September 14th, 1969, 3 in the morning. A Vietkong radio operator grabs his transmitter with shaking hands and screams seven words that…
At 0647 on June 6th, 1944, Commander Samuel Dei stood in the cramped conning tower of USS Harter, watching three Japanese destroyers cut…
March 17th, 1943. North Atlantic, 400 m south of Iceland. Convoy HX229 plows through 15t swells, 41 merchant ships laden with 140,000…
November 7th, 1943, just after midnight on Bugganville Island, Japanese destroyers cut through the black waters of At Cinema Bay, carrying nearly…
Five men walked into the jungle. For six days, they didn’t speak a single word, not one syllable, not even a whisper. They…
The Americans called it the Iron Cathedral. The British called it the three-story disaster. The Soviets called it a coffin for seven…
December 19th, 1944. German Panther crews outside the village of Noval were reporting something impossible. American tanks were everywhere. They would appear…
The station wagon hit the curve wrong and flipped twice before sliding to a stop in the dirt. And the first three crew…
August 7th, 1944, 3 kilometers south of Morta, France, the pre-dawn darkness shattered with an explosion that seemed to come from hell itself.…
December 17th, 1944. 0600 hours. Meldy Crossroads, Belgium. The temperature had dropped to 18° Fahrenheit when Ober Lieutenant Verner Poetski heard a sound…