30 American soldiers walked into a classroom at Na Trang. Behind them, 500,000 American troops waged war across Vietnam with helicopter gunships,…
Everything was fine. The patrol moved through the jungle with the confidence of men who owned this territory. Seven soldiers of the…
Five American soldiers walked into the jungle alongside four Australians. 4 days later, the Americans walked out, changed men. Their afteraction report…
December 17th, 1944. The frozen earth of the Arden’s forest crunched beneath Vermach boots as German officers surveyed their latest prize. Dozens of…
The German engineer ran his hand along the hull of the American tank. Something was wrong. Not wrong with the tank, wrong with…
Imagine you’re a German soldier moving through a quiet French hedger. Your squad expects rifle fire, maybe a machine gun [music] if things…
The first time many German soldiers encountered the M1 carbine, they didn’t even know what they were being shot with. It didn’t sound…
July 25th, 1944. 9:38 a.m. Normandy. Lieutenant General Fritz Bioline, commander of the elite Pansa division, stands in his command bunker, watching the…
When Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, more than a hundred U-boats were still at sea. In the days that followed, they …
May 1945, Germany surrenders and with it falls one of the most feared weapons of the Second World War, the Tiger Tank. Across…