At 14:30 on February 2nd, 1945, Corporal Clarence Jenkins crouched in the gunner’s seat of an M4 A3 Sherman tank, watching death roll toward him on steel tracks. He was...
July 1945, President Harry Truman sat in his private quarters after a long day negotiating the fate of postwar Europe with Stalin and Churchill. He opened his diary and wrote...
It was the single most embarrassing radio call in the history of the Vietnam War. [snorts] In March 1968, a veteran US Green Beret captain stood on an airirstrip at...
November 12th, 1944. Camp Papago Park, Arizona. The siren cut through the desert night like a scream. Flood lights snapped on across the compound, turning dust into gold and shadow...
Western Front, France, 1917. The mathematics [music] of death were brutally simple. Artillery pounded enemy trenches before an assault. Shells screaming overhead. Earth erupting and geysers of mud and shattered...
August 1st, 1944. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary [music] Force, SH AAF, Versailles, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower [music] stands over a large map table studying the positions of Allied forces...
Colleagues and Veterans Pay Respect to Alex Pretti at Minneapolis VA Hospital Vigil Rest with Honor: How Minneapolis Veterans and Coworkers Paid Tribute to Alex Pretti In the stillness of...
It’s the crisp, tense air of late 1,943. 80 km deep behind enemy lines in southern Italy, a decrepit concentration camp named Pistikshi held 180 souls marked for immediate transport....
Joy for Canadian hockey as Elon Musk offers a $5 million donation to Canada’s national men’s hockey teams. “My grandma is Canadian. I feel so much love for my fellow...
At 0200 hours on January 24th, 1943, Lieutenant Commander Richard Chickmer crouched in a slit trench on Guadal Canal, watching the United States Marine Corps get humiliated. Above him, the...