The rifle was supposed to be the future. It was 1957 and the United States Army had just officially adopted a new standardisssue…

April 14th, 1945 015 a.m. The downtown streets of Zvola, Netherlands. Lao Major, a private with the Canadian Lori Mandela, is currently pressing…

At 9:27 a.m., one American fighter was accidentally late for the war. Second Lieutenant Philip Adair looked down from the cockpit of his…

March 6th, 1944. At 23,000 ft over Germany, a lone American B7 flies straight into enemy airspace. No fighter escort, no way out.…

Move after three shots or die. The logic was unassalable. A sniper’s power came from invisibility. Every shot fired revealed information to the…

The King Tiger was supposed to be invincible. 70 tons of German engineering wrapped in armor so thick that Allied gunners had stopped…

Before we write into this story, hit like and subscribe. Thank you. Shaw Water Bay training area, Queensland, Australia. March 1997. Three men…

Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Throughout the course of human history, weapons utilized in warfare have not only been judged on…

October 1944. The boardrooms of the Allied High Command in France were thick with smoke and heavy with tension. General George S. Patton,…

December 14th, 1943. Ortona, Italy. The temperature was 2° C. Rain mixed with sleet fell on the rubble of what had been a…