They said a black man couldn’t do it. They said his hands weren’t steady enough, his mind not sharp enough, his place not worthy enough to touch the machinery...
1936, Berlin, Germany, the summer Olympic games. The entire apparatus of the Third Reich had been mobilized to prove a single idea to the watching world that the Arian...
January 26th, 1945. Holtzvir, France, near the Kmar pocket. Second Lieutenant Audi Murphy, 19 years old, watches six German tanks approaching. Behind them, 250 German infantry. Murphy’s company, 18...
January 26, 1945. The frozen forests of eastern France. A burning M10 tank destroyer. Its ammunition cooking off, ready to explode at any moment. 200 German infantry supported by...
The rain came down in sheets across the long green, turning the red earth to mud and the jungle canopy into a drumming wall of noise. It was the...
The Americans were loud. The Australians, they vanished. And when they returned, men were gone. These weren’t our words. They were theirs. The Vietkong scouts who tracked Western forces...
(hello and welcome to episode 436 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast my name is Seth peran historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces museum...
120 Australian soldiers walked into a command briefing at Long Bin in May of 1966. A United States Army colonel stood at the front. Maps of Puaktui province spread...
The Americans didn’t hear them, didn’t see them, didn’t sense them. Four MV SOG operators crouched in the undergrowth along a trail junction in Fuak Twi province had been...
The jungle canopy filters morning light into fragments. 11 men stand motionless on a trail barely wider than a man’s shoulders. They’ve been frozen like this for 3 minutes...