The laughter echoed across the airirstrip without restraint. A veteran American Green Beret captain stood watching from a short distance, arms folded, openly…
The most terrifying soldiers in the Vietnam War were not American. They did not arrive with roaring helicopters or waves of artillery. They…
Long been 1968. The wet season had turned the largest American base in Vietnam into a slurry of red mud, diesel fumes, and…
In the early hours of January 1969, a patrol from the Navy Seals stood at the edge of a jungle clearing in Fuktui…
December 19th, 1968. The long high mountains rise abruptly from the Vietnamese jungle. Their limestone ridges cutting through morning mist like the spine…
0200 hours arrived quietly, the kind of hour when wars only seemed to sleep. The flight line lay half lit and still UH1…
120 Australian soldiers walked into a command briefing at Long Bin in May of 1966. A United States Army colonel stood at the…
5 June 1944. Paris, Gare de l’Est rail approaches.Steel wheels shriek somewhere in the dark. Steam hisses, then fades. A yard lamp flickers…
14 November 1941. RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire.Four Merlin engines cough into life on the hardstand, each ignition a flat crack swallowed by fog. The…
March 1943. Fort Sam Houston, Texas.The heat comes up early, even in spring. Boots scrape gravel. Diesel trucks idle and cough near the…