July 1942, somewhere in the Libyan desert, 200 miles behind RML’s front line, a standard American Willies jeep built to carry four men…
June 1950, fighting vehicles proving establishment. Churchy Surrey. A squat four-w wheeled machine rolls off a transport truck for its first official trials.…
September 1914, a shipyard in Dunkirk, Northern France. Commander Charles Rumley Samson of the Royal Naval Air Service watched his men bolt 6…
On the morning of February 27th, 1945 at 08:30, Private Wilson Douglas Watson crouched behind a jagged ridge on Euoima, watching Japanese soldiers…
On the morning of August 6th, 1943, at 0630 hours, Commander Kendrick Don stood kneedeep in bomb craters at Munda Point, staring at…
On the night of July 17th, 1943, at 11:27, Private John Joseph Wu crouched behind a salvaged 30 caliber machine gun in the…
At 03:30 on the morning of June 17th, 1944, Lieutenant Colonel William Jones crouched in his command post on Saipan’s western shore, watching…
Japanese Soldiers Were Terrified When U.S. Marines Used “Pocket Artillery” To Wipe Out Their Charges
At 9:47 in the morning on July 7th, 1944, Captain George Hunt crouched behind a coral ridge on Pleu, watching his mortarmen drop…
On the afternoon of September 15th, 1944, at 4:50 in the afternoon, Major Gordon Gale crouched behind a coral outcrop on Pelu’s airfield,…