July 2009, Sangan District, Helmond Province, Afghanistan. The Chinuk helicopter touched down in a cloud of brown dust. US Marine Sergeant Patrick Thornton grabbed his rifle and jumped onto the...
A packed carrier plane with a detachable fuselage. In September 1950, the last corner of South Korea, still free from enemy control, was a tiny pocket of land pressed against...
May 1982, Goose Green, East Faulland. A thousand Argentine soldiers sat in shallow trenches carved into the cold, wet earth of a place most of them had never heard of...
April 1951, along the Immun River in Korea, just 8 mi north of Seoul, the night air hung thick and heavy as 650 British soldiers of the Glostersha Regiment stared...
Hold on. March 2003. The Alfor Peninsula, southern Iraq. It is 10:00 at night and the world is about to change. A massive sandstorm rolls across the flat, oil soaked...
A quiet evening at a local diner turned into a heart-stopping nightmare for an elderly woman when a massive tattooed Hells Angel biker suddenly sat down at her booth and...
In the autumn of 1962, 12 American Green Berets stepped off a transport aircraft at RAF Changangi in Singapore, then climbed aboard a Bedford truck for the 2-hour drive north...
Boston, Massachusetts, Fenway Park. June 23rd, 1917, Saturday afternoon. Red Sox versus Senators. Ruth pitching for Red Sox. Young Ruth, 22 years old, still pitcher, not yet. Slugger, not yet....
Detroit, Michigan. Late summer 1925. Yankees Road Trip. Team staying downtown hotel. Nice hotel. Expensive hotel. Book Cadillac Hotel. Tallest building in city. Finest rooms. Best service. Perfect for baseball...
New York, May 25th, 1922. Polo Grounds, Yankees versus Browns. Hot afternoon, tempers short. Ruth’s temper shortest. Already suspended earlier this season. Six games for arguing, for complaining, for being...