At 6:15 a.m. on September 14th, 1944, Private Arthur Miller stood on the hot coral gravel of Pelu Island, Palao. He was going to die in approximately 40 seconds, but...
In the summer of 1943, a team of German engineers gathered at the Kumasdorf proving ground 25 kilometers south of Berlin. Before them sat an American tank captured in the...
Five American soldiers walked into the jungle alongside four Australians. 4 days later, the Americans walked out, changed men. Their afteraction report contained a single phrase that would echo through...
At 6:00 a.m. on the morning of November 18th, 1944, Corporal Harlon Vance crouched in a hole full of freezing water, watching a patch of gray fog 40 yards to...
30 American soldiers walked into a classroom at Na Trang. Behind them, 500,000 American troops waged war across Vietnam with helicopter gunships, B-52 bombers, and artillery that could turn...
Everything was fine. The patrol moved through the jungle with the confidence of men who owned this territory. Seven soldiers of the Vietkong D 445 Battalion, armed alert, following...
Five American soldiers walked into the jungle alongside four Australians. 4 days later, the Americans walked out, changed men. Their afteraction report contained a single phrase that would echo...
December 17th, 1944. The frozen earth of the Arden’s forest crunched beneath Vermach boots as German officers surveyed their latest prize. Dozens of captured American soldiers, their breath visible in...
The German engineer ran his hand along the hull of the American tank. Something was wrong. Not wrong with the tank, wrong with everything he had been told about American...
Imagine you’re a German soldier moving through a quiet French hedger. Your squad expects rifle fire, maybe a machine gun [music] if things go bad. Then the air explodes. Heavy...