700 ft above Negros Island, air speed decaying through 130 mph, the P38’s left wing dropped hard as the nose pitched upward beyond recovery. The twin Allison’s were still running. The controls still responded, but physics had already decided the outcome. In 3 seconds, the most successful active fighter pilot in the Pacific would be…
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May 1st, 1958, Red Square, Moscow. The rumble of diesel engines echoed off the Kremlin walls as a new machine rolled past the reviewing stand where Nikita Kruev stood watching. The T-54, soon to be designated the T-55 after modifications, represented the pinnacle of Soviet armored engineering. 100 tons of steel powered by a 520…
at a little past three in the morning on November 29 1944 the American submarine USS archerfish fired six Torpedoes and sank the 71 000 ton Japanese super carrier shinano this is the extraordinary story of how a single Submarine skippered by a then unremarkable Captain claimed the largest warship then afloat the events that…
June 6th, 1944. 6:31 a.m. Omaha Beach, Normandy, France. The first shell hit before the ramp dropped. Private James Callahan, a 22-year-old factory welder from Detroit, watched the man in front of him vaporize. Not fall, not stumble, vaporize. One second, he was there. helmet tilted, rifle gripped, breathing hard. The next second, there was…
October 9th, 1973. Seven tanks. That’s all that stood between a Syrian armored division and the sleeping families of northern Israel. Seven Centurion tanks. Seven exhausted crews who hadn’t slept in 4 days. Ammunition nearly gone. Fuel running on fumes. And through the volcanic dust of the Golden Heights, 160 Syrian tanks were advancing toward…
By late afternoon on December 26th, a spearhead from the fourth armored division, part of Patton’s third army, reached the Bastonia perimeter, and the siege was broken. American forces had broken through to Bastonia. And something German planners believed would be too slow and difficult in winter had just happened in the middle of a…
At 5:42 a.m. on November 21st, 1943, Private First Class Frank Punch Malone, armed with an improvised, heavily modified M1903 Springfield rifle, cited his target from a precarious ledge overlooking the main beach of Terawa atal. The tropical sun was not yet fully risen, but the air was already thick with the smell of coral…
11,000 ft above New Guinea, a single P38 Lightning held its dive at 420 mph. The fuel gauges showed less than 40 minutes of flight time remaining. Three Japanese fighters had already fallen from the formation ahead, and the American pilot pushed the yoke forward again, following a fourth into the jungle canopy’s green blur…
foreign ER was fully aware of the absolute necessity of success at the Battle of Kursk he needed a success to re-establish the month lost in the disaster at Stalingrad [Music] it was a gamble which was not destined to succeed [Applause] [Music] in the north the effectiveness of our Russian defense limited the progress…
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