Adolf Hitler has risen to power pretending to be a man of Peace he tells his people he can make Germany great again without War but behind the scenes he’s locked in a fierce battle with his generals they believe he’s hellbent on a suicidal war of territorial expansion some are even plotting to kill…
November 25th, 1943, 1:56 a.m. Off Cape St. George, Solomon Islands, five American destroyers race through pitch black water at 31 knots. Captain Arley Burke stands on the bridge of USS Charles Osbbor. Radar showing five Japanese destroyers just 5,800 yd ahead. His squadron has been chasing them for 90 minutes. The Japanese are running….
Elvis’s first professional audition lasted exactly four minutes before they stopped him and said, “That’s enough.” But what happened in the parking lot afterward created the king of rock and roll. It was July 5th, 1954, and 19-year-old Elvis Aaron Presley was sitting in his family’s beat up pickup truck outside Sun Records in Memphis,…
December 24, 1944, Budapest, the pearl of the Dan River. Deep within the castle hill’s command bunker , SS General Winden Brook stood before a massive staff map. A solid limestone wall, up to 3 meters thick, separated him from the -15°C stream outside. The air in the cellar was subtly scented with roasted coffee…
Only a very few flag officers know where it is going. >> The storm is coming. Let’s get into it. The Winds of War 1983 ABC 7 episodes 14 hours and 40 [music] minutes of pure sweeping epic World War II drama. A 962page script, 285 speaking [music] parts, over a million feet of film…
It seems ironic, while our finest young men are fighting halfway across the world, other young men and women, safe at home, openly advocate abandonment of Vietnam to communism. Perhaps they really don’t know what this war is all about. In the words of a battle-weary young Marine, they would understand if they’d cross this …
The year is 1951. The location is the jagged frozen airspace above the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. This is the alley, Mig Alley. For the pilots of the Soviet 64th Fighter Aviation Corps, specifically the elite veterans of World War II who have been secretly deployed to this theater. The…
She was a monster of steel. The largest aircraft carrier ever built, so secret that even most of Japan’s navy had never seen her. The Shinano was designed to turn the tide of war. A floating fortress meant to restore Japan’s crumbling empire. Yet just 10 days after leaving port, she was gone, sunk in…
Burbank, California. February 1st, 1973. NBC Studios Stage 1. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. At exactly 11:30 p.m., 30 million Americans tuned in to watch the most powerful man in television do what he did best, make legends sweat under the studio lights. But tonight was different. Tonight, Johnny Carson had a guest who…
Operation Babarasa had actually failed even before it was launched. Because with the possibilities open to Germany’s political and military leaders in 1941, in the absence of a clear strategic objective, a war against the Soviet Union could never have been won. It was the great conflict between two major ideologies of the time, fascism…
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