The Great American Lie: Why These German POWs Expected Brutality but Found an Impossible Mercy. NU.
The Great American Lie: Why These German POWs Expected Brutality but Found an Impossible Mercy The ruins of Cherbourg, France, in late June 1944, smelled of pulverized stone, saltwater, and the metallic tang of cordite. For nineteen-year-old Anneliese V., a…
Silent Sanctuary: The Moment a Terrified German Woman Realized Her American Guard Wasn’t a Monster. NU.
Silent Sanctuary: The Moment a Terrified German Woman Realized Her American Guard Wasn’t a Monster The air in the Harz Forest on April 20, 1945, tasted of pine needles and cold, metallic cordite. For Helga Schmidt, a twenty-year-old signals clerk…
Why a U.S. Medic Ignored Protocol and Tore Open a German POW’s Uniform? NU.
Why a U.S. Medic Ignored Protocol and Tore Open a German POW’s Uniform? The east bank of the Rhine was a graveyard for a thousand years of German history. On March 25th, 1945, just outside the skeletal ruins of Wesel,…
What Eisenhower Said When Patton Stole 500,000 Gallons of Fuel. NU
What Eisenhower Said When Patton Stole 500,000 Gallons of Fuel August 30th, 1944. Somewhere near the Belgian border. It was pitch black. Rain was hammering against the canvas roofs of a convoy of US Army trucks. These trucks were moving…
What Eisenhower Said When Patton Stole Montgomery’s Glory at the Rhine. NU
What Eisenhower Said When Patton Stole Montgomery’s Glory at the Rhine March 22nd, 1945. The Rine River. One word echoed through every Allied command post from Paris to the front lines. Impossible. The Rine was Hitler’s last natural barrier. Military…
The Sinking of the IJN Shinano: A Tragic WWII Story. NU
The Sinking of the IJN Shinano: A Tragic WWII Story In the quiet pre-dawn blackness of November 28th, 1944, something immense slipped through the waters off the coast of Japan, it moved like a phantom, a ghost of impossible scale,…
The Phone Call That Made Eisenhower CRY – Patton’s 4 Words That Changed Everything. NU
The Phone Call That Made Eisenhower CRY – Patton’s 4 Words That Changed Everything December16th, 1944. If General George Smith Patton hadn’t made one phone call, if he hadn’t spoken four impossible words, the United States would have lost its…
Wie ein „verrückter“ Fußabdrucktrick eines Apachen eine versteckte japanische Basis im Dschungel entlarvte. DE
Wie ein „verrückter“ Fußabdrucktrick eines Apachen eine versteckte japanische Basis im Dschungel entlarvte 15. Mai 1943. Das dichte Blätterdach des Dschungels von Neuguinea filterte die Nachmittagssonne und warf vereinzelte goldene Lichtflecken auf den schlammigen Pfad. Sergeant James Whitehorse von der…
Warum ein U-Boot-Koch anfing, „Abfälle“ ins Wasser zu werfen – und jedes U-Boot versenkte, das er fand. DE
Warum ein U-Boot-Koch anfing, „Abfälle“ ins Wasser zu werfen – und jedes U-Boot versenkte, das er fand. 14. März 1943, Nordatlantik, 610 km südwestlich von Island. Die Besatzung der HMS Starling, einer britischen Fregatte der River-Klasse, beobachtete, wie das Gesicht…
I generali iracheni sono rimasti scioccati quando i marines americani hanno fermato la loro invasione corazzata senza carri armati. NI
I generali iracheni sono rimasti scioccati quando i marines americani hanno fermato la loro invasione corazzata senza carri armati La data è il 29 gennaio 1991. Il luogo è il confine bruciato e senza luna che separa il Kuwait occupato…