symbol for the racist Nazi regime.
