At 2 p.m. hours on October 26th, 1944, Second Lieutenant Audi Murphy crouched in a muddy foxhole in the Voge Mountains of Eastern…
At 10:30 p.m. on October 24th, 1942, Sergeant Mitchell Page crouched in a foxhole on the blackened ridge of Guadal Canal, running his…
September 19th, 1944. Captain Jimmy Leech sat in his Sherman tank near the French village of Arakor, staring into a wall of white.…
At 14:30 on February 2nd, 1945, Corporal Clarence Jenkins crouched in the gunner’s seat of an M4 A3 Sherman tank, watching death roll…
July 1945, President Harry Truman sat in his private quarters after a long day negotiating the fate of postwar Europe with Stalin and…
It was the single most embarrassing radio call in the history of the Vietnam War. [snorts] In March 1968, a veteran US Green…
November 12th, 1944. Camp Papago Park, Arizona. The siren cut through the desert night like a scream. Flood lights snapped on across the…
Western Front, France, 1917. The mathematics [music] of death were brutally simple. Artillery pounded enemy trenches before an assault. Shells screaming overhead. Earth…
August 1st, 1944. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary [music] Force, SH AAF, Versailles, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower [music] stands over a large map…