At 4:47 on the morning of May 11th, 1945, Private John McKini lay in his tent near Dingolan Bay, Luzon, unaware that approximately 100 Japanese soldiers were creeping through the jungle toward his position. 24 years old, 2 and 1/2 years in the army, a sharecropper son from Georgia with a third grade education. By…
Two generals arrived at a quiet villa near Ulm with an ultimatum from Hitler. By the end of the afternoon, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel would be dead. His wife Lucie and fifteen-year-old son Manfred were inside the house when it happened. Within hours, the regime announced he had died of his wounds….
John Wayne was asked to leave a quiet restaurant. The waitress lost her job defending him, but what Wayne did next changed her life forever. It was 1974, and John Wayne pulled his pickup truck into the gravel parking lot of Miller’s Diner just after 700 p.m., hoping for nothing more than a quiet meal…
A French mayor sent a letter to one of the most aggressive commanders in the entire Allied Army. The letter said essentially, “Do not come here. Do not enter our city. We are asking you to leave us alone.” Most people assume they know what happened next. They picture Patton reading that letter, tossing it…
May 1945. The war in Europe was over. The guns were silent. Hitler was dead. The Nazi regime had collapsed. In Berlin and along the Elb River, American soldiers and Russian soldiers were hugging. They were dancing. They were drinking vodka and whiskey together. The world was celebrating. But in the middle of this celebration,…
May 5th, 1945. Austria. The war in Europe has less than three days left. Hitler is dead. The German army is surrendering in waves. But high in the Tolian Alps, a medieval fortress stands on a hill. Castle. And inside this castle, the strangest scene of World War II is taking place. If you looked…
September 1944, the Wolf’s Lair, East Prussia. A courier enters the operations room carrying the daily situation report. General Alfred Yodel accepts the document, reads through it once, then reads it a second time, more slowly. He places it carefully on the table without uttering a word. The fifth Panzer Army, Germany’s last strategic reserve…
March 22nd, 1945, while British Field Marshall Montgomery was orchestrating what he believed would be the largest river crossing operation in military history, complete with 5,000 artillery guns, devastating aerial bombardment, and 22,000 paratroopers preparing to jump. American General George Patton was making a phone call that would infuriate his rival forever. Brad, for God’s…
September 10th, 1944. Granville, France. The coastal villa that serves as Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force sits perched on a cliff overlooking the gray Atlantic waters. Inside, General Dwight D. Eisenhower is hunched over a large table completely covered in logistics charts and supply reports. His chief of staff, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, stands…
March 12th, 1954 seven fifty eight PM Raymond Quick Lewis arrived at Small’s Paradise 30 minutes early like always that’s why they called him quick not because he was fast because he was prepared always thinking ahead always anticipating always protecting he’d been Bumpy Johnson’s bodyguard for eight years never failed never hesitated never questioned…
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