The runway at Northfield on the island of Tenion was 8,500 ft of crushed coral and asphelt on the afternoon of February 12th,…
In the winter of 1944, the Germans had the high ground at Anzio. Every inch of that beach head was visible from the…
The Japanese destroyer Harusami was not a small target. She was 350 ft of hardened steel designed to fight other warships. Her captain,…
In the summer of 1918, a twoman German crew dragged a weapon onto the Western Front that no army had ever fielded before.…
Eddie Van Halen was browsing an antique store in Pasadena when he noticed a box of old high school yearbooks from the 1970s.…
The Pacific Ocean is a graveyard. It covers 63 million square miles of the Earth. It is deep and cold and unforgiving. For…
Eddie Van Halen was browsing a vintage guitar gear swap meet in Anaheim, looking at old amplifiers and effects pedals. At one booth,…
The altimeter reads 3,000 ft. The air speed indicator hovers at 300 mph. Inside the cockpit, the temperature is freezing, but the pilot…
Eddie Van Halen was at a karaoke bar in West Hollywood celebrating a friend’s birthday. The host, a enthusiastic young woman running the…
The date is April 18th, 1943. 700 hours. The heat on the runway at Guadal Canal is already rising. 16 engines cough into…