Special Forces Jerry “Mad Dog” Shriver Packed as Many as Six Revolvers, Sawn off Shotgun & His Regular Machine Gun
“To Liberate the Oppressed” – US Special Forces Motto For America, the Vietnam War was unlike any other war it had fought before. It was a…
The Red Baron’s “other” Planes Yes He Had More Than Just One Fokker
Though more than 100 years have passed and his record of aerial success was surpassed in WWII, to this day the flying ace that virtually…
The Chosin Reservoir Battle, Memorable Heroics of a Forgotten War
On Thanksgiving Day 1950, in the extremely cold, windy mountains of North Korea, United Nations (U.N.) units of the American Army and Marine forces were…
Don’t Poop at 70,000 Feet: CIA Wrote a Manual for U-2 Pilots on How Not To
The U-2 spy plane, that long, sleek single engine monster that flew at 70,000 feet to photograph the earth’s surface on behalf of the CIA,…
The Craziest, Almost Insane, Barking Mad Commando Operations in WW2 – Just Amazing Bravery
‘I wasn’t prepared for the question “Why do you want to join the Commandos?” He prompted me with the right answer; “I suppose you want…
Tsar Bomba: The Biggest Blast In Human History
That the world needs the threat of nuclear warfare to maintain a semblance of peace is a contradictory reality most people have come to accept.…
Operation Catapult: Britain Takes Out the Vichy French Fleet
The fall of France to German invasion in 1940 put the British in an uncomfortable position. It led to one of Great Britain’s most controversial…
8 American Tanks of WW2 – Were They the Best?
During the Second World War, America had to move quickly to arm itself. Tanks had become a vital part of combat, as shown by Germany’s…
The Fighting Escadrille Lafayette – Hamilton’s The Community House to honor heroes of WWI
Civilization likes to lionize men who serve in war, clearly a centuries-old tribute. But 100 years ago in World War I, the world lost an…
A Drunk Conversation Stopped the German Attempt to Assassinate the Big Three
Operation Long Jump was perhaps the most audacious idea executed by the Nazi Party. The operation would have had the greatest consequences on the outcome…
The Destroyer of Beasts: ISU-152 Self-Propelled Artillery
When Panthers rolled alongside Tiger tanks on the Eastern Front, eyebrows were certainly raised at the Soviet High Command. How to overcome these mechanical beasts,…
Was it really two men per gun? Soviet armament in WW2
Bombs explode in the distance. The soldiers hear the thump of artillery shells and duck away from a strafing fighter. They are urged forward by…