“They Screamed ‘It’s Poison!’ — Starving Japanese Female POWs Rejected the Food… So the U.S. Cook Took the First Bite. NU
“They Screamed ‘It’s Poison!’ — Starving Japanese Female POWs Rejected the Food… So the U.S. Cook Took the First Bite Chapter I – The Caves of Saipan July 1944.The island of Saipan burned beneath a merciless sun. Inside a limestone…
“Take My Life, Not Hers” — The POW Standoff That Ended in an Unexpected Act of Mercy. NU
“Take My Life, Not Hers” — The POW Standoff That Ended in an Unexpected Act of Mercy **Chapter One The Last Days of a Broken Nation** In the spring of 1945, Germany was no longer fighting for victory. It was…
A German torpedo blew a hole in his ship, but the Captain sailed 800 miles on hope alone. NU
A German torpedo blew a hole in his ship, but the Captain sailed 800 miles on hope alone The North Atlantic in February 1943 was a graveyard of twisted steel and frozen dreams. The air was a razor-sharp 20 degrees,…
They called these tanks scrap metal, then 3 “junk” Shermans stopped a German blitz in 30 minutes. NU
They called these tanks scrap metal, then 3 “junk” Shermans stopped a German blitz in 30 minutes The fog over the Ardennes in December 1944 was not merely a weather pattern; it was a shroud for a dying empire’s last…
61 plywood planes vs. the German Army: One night’s suicide mission saved thousands of lives. NU
61 plywood planes vs. the German Army: One night’s suicide mission saved thousands of lives At 07:00 on December 27, 1944, Flight Officer Robert Mitchell sat in the cockpit of a Waco CG-4A glider at an airfield in France, watching ground crews…
“You’re Too Thin to Work” — What Cowboys Did to German POW Women Instead SHOCKED the Army. VD
“You’re Too Thin to Work” — What Cowboys Did to German POW Women Instead SHOCKED the Army 1) The Gate at Camp Hearne Texas, summer 1944. Heat shimmered across the hardpan like liquid glass, distorting the far horizon where cattle…
German POW Mother Watched American Soldiers Take Her 3 Children Away — What Happened 2 Days Later. VD
German POW Mother Watched American Soldiers Take Her 3 Children Away — What Happened 2 Days Later 1) The Dust and the Door Arizona, August 1945. Dust hung in the air outside Camp Papago Park, turning the afternoon sun into…
German POW Women Got Pregnant by Texas Cowboys — The FBI Started an Investigation. VD
German POW Women Got Pregnant by Texas Cowboys — The FBI Started an Investigation 1) Orders in the Panhandle Texas, October 1945. Special Agent Thomas Crawford stepped off the train in Amarillo with a briefcase, a hat tilted against the…
German Families Broke Down When U.S. Soldiers Saved Their Children from Starvation. VD
German Families Broke Down When U.S. Soldiers Saved Their Children from Starvation 1) The Doorway in Grafenwöhr Bavaria, May 1945. The village of Grafenwöhr lay bruised and quiet in the pale morning light. Smoke drifted through the streets, soft as…
German Child Soldiers Were Shocked When Americans Spared Them — And Treated Them Kindly. VD
German Child Soldiers Were Shocked When Americans Spared Them — And Treated Them Kindly 1) The Foxhole Germany, April 1945. The forest outside Aachen smelled of cordite and pine sap, morning mist threading through shattered trunks where bark had been…