Elvis’s hand trembled as he reached toward the guitar hanging on the wall. The worn wood, the faded finish, the crude modifications. Everything was exactly as he remembered. But it was the initials carved into the headstock that made his heart stop completely. Two letters roughly carved with a pocketk knife by a boy who…
It’s the 2nd of November 1944, and as US B-17s fly overhead Lieutenant Günther Andreas speeds down the runway of the Brandis airfield in his interceptor. It’s a very special aircraft — the Me 163 Komet, the only rocket-powered aircraft to ever see combat, and at this time, it’s the fastest plane in the…
Elvis Presley. The four-minute audition that almost killed rock and roll. 4 minutes. That’s all it took for one man to nearly destroy the career of the biggest entertainer in history [music] before it even started January 4th, 1954. A 19-year-old truck driver sat crying in a beat up Lincoln Continental outside Sun Records in…
In 1931, the city of Berlin was awarded the auspicious task of hosting the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. What no one could have predicted was that these games would be used as a tool for some of the slickest propaganda by one of the most tyrannical regimes the world has ever seen. By the early…
He was only 18, a poor southern boy with calloused hands, secondhand clothes, and a voice that didn’t fit anywhere. He grew up believing in God, hard [music] work, and dreams too big for his small town. People said he was different, too shy to lead, too strange to blend in, and far too bold…
NARRATOR: February 15, 1944, Central Pacific. USS Enterprise is steaming toward the Caroline Islands. She’s not alone. On either side of her, stretching nearly as far as the eye can see, are eight other aircraft carriers, six battleships, 10 cruisers, and dozens of destroyers. 500 miles ahead of these ships, at the heart of the…
Elvis stood at the microphone, his fingers frozen on the guitar strings. The opening chords of That’s All Right should have been flowing by now, but something had stopped him cold. Behind him, the small crowd at Dwiey’s Blues Corner grew restless. their Saturday night energy buzzing with anticipation. But Elvis couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe…
At 2340 on December 29th, 1944, Major Carol C. Smith crouched in the cramped cockpit of his P61 Black Widow at Meuire Field, Muro, watching his radar operator track a contact moving at 180 knots through the black skies north of the Philippine Islands. 26 years old, 43 combat missions, four confirmed kills. The Japanese…
Before the fame, before the screaming crowds, before the gold records and the legend, there was a boy, a truck driver from Memphis with a borrowed guitar and a trembling voice. His name was Elvis Presley. In the summer of 1954, he stepped onto a tiny stage at the Eagle’s Nest Club, not knowing that…
July 1st, 1944. Halandia Air Base, New Guinea. 4 P38. Lightning’s touchdown after 6 and 1/2 hours over enemy territory. Three pilots climb out with fuel gauges reading nearly empty. Maybe 50 gallons left in their tanks. The fourth aircraft flown by a 42-year-old civilian still shows 210 gall remaining. Same mission, same weather, same…
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