A German Officer Captured an American Soldier—Then He Saw What Was in His Backpack. VD
December 1944, the Ardennes Offensive is in its opening days. The freezing fog is so thick that the towering pine trees look like gray phantoms. >> [music] >> Inside a dimly lit freezing stone cellar of a ruined Belgian farmhouse,…
The Shadow Over City Hall: Inside the Quiet Revolt Brewing in Sadiq Khan’s London. n1
The Shadow Over City Hall: Inside the Quiet Revolt Brewing in Sadiq Khan’s London The rain has a way of stripping the polish off London. On a damp evening along the southern curve of the Thames, looking across at the…
The Germans Called Their Pillboxes Impregnable. Then a 155mm Proved Them Wrong. VD
In the third week of September 1944, a German soldier crouched behind 2 feet of reinforced concrete on the western edge of his own country and believed the wall around him could not be broken. He had been told exactly…
An Engineer Sergeant Refused to Rate Patton’s Bridge for Tanks – Patton Halted the Column. VD
The bridge was standing and that was the problem because a bridge that is standing looks like a bridge that will hold. It was a masonry arch highway bridge over a river in Lraine in the second week of September…
The Most TERRIFYING Multi Gun Vehicle Of The Vietnam War You’ve Never Heard Of. VD
Picture a narrow street in the old Imperial city of Hugh, early 1968. A squat little tracked vehicle noses around a corner, no taller than the Marines walking beside it. It stops. Six gun barrels swing toward a stone wall…
14 Rounds Bounced Off a Tiger – Then the U.S. Brought Up the 90mm M36. VD
It is November 17th, 1944. The American Second Armored Division is pushing across the freezing mud of the Roar plane near Pufindenorf. An American Sherman tank crew spots a German Tiger in their path. The American gunner does exactly what…
What German Soldiers Found in Captured American Ration Boxes. VD
November 4th, 1944. A farmhouse seller in Vosanac in the Herkin forest a few kilometers inside the German frontier. Feldbel Ernst Brookner has a candle, a pencil, and a cardboard box. The box came off an American who did not…
5 Things German Soldiers Found Strange About American PT Boats. VD
The Adriatic Sea, March 1944. A German Kriegsmarine lookout stares through binoculars at a strange silhouette skimming across the water at nearly 40 knots, throwing up a wake like a speedboat at a lake resort. No armor plating, no visible…
Japanese Soldiers Were HORRIFIED When U.S. Marines Used Machine Guns as Sniper Rifles.VD
You cannot aim a machine gun. That was the rule. A machine gun was a hose. You pointed it at a patch of ground and drown that ground in bullets. And precision was somebody else’s problem. Then a marine picked…
Why Nimitz Fired Torpedoes Into a Cliff After the Navy Gave Him the Same Answer. VD
August 1,943 Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Chester Nimttz picks up a phone. He does not call Washington. He does not request another meeting with the Bureau of Ordinance. Not He does not dictate another letter into the same silence that…