He Turned a Machine Gun Into a Sniper Rifle — 93 Kills Made the Viet Cong Put a Bounty on His Head. nu
He Turned a Machine Gun Into a Sniper Rifle — 93 Kills Made the Viet Cong Put a Bounty on His Head In the summer of 1967, on a mountain position overlooking a valley infested with North Vietnamese Army regulars,…
They Mocked His ‘Black Sheep’ Squadron — They Destroyed 94 Planes in 12 Weeks. nu
They Mocked His ‘Black Sheep’ Squadron — They Destroyed 94 Planes in 12 Weeks At 0730 on the morning of September 16th, 1943, 27 Marine pilots stood in the tropical heat on a dirt airstrip called Munda on the island…
139 Americans Burned Alive — When Japan Tried to Erase the Evidence and Silence the Only Witness. nu
139 Americans Burned Alive — When Japan Tried to Erase the Evidence and Silence the Only Witness They heard American planes overhead and smiled. After three years in hell, after Batan, after the death march, after watching their friends die…
ONE PHOTO. TWO REALITIES — When Japan Used Her Face for Propaganda and Raped Her Behind the Camera. nu
ONE PHOTO. TWO REALITIES — When Japan Used Her Face for Propaganda and Raped Her Behind the Camera She smiled at the camera when the US Navy used her photo to sell war bonds while she was scheduled for execution…
How Capable Was the British Army in WWII? A Closer Look. nu
How Capable Was the British Army in WWII? A Closer Look The British army in the Second World War has often been overshadowed by the Soviet Union’s immense sacrifices on the Eastern Front and by America’s staggering industrial output. Yet,…
Every Rank in British Army During WW2 Explained in 15 minutes. nu
Every Rank in British Army During WW2 Explained in 15 minutes During the Second World War, the British Army swelled from roughly 900,000 men and women to nearly 3 million at its peak with hundreds of thousands more serving in…
The ‘Strange’ British Armoured Car That Chased Down German Tanks Instead of Fleeing From Them. nu
The ‘Strange’ British Armoured Car That Chased Down German Tanks Instead of Fleeing From Them June 1941. The war in North Africa had been raging for a full year, and the British were losing. General Irwin Rummel and his Africa…
“One Shot, No Trace” — The Australian SAS Sniper Kill That Stopped an Entire NVA Advance in Vietnam. nu
“One Shot, No Trace” — The Australian SAS Sniper Kill That Stopped an Entire NVA Advance in Vietnam The radio operator heard the shot before anyone else understood what had happened. A single crack, distant and clean, rolling across the…
10 American Rifles and Infantry Weapons That Made the German Army Fear the U.S.. nu
10 American Rifles and Infantry Weapons That Made the German Army Fear the U.S. A German soldier who had been fighting British or French infantry knew what incoming rifle fire sounded like. It came in bursts, three rounds, maybe four,…
The Dark Reason Germans Hated the American M1897 Trench Gun. nu
The Dark Reason Germans Hated the American M1897 Trench Gun In World War I, death usually came from far away. Machine guns firing across no man’s land, but the American M1897 trench gun was effective at close range. In the…