I want you to imagine something terrifying. Imagine you are the best soldier America has ever produced. You are armed with the latest technology. You are backed by B-52...
Um, Fuai Province, 1967. An American liaison lieutenant receives a briefing before heading into the Australian sector. The senior officer unfolds the map, circles the green zone with his...
Forget every myth you believed about the ultimate jungle predators. Conventional wisdom suggests the Navy Seals reign supreme over Vietnam’s dense terrain, acting as the final word in lethal...
We were about to examine three terrifying accounts regarding the most aggressive M60 machine gunners to serve in Vietnam, and the horror escalates with each event. Through these specific...
On the muddy hellscape of Okinawa, Corporal Vance knew his standardisssue rifle was designed to get him killed. It was 5:43 a.m. on May 14th, 1945. Vance was enduring...
Picture a combat force so undetectable, so unnervingly lethal that their adversaries genuinely wondered if they were fighting flesh and blood men. In the steaming, suffocating green hell of...
It was June 1968 in Old Tucson, Arizona. The desert sun was brutal on the western town set where Bandelero was being filmed. By 10:00 in the morning, the...
They say John Wayne never showed fear. They say the man who faced down outlaws in a 100 westerns didn’t know the meaning of the word. They say he...
December 1975, Santa Monica. John Wayne walked out of a restaurant with his assistant. Across the street, a homeless man sat against a building barefoot in the winter cold....
The plate flew through the air. Porcelain, white, fine china from France with a perfectly cooked filet minion on it. $75 worth in 1964. That was a family’s weekly...