The Simple British Hampden Torpedo Trick That Crippled German Warships in Norwegian Darkness. nu
The Simple British Hampden Torpedo Trick That Crippled German Warships in Norwegian Darkness 9th April, 1942. The sky above the Norwegian coastline is the color of a bruise. That particular shade of dark violet that settles over the fjords in…
Why U.S. Marines Were Ordered NEVER to Pick Up a Japanese Sword. nu
Why U.S. Marines Were Ordered NEVER to Pick Up a Japanese Sword On a Pacific island, in the silence after a failed banzai charge, a Japanese officer lies dead in the dirt. And beside him, untouched, is the one thing…
Why U.S. Soldiers Were Ordered NEVER to Open This German Crate! nu
Why U.S. Soldiers Were Ordered NEVER to Open This German Crate! The wooden crate was pulled from a captured German truck with red warning marks burned into the lid, and the first American soldier who touched the latch heard something…
Why Did US Army Put Tracks on a Truck? M3 Half-Track Genius Explained. nu
Why Did US Army Put Tracks on a Truck? M3 Half-Track Genius Explained February 14th, 1943. Casarine Pass, Tunisia. A graveyard of burning American steel stretches across the desert floor as far as the eye can see. 23 M3 halftracks…
Why Captured American Privates Knew More Than German Lieutenants. nu
Why Captured American Privates Knew More Than German Lieutenants On July 11th, 1944, in a stone farmhouse three miles behind the German line south of Satlow, a Vermached intelligence officer sat across a table from a 20-year-old American private. The…
Behind One Locked Door Was a Secret Germany Tried to Hide. nu
Behind One Locked Door Was a Secret Germany Tried to Hide October 1944 a quiet town near Nancy France sunlight filters through the trees outside a stone villa casting long shadows across a damp courtyard American intelligence officers walk into…
US Army Tanks Dying for Fuel — so A Mechanic Builds a Lifeline Truck. nu
US Army Tanks Dying for Fuel — so A Mechanic Builds a Lifeline Truck August 25th, 1944. Somewhere in northeastern France. A tank commander puts a pistol to his own head. Not because the Germans are coming, because his tank…
German POWs Got Coffee — American Veterans Were Turned Away. nu
German POWs Got Coffee — American Veterans Were Turned Away What Patton Did When a Canteen Fed German Prisoners But Refused the Black Drivers Who Delivered the FoodDecember 1944. A supply canteen near an American depot outside Liège, Belgium. The…
How the U.S. Moved 133,000 Men to Bastogne Overnight and Shocked Germany. nu
How the U.S. Moved 133,000 Men to Bastogne Overnight and Shocked Germany In the bitter freezing darkness of December 16th, 1944, the serene silence of the Arden’s forest was violently shattered. Adolf Hitler had secretly amassed a staggering force of…
When American Troops Froze in the Snow, Patton Unleashed Fury on Supply Officers. nu
When American Troops Froze in the Snow, Patton Unleashed Fury on Supply Officers December 16th, 1944. 3:00 a.m. The Arden Forest, Belgium. A German 88 mm shell tears through the frozen darkness and detonates 6 ft from Private James Kowolski’s…