April 1942, a conference room in Whiteall. Vice Admiral Lord Louie Mountbatton poses a single question to Jeffrey Lloyd, Secretary for Petroleum. Can…
August 19th, 1942. DEP, France. Canadian engineers sprinted across open beach toward German seaw walls and anti-tank obstacles. They carried demolition charges. They…
A secret facility hidden in the English countryside. British engineers stood around a workbench covered in lumps of coal. Except these were not…
1942, the Libyan desert. A British reconnaissance patrol spots German armor moving across the sand. In any other armored car, the crew’s only…
February 1943, Tunisia. Tiger tanks advance with the confidence of a weapon that has never been properly answered. The Tiger’s 100 mm of…
November 1939, the British War Office approved a new bayonet design for the number four rifle. It wouldn’t reach soldiers hands in large…
June 1941, Halire Pass, Egypt, 11 km from the Libyan border. British tank crews called it Hellfire Pass, and they earned that name…
John Wayne and Clint Eastwood were standing 10 feet apart on a sound stage that had gone dead silent. Wayne was 64 years…
The Rat Pack is having dinner. John Ford, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Peter Lofford, the most powerful men in Hollywood. A waiter, a…
John Wayne was halfway through the scene when he saw the gun. Not pointed at him, not yet. Just resting on a wooden…