Get That Rust Bucket Out of Here” — The Royal Navy Joke That Accidentally Annihilated 8 U-Boats. nu
Get That Rust Bucket Out of Here” — The Royal Navy Joke That Accidentally Annihilated 8 U-Boats May 7th, 1943, North Atlantic. 52N 31W, Commander Frederick John Walker paces the bridge of HMS Starling as another convoy burns on the…
They Aren’t Soldiers, They’re Beasts”— Why US Troops Refused To Follow Australian SAS Into Uruzgan. nu
They Aren’t Soldiers, They’re Beasts”— Why US Troops Refused To Follow Australian SAS Into Uruzgan Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. 3:00 a.m. A United States special forces soldier stands at the edge of a forward operating base and watches a convoy of…
18-Year-Old German POW “Insane” Bandage Hack Saved 34 POWs from Infected Wounds at U.S POW Camp. nu
18-Year-Old German POW “Insane” Bandage Hack Saved 34 POWs from Infected Wounds at U.S POW Camp The camp doctor stands in the medical barracks doorway and stares at something he does not understand. 34 German prisoners of war are sitting…
Japanese Admirals Mocked Essex Carriers — Then 17 of Them Showed Up at Leyte Gulf! nu
Japanese Admirals Mocked Essex Carriers — Then 17 of Them Showed Up at Leyte Gulf! October 24th, 1944, 10:47 in the morning. The Sibuyan Sea. Roar. A 1,000-lb American bomb slams into the flight deck of the super battleship Musashi…
“Your Cameras Saw Nothing” — The Most Disrespectful SAS Raid That Humiliated The US Army. nu
“Your Cameras Saw Nothing” — The Most Disrespectful SAS Raid That Humiliated The US Army A general in the United States Army went to sleep one night inside the most heavily defended field headquarters his country had ever assembled on…
They Treated Her Like a Cadet — Until a Marine Stood and Shouted, ‘Iron Wolf, Stand By.’ nu
They Treated Her Like a Cadet — Until a Marine Stood and Shouted, ‘Iron Wolf, Stand By.’ She walked into the most dangerous forward operating base in the valley and the battle-hardened infantrymen laughed, literally handing her a mop. They…
Why Patton Turned His Entire Army 90 Degrees — In Just 48 Hours. nu
Why Patton Turned His Entire Army 90 Degrees — In Just 48 Hours December 19th, 1944, 1100 hours. A conference room in the French city of Verdun, where 26 years earlier over 300,000 men had died in trenches that still…
The 20 Hours 18 American Soldiers Stopped Germany’s Entire SS Panzer Army. nu
The 20 Hours 18 American Soldiers Stopped Germany’s Entire SS Panzer Army At 5:30 in the morning on December 16, 1944, First Lieutenant Lyle Bouck Jr. lay in a foxhole on a frozen hillside in eastern Belgium watching the forest…
German Units Took Cover — Then American Fire Turned It Into a Death Trap. nu
German Units Took Cover — Then American Fire Turned It Into a Death Trap December 19th, 1944, at 6:47 a.m. in the Ardennes Forest, Belgium. The trees stood like black sentinels in the pre-dawn dark. Their bare branches clawing at…
“The Australians Wouldn’t Go, So the British Did” — The Desert Patrol That Changed North Africa. nu
“The Australians Wouldn’t Go, So the British Did” — The Desert Patrol That Changed North Africa Six weeks. That’s how long a British major with sand in his boots and a sun compass he’d built himself was given to create…