September 15th, 1940, 11:47 in the morning, 22,000 ft above the Kent countryside, pilot officer Colin Gray had a Messor Schmidt BF109 dead…
March 17th, 1941. 037 hours. The North Atlantic, 40 mi northeast of Ireland. Commander Donald McIntyre stands rigid on the bridge of HMS…
On the night of July 25th, 1944 at 11:17, Seaman Firstclass Mickey Torino crouched behind a sandbagged machine gun position near the…
This is the 8.8 cm flack gun. A weapon built to fight the sky, yet feared most on the ground. Its shells tore…
December 1,944, eastern France, near the German border. A Tiger 1 commander named Hedman Klaus Brener watched through his periscope as his…
At 11:47 p.m. on March 14th, 1944, Sergeant William Bill Hartley crouched in a bombedout factory basement outside Casino, Italy, staring at what…
They Told the Old Sniper Modern Bullets Were Better — He Showed Them Why Grain Weight Matters More D
The young sergeant laughed out loud. He actually laughed. Right there on the firing line in front of everyone, he looked at…
With all due respect, sir, we’ve been doing this for 6 years. We don’t need a lecture on wind reading from a…
[music] [music] [music] In 1967, the Vietnam war entered its most tense and brutal phase. The United States had deployed more than half…
August 18th, 1966. Fui Province, South Vietnam, where the rubber trees grow in neat rows like soldiers on parade and the sky…