This weapon is a singleshot disposable rocket launcher. It weighs 5 12 lb. It costs less than $2,000. It was designed in 1959. The United States military has tried to...
By late 1944, German commanders fighting American infantry were writing assessments that didn’t read like military analysis. They read like testimony. The men who wrote them had been on the...
For years, the Minnesota Timberwolves occupied a strange, agonizing purgatory within the NBA landscape. They were always too talented to completely ignore, yet entirely too unpredictable to trust when it...
In October 1940, the United States Army sat down and made a list of the men it expected to die. Not in those words. The language was bureaucratic, measured, the...
The runway at Northfield on the island of Tenion was 8,500 ft of crushed coral and asphelt on the afternoon of February 12th, 1945. It was also the most dangerous...
In the winter of 1944, the Germans had the high ground at Anzio. Every inch of that beach head was visible from the Alban Hills. The Allied troops were pinned...
The Japanese destroyer Harusami was not a small target. She was 350 ft of hardened steel designed to fight other warships. Her captain, Lieutenant Commander Masau Kamayyama, had fought at...
In the summer of 1918, a twoman German crew dragged a weapon onto the Western Front that no army had ever fielded before. It weighed 35 lb, stood nearly 6...
Eddie Van Halen was browsing an antique store in Pasadena when he noticed a box of old high school yearbooks from the 1970s. Out of curiosity, he flipped through them...
The Pacific Ocean is a graveyard. It covers 63 million square miles of the Earth. It is deep and cold and unforgiving. For a pilot in a single engine fighter...