How a US Soldier`s ‘Human Target Trick’ Killed 19 Germans in a 200-Yard Charge at Anzio .NU
How a US Soldier`s ‘Human Target Trick’ Killed 19 Germans in a 200-Yard Charge at Anzio May 24th, 1944. Second day of the Anzio breakthrough. Sergeento Sylvester Antlak crouched in mud churned wheat fields southeast of Sister Deatoria, watching two…
America Had No RUBBER in 1942 — So They Invented Synthetic Rubber From Oil .NU
America Had No RUBBER in 1942 — So They Invented Synthetic Rubber From Oil December 8th, 1941, Washington DC. The day after Pearl Harbor. While Americans absorb the shock of war, a handful of men in a war department conference…
They Ordered Him Not to Fire — 4 Minutes Later, 12 Bf 109s Were Gone .NU
They Ordered Him Not to Fire — 4 Minutes Later, 12 Bf 109s Were Gone In the freezing skies over a wartorrn continent, a lone gunner is about to make a choice. It’s a choice that everyone from his commanders…
When They Put .50 Cals on Harley-Davidsons — Germans Called Them “Devil Bikes” .NU
When They Put .50 Cals on Harley-Davidsons — Germans Called Them “Devil Bikes” August 7th, 1944. 0515 hours near Mortaine, Normandy, France. The German sentry heard them before he saw them. A deep rhythmic rumble that didn’t match any vehicle…
How a US Sniper’s ‘Telephone Line Trick’ Killed 96 Germans and Saved His Brothers in Arms .NU
How a US Sniper’s ‘Telephone Line Trick’ Killed 96 Germans and Saved His Brothers in Arms January 24th, 1945. Alzas. A German soldier fell dead in the snow. Then another, then three more. In the minutes that followed, 50 German…
“You Are Still Nurses” – German Women POWs Shocked by How America Treated Them .NU
“You Are Still Nurses” – German Women POWs Shocked by How America Treated Them June 1945, a gray troop ship rocks against the waves of the Atlantic. Below deck, 147 German women sit in darkness. Nurses, prisoners, enemies of the…
Japan Thought Alaska Highway Impossible — Until US Army Built It In 200 Days .NU
Japan Thought Alaska Highway Impossible — Until US Army Built It In 200 Days October 25, 1942, Beaver Creek, Yukon Territory. Temperatures hovering at 14 degrees below zero. Corporal Refined Sims Jr. of the 97th Engineer Regiment sits a top…
Christina Hendricks: The Turning Point of Beauty in Hollywood_USt
Christina Hendricks: The Turning Point of Beauty in Hollywood There are stories in Hollywood cinema that you think you already know, until one actress appears and changes everything. Christina Hendricks is that story. And if you stay with me until…
How The US Navy Built Modular Floating Docks That Carried Entire Tank Battalions To Normandy .NU
How The US Navy Built Modular Floating Docks That Carried Entire Tank Battalions To Normandy April 15, 1944. Thalmouth, England. Lieutenant Commander Harold Parker stands at the edge of a British naval dock, staring at what appears to be a…
Was Churchill sagte, als Patton in 36 Stunden 150 km vorrückte und 1.200 Männer am Rhein rettete .NE
Was Churchill sagte, als Patton in 36 Stunden 150 km vorrückte und 1.200 Männer am Rhein rettete 22. März 1945. Rhein, Deutschland. Der Krieg in Europa trat in seine Endphase ein. Die alliierten Armeen drangen von Westen her tief nach…