A Group of Female POWs Faced Their Greatest Fear—Only to Discover the Americans’ True Intentions. VD
A Group of Female POWs Faced Their Greatest Fear—Only to Discover the Americans’ True Intentions April 29th, 1945. The world did not end with a bang, but with the wet slap of pine needles against a teenage girl’s face. For…
German POW Grandmothers Were Left to Die — U.S. Soldiers Carried Them 12 Miles to Medical Care. VD
German POW Grandmothers Were Left to Die — U.S. Soldiers Carried Them 12 Miles to Medical Care Twelve Miles of Mercy (Bavaria — April 1945) Chapter 1 — The Clearing in the Pines The road through the Bavarian forest was…
(1901, Wyoming) The Macabre Legend of Tom Horn – Justice or Cold-Blooded Murder in the OLD WEST?. VD
(1901, Wyoming) The Macabre Legend of Tom Horn – Justice or Cold-Blooded Murder in the OLD WEST? The Silent Valor: A Soldier’s Fight for Honor It was a cold November morning in 1944, the kind that gnawed at your bones…
German Infantry Mocked US Rifle Technology – Then M1 Garand Fired 8 Shots to Their 1. VD
German Infantry Mocked US Rifle Technology – Then M1 Garand Fired 8 Shots to Their 1 Page 1 — The Ping in the Mist December 7th, 1943, broke cold and colorless in the mountains of central Italy. The kind of…
Why US Tankers Started Welding “German Trash” On Shermans — And Saved 1,500 Lives In Days. VD
Why US Tankers Started Welding “German Trash” On Shermans — And Saved 1,500 Lives In Days The Rhino Cutter: How Curtis Cullen Changed the Battle of Normandy On the morning of July 13th, 1944, Staff Sergeant Curtis “Cullen” Grub watched…
A Cowboy Found a German POW Soldier Lost in the Desert for 5 Days — What He Did Was Reported. VD
A Cowboy Found a German POW Soldier Lost in the Desert for 5 Days — What He Did Was Reported WHEN THE DESERT CHOSE MERCY A Story from the American Home Front, 1944 Chapter I – The Man in the…
German POWs Saw Their First American Suburb — They Thought It Was Built Just to TRICK Them. VD
German POWs Saw Their First American Suburb — They Thought It Was Built Just to TRICK Them The Neighborhood That Couldn’t Be Real A World War II story (about 2,000 words) Chapter 1 — The Train Window (New Jersey, 1945)…
A 12-Year-Old German Boy Refused to Cry When His Sister Died — When He Finally Did, It Lasted. VD
A 12-Year-Old German Boy Refused to Cry When His Sister Died — When He Finally Did, It Lasted The Boy Who Would Not Cry A World War II story (about 2,000 words) Chapter 1 — The Grave in Berlin (February…
The Medic’s Heartbreak: Why a Simple Complaint from a German Woman POW Left a US Medic in Tears. VD
The Medic’s Heartbreak: Why a Simple Complaint from a German Woman POW Left a US Medic in Tears In a clearing of skeletal beech trees somewhere west of the Elbe River, the rain didn’t fall so much as it seeped…
The Deadly Dentist: They Laughed at His Medical Degree Until He Held an Island Alone Against 98 Soldiers. VD
The Deadly Dentist: They Laughed at His Medical Degree Until He Held an Island Alone Against 98 Soldiers At 5:47 a.m. on July 7, 1944, on the blood-soaked island of Saipan, the traditional rules of war evaporated. Captain Benjamin Salomon, a…