and please subscribe if you haven’t already. Back to November 22nd, 1963. Gan Hill was a school teacher, 32 years old, sharp, observant, and on November 22nd, 1963, she had the best view of anyone in De Plaza. Hill and her friend Mary Mormon stood on the south side of Elm Street directly across from…
The cigarette between his lips had gone out. The glass of apple juice in his hand caught the fluorescent light and turned it gold. What Elvis said next, Dean Martin would carry for 26 years. He never repeated it. Not to Frank, not to Sammy, not even to his wife. Until one night in 1988,…
At the head of the table sat Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, he studied the map spread before him, red and blue arrows stabbing into the Arden like wounds. The room buzzed with low murmurss until Eisenhower raised his head. His voice when he spoke cut through the tension. He asked one question. The…
August 15th, 1945. The day Japan’s emperor announced surrender crackled across radios in Tokyo, but in the bamboo framed huts of Luzon, in the shadows of Burma’s jungles, and in the sellers of Nanjing, the war did not feel over. In one such station deep in the Philippines, the air rire of mildew and sweat….
17 million cubic meters of concrete, 1.2 million tons of steel, 5% of Germany’s entire annual steel production poured into 2,400 m of coastline from the Arctic Circle to the Spanish border. It was the largest fortification project since the Great Wall of China. It consumed more resources than any defensive structure in modern history,…
It’s a night in the Bay of Biscay, 1942. A German U-boat surfaces to recharge its batteries. The commander checks the Metox receiver. Green screen, no radar emissions detected. He orders the diesel engines to full power. Everything is under control. He doesn’t know it yet, but the sky above him is listening on a…
1969, a young farmer in Colorado woke up one morning and found half his corn crop destroyed. It was the only money he had, the only thing standing between his family and a very hard winter. >> [music] >> He drove to the film set next door to ask for help. They turned him away….
December 19th, 1944. Versailles, France. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. General Dwight D. Eisenhower occupied a room where cigarette smoke hung thick in the air, mixing with palpable tension. Maps sprawled across tables revealed a nightmare taking shape in the Arden Forest. The German offensive had carved a bulge 50 m deep into Allied positions….
December 29th, 1944. Versailles. General Dwight Eisenhower reads a telegram from British Field Marshall Montgomery for the third time. It’s not a request, it’s an ultimatum. Montgomery is demanding complete control of all Allied ground forces. If Eisenhower refuses, Montgomery will go over his head directly to Churchill and the Combined Chiefs. It’s a coup…
The German officers at Stalog 7A never suspected the woman who cooked their meals. March 12th, 1943, Munich, Germany. A 31-year-old Polish woman named Maria Kovalska stood in the kitchen of a prisoner of war camp stirring a massive pot of potato soup destined for the SS officer’s messaul. Her hands trembled slightly, not from…
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