April 21st, 1945. Desauo, Germany. The streets lay choked with rubble from weeks of Allied bombing. Staff Sergeant Joseph Madria peered through the…
The reporter expected an old man, slowm moving, hunched, glassy eyed. But the man who answered the cabin door in northern Manitoba was…
The commander of Panza number 304 saw the muzzle flash first. It came from a treeine approximately 800 meters to the northeast. A…
At the US Army Ordinance Proving Grounds in Abedine, Maryland, the winter wind cut across rows of half assembled tanks, hulking shapes of…
They never heard the rifle. No crack, no echo rolling through the frozen treeine. No warning at all. One moment, General Horst Vitamin…
In 1967, a waitress in Las Vegas was fired for saying 12 words to Dean Martin. What happened the next day left the…
German Tankers Laughed at M10 Tank Destroyers — Until 3-Inch Guns Pierced Panthers at 1,200 Yards, D
The German Panther commander couldn’t believe what he was seeing through his periscope. His tank, supposedly the most advanced armored fighting vehicle in…
The war was over, but the silence hadn’t ended. It was 1978 when war correspondent Daniel Mercer found the folder. He was deep…
Dean saw the gun pointed at Frank’s head. He had exactly two seconds to move. Frank was locked in combat with two men.…
At exactly 0847 hours, June 14th, 1944, 3 mi west of Corent in France, a Sherman tank sat motionless behind a collapsed stone…