Seven-year-old Michael Jackson was performing live on national television when his mind went completely blank. He forgot the choreography. The cameras were on…
Michael Jackson had performed for 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden that night. But the performance nobody saw, the one that happened the…
January 29th, 1945, 2:47 p.m. Holtzheim, Belgium. First Sergeant Leonard Funk turns the corner of a snow-covered farmhouse, and stops cold. In front…
At 7:22 a.m. on the 9th of June, 1944, a German officer followed by 700 soldiers walked toward acting Sergeant Jake McNiece with…
The M16 scandal in Vietnam was bad enough that American soldiers were getting killed because of it. Whole platoon were found dead beside…
One of the worst military disasters of the Second World War led directly to what we can arguably say was the best rifle…
Guadalcanal. Late 1942. Somewhere along the Matanikau River, a Marine lies prone in the mud, eye pressed to a scope mounted on a…
[music] It’s a funny thing, you know, I can watch a war picture and yet when I see some of these films where…
December 1945, the war was over. Nazi Germany had fallen, its leaders either dead, captured, or on trial. Europe was slowly beginning to…
The date is the spring of 1942. A British colonel, a career officer named Jeffrey Keys stands at the edge of a training…