The ISOLATED Danger of LRRP Teams in the Vietnam War. NU
The ISOLATED Danger of LRRP Teams in the Vietnam War October 21st, 1968. The AA Valley, Thuathien Province. The sound of the war is not the explosion. The sound of the war is the wind. It is the specific tearing…
Germans Captured Him — He Laughed, Then Took Down 21 of Them in 45 Seconds. VD
Germans Captured Him — He Laughed, Then Took Down 21 of Them in 45 Seconds Chapter 1: The Making of a Soldier In the smoky haze of Braddock Township, Pennsylvania, where steel mills belched fire along the Monongahela River, Leonard…
“THIS CAN’T BE AMERICA!” — German POWs Couldn’t Believe Their First Sight of America. VD
“THIS CAN’T BE AMERICA!” — German POWs Couldn’t Believe Their First Sight of America The Liberty’s Whisper December 1943. The Atlantic roared like a wounded beast, its winter waves crashing against the hull of the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown….
“Please Don’t Hurt Me” – German Woman POW Shocked When American Soldier Tears Her Dress Open. VD
“Please Don’t Hurt Me” – German Woman POW Shocked When American Soldier Tears Her Dress Open The Greatest Weapon: A Tale of Mercy August 14th, 1944. Camp Hearn, Texas. The air was thick with Texas heat that afternoon. The earth…
Female German POWs FEARED Black American Soldiers Until This Happened. VD
Female German POWs FEARED Black American Soldiers Until This Happened The Soldier Who Chose Mercy October 12th, 1944, Camp Huntsville, Texas. The first thing that hit them was the heat. The moment the truck doors opened, it felt like someone…
German Women POWs Hadn’t Eaten Fruits For 8 Months — When Cowboys Gave Them Apples, They Were Socked. VD
German Women POWs Hadn’t Eaten Fruits For 8 Months — When Cowboys Gave Them Apples, They Were Socked The Apple That Changed Everything June 18th, 1944. Camp Hearn, Texas. The smell reached us before we saw anything. It drifted through…
Expecting shame, German POWs were shocked when British guards chose respect over exploitation. NU
Expecting shame, German POWs were shocked when British guards chose respect over exploitation In the wreckage of Northern Germany in May 1945, the air didn’t smell like victory; it smelled of disinfectant, carbolic soap, and a paralyzing, “Code Red” fear….
Dutch families prepared for death, but the sight of British trucks brought the first taste of survival in five years. NU
Dutch families prepared for death, but the sight of British trucks brought the first taste of survival in five years The story of the British prisoner-of-war (POW) camps in the aftermath of World War II is not merely a footnote…
Patton’s Apache Battalion: The Men the US Was Afraid to Unleash in WWII. NU
Patton’s Apache Battalion: The Men the US Was Afraid to Unleash in WWII To the arrogance of the German high command, the men of the 45th division were nothing to fear. Nazi propaganda dismissed them as racially inferior. They called…
Cosa dissero i comandanti britannici quando finalmente videro la flotta americana del D-Day. NI
Cosa dissero i comandanti britannici quando finalmente videro la flotta americana del D-Day Porto di Plymouth, gennaio 1944 . Quell’inverno, il vento della Manica aveva una crudeltà particolare: era così tagliente da sembrare che stesse radendo il metallo. Non si limitava a…