The morning of October 23rd, 1951 arrived cold and gray over the Korean hills. At 0437 hours, Private James McKenzie of the Royal…
September 14th, 1944. Somewhere in the Hertkan Forest, Western Germany. The fog hasn’t lifted yet. It never does this early. Not here. Not…
The comment was made loud enough for everyone at the briefing table to hear, and the room went silent. Look at those Canadian…
The winter of 1952 descended on the Korean Peninsula with a brutality that defied comprehension. On the morning of January 23rd, at precisely…
The radio transmission was clear enough that everyone in the command post heard it. Someone get that American clown out of my sector…
Number one, the man who shot down his own rescue. It is February 1991. The Gulf War is three weeks old. A US…
Standard Infantry. The American Infantrymen or the GI was the heartbeat of the Allied war machine across the globe. These men were not…
June 6th, 1944. 9:00 in the morning. Southwick House, Portsmouth, England. The sound is controlled chaos. Typewriters clatter. Phones ring constantly. Officers move…
The comment was made at a planning session for Operation Overlord at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Portsouth. And it wasn’t meant…
By the end of June 1944, the Allied operation in Normandy had achieved something that no military planner in 1943 had dared to…