In the high-stakes world of professional sports, the most significant plays often happen far away from the hardwood. They occur in soundproof boardrooms,…
Their stench was unbearable even to their allies. But they were the deadliest men in Vietnam. Forget Rambo. Forget the movies. What I’m…
A six-pound pump shotgun with a design flaw the factory never fixed became the most devastating close quarters weapon of the Vietnam War…
A World War II propeller plane carried more bombs than a B17 flying fortress, shot down communist jet fighters, and rescued hundreds of…
You’re sitting in the mud outside Daang cleaning your M14. The trigger assembly won’t click back in. The wooden stock has swollen from…
January 25th, 1969. Fuai village, Meong Delta. 90 American infantry men are pinned in an open rice patty. They’ve been there for 2…
Colonel David Hackworth is standing in a construction zone somewhere in Vietnam. A bulldozer has just uncovered something. A buried Vietkong soldier dead…
In June 1969, the United States military fought a battle it could not lose. 400 enemy soldiers were killed. One American died. The…
Fiberglass. That’s what’s between you and a thousand enemy soldiers. Not steel, not armor plating. Fiberglass. The same stuff they make swimming pools…
The tracers come first. Red lines in the night sky curving down from 3,000 ft. So many of them they don’t look like…