German Soldiers Wrote: “The Americans Are Terrifying” — Here’s Why. VD
American parachutists, devils in baggy pants, are less than 100 m from my outpost line. I can’t sleep at night. They pop up from nowhere, and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-hearted…
Japanese Troops Thought the Marines Had Made a Fatal Mistake—Then One Night Changed Everything. VD
25 yards. That is the distance from a pitcher’s mound to home plate plus about 5 ft. It is a distance you can walk in 9 seconds without hurrying. On the night of August 21st, 1,942 on a bar of…
The TERRIFYING First 90 Days Every Vietnam Lieutenant (Butter Bar) Faced. VD
You’ve been in country less than 24 hours. That’s not dramatic license. Army studies on the individual replacement system describe new arrivals moving from the airfield to a combat unit within about a day, sometimes less. The gold bar on…
7 THINGS GERMAN OFFICERS REFUSED TO BELIEVE ABOUT AMERICAN SOLDIERS. VD
February 17th, 1943. A rgeline above Sidi Buzid, Tunisia. Oberlot Ghard Weber lowered his field glasses and did something he had not done since Poland. He laughed at an enemy below him. Across 4 km of gravel and scrub, an…
In 1942, Japan Banzai Charged U.S. Marines. Nobody Warned Them About the Canister Rounds. VD
On the night of August 21st, 1942, roughly 800 men of the Imperial Japanese Army came out of the jungle on Guadal Canal and charged straight into the dark. They screamed as they came. They believed the Marines dug in…
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…