A World War II propeller plane carried more bombs than a B17 flying fortress, shot down communist jet fighters, and rescued hundreds of downed pilots, while the Pentagon spent billions...
You’re sitting in the mud outside Daang cleaning your M14. The trigger assembly won’t click back in. The wooden stock has swollen from 3 days of rain, physically grown an...
January 25th, 1969. Fuai village, Meong Delta. 90 American infantry men are pinned in an open rice patty. They’ve been there for 2 hours. Five are already dead, including their...
Colonel David Hackworth is standing in a construction zone somewhere in Vietnam. A bulldozer has just uncovered something. A buried Vietkong soldier dead for God knows how long. Maybe 6...
In June 1969, the United States military fought a battle it could not lose. 400 enemy soldiers were killed. One American died. The technology worked perfectly. The tactics were flawless....
Fiberglass. That’s what’s between you and a thousand enemy soldiers. Not steel, not armor plating. Fiberglass. The same stuff they make swimming pools out of. One RPG hit and you’re...
The tracers come first. Red lines in the night sky curving down from 3,000 ft. So many of them they don’t look like individual bullets anymore. They look like a...
Colbert Exposes Trump’s “Top of the Class” Claim — Audience Erupts in Laughter The Wharton Myth Shattered: Stephen Colbert Exposes Donald Trump’s Real Academic Ranking as Audience Roars in Hysteria...
Japanese Women POWs Braced for Execution at Dawn — Americans Brought Them Breakfast Instead “A Breakfast Instead of Death: How American Soldiers Changed the Fate of Japanese POW Women” April...
‘Let Us Die in the Cold!’ — German Women POWs REFUSED Rescue, One Soldier’s Response BROKE Them February 1945, Camp Stark, New Hampshire. In the freezing cold of the American...