This is the Me 163 Komet, the only rocket-powered fighter ever built in large numbers and used in real combat. In 1941 an early version of this plane was the first to hit 1,000 kilometers per hour in level flight, It was built for one job — short missions to attack incoming Allied bombers…
That’s how many enemy aircraft these five American pilots shot out of the sky between 1941 and 1945. Not damaged, not probable, confirmed, destroyed. Over 1,400 American fighter pilots qualified as aces during World War II, but only five of them racked up kill counts so high that their names appeared in enemy intelligence…
Studies show that when a pilot enters clouds without preparation, the average time before losing control is 178 seconds, less than 3 minutes. On January 26th, 2020 in Calabasas, California, a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, and seven others lifted off into fog so thick the LAPD had grounded its entire fleet….
– [Sam] This is what it looks like inside the U-2 spy plane 70,000 feet above Earth’s surface. It’s one of the most extreme flights a human can take and one that I was given incredibly rare access to experience and bring you along with me. From takeoff to touchdown, this is a fully-immersive,…
The morning a man walked into my courtroom in a military uniform carrying his brother’s flag. In 42 years on this bench in Memphis, Tennessee, I have seen grief walk through my courtroom door in many forms. I have seen it in the face of a mother contesting a fine she could not pay….
The puppy carried a piece of bread in his teeth for three kilometers … small, barely able to stand on his paws, but stubbornly walked through the wind and cold. The man noticed this and decided to follow him. Step by s tep he followed, further and further from people… And when he finally saw…
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…
The date is June 21st, 1942. Washington DC, the White House. Winston Churchill is sitting across from Franklin Roosevelt in the map room. They are in the middle of a strategic conference. Military aids are moving around them. Charts cover the tables. The room smells of cigarette smoke and power. An aid enters quietly. He…
four hundred planes vanished 400 aircraft launched into the Pacific sky only a handful returned what happened on June 19th, 1944 wasn’t just a battle it was a massacre a clash so one sided to rewrite the rules of air combat forever most people know about Pearl Harbor but almost no one knows about the…
December 21st, 1944. 0600 hours. The fog is so thick you cannot see 20 feet ahead. Temperature -12 C. The Ardens Forest, Belgium. Corporal Henry Warner, 21 years old from Troy, North Carolina, is alone at his 57mm anti-tank gun. His brereech lock is jammed, frozen solid. And out of the fog, a MarkV tank…
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