How One Farm Kid’s “Hay Bale Ambush” Captured 34 German Soldiers. NU
How One Farm Kid’s “Hay Bale Ambush” Captured 34 German Soldiers At 1:47 p.m. on September 18th, 1944, crouched inside a hollowed hay bale near Einhovven, Netherlands, watching 34 German soldiers marched directly toward his position. He had no radio,…
Engineers Called a 1,000-Pound Cannon “Pilot Suicide” — Until It Stopped a 2,000-Ton Warship. NU
Engineers Called a 1,000-Pound Cannon “Pilot Suicide” — Until It Stopped a 2,000-Ton Warship At 9:17 a.m. on a humid morning in early 1942, a twin engine bomber hurtled just 50 feet above the Pacific. Salt spray slapped its aluminum…
Iraq Sent Tanks — US Marines Stopped Them Without Using Tanks. NU
Iraq Sent Tanks — US Marines Stopped Them Without Using Tanks It’s January 29th, 1991, just after dusk. There is no moon, none at all. The border between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia is nothing but a black ribbon of sand…
From Terror to Treatment: Japanese Women POWs Shook as U.S. Medics Cleaned Their Wounds.NU.
From Terror to Treatment: Japanese Women POWs Shook as U.S. Medics Cleaned Their Wounds June 1945, Okinawa—where the air itself felt bruised by weeks of shelling. The road into the U.S. field hospital ran through a landscape that looked flayed…
“From Chains to Compassion: German Women POWs Stunned by Texas Cowboys’ Unexpected Mercy”. NU.
“From Chains to Compassion: German Women POWs Stunned by Texas Cowboys’ Unexpected Mercy” July 1945. The Texas sun was a living thing, pressing down on the canvas roof of the transport truck like a giant hand. Inside, the air stank…
“Inside America’s POW Camps: German Women Prisoners Horrified by Brutal Cage Confinement”.NU.
“Inside America’s POW Camps: German Women Prisoners Horrified by Brutal Cage Confinement” They arrived in the dead heat of a Mississippi summer, battered by defeat, haunted by propaganda, and terrified of what awaited them. For 347 German women, July 1945…
“Against All Odds: German Woman POW Pulled Back from the Abyss”. NU.
“Against All Odds: German Woman POW Pulled Back from the Abyss” February 21st, 1945. The outskirts of Düren, Germany, lay in ruins—streets torn apart by shellfire, buildings reduced to jagged skeletons, the air thick with the bitter scent of cordite…
“Six Words in the Night: The Shocking Truth Behind German POW Girls’ Forced Ride”. NU.
“Six Words in the Night: The Shocking Truth Behind German POW Girls’ Forced Ride” March 1945. The war was ending, but for twenty-three German women—nurses, radio operators, clerks—the ending felt more dangerous than the fighting ever had. They stood in…
“Hunted by Her Own, Shielded by Foes: The POW Nurse Who Changed the Fate of 31 U.S. Soldiers”. NU.
“Hunted by Her Own, Shielded by Foes: The POW Nurse Who Changed the Fate of 31 U.S. Soldiers” December 1944. The Ardennes forest was a frozen graveyard, the snow falling thick and silent over the shattered remains of war. In…
“German POW Woman Forced to Give Birth in a Barn… Then the Americans Did the Unthinkable”.NU.
“German POW Woman Forced to Give Birth in a Barn… Then the Americans Did the Unthinkable” They told her the Americans would laugh if she begged. That they would let women suffer just to prove who had won. That captivity would strip…