Only a very few flag officers know where it is going. >> The storm is coming. Let’s get into it. The Winds of War 1983 ABC 7 episodes 14 hours and 40 [music] minutes of pure sweeping epic World War II drama. A 962page script, 285 speaking [music] parts, over a million feet of film…
It seems ironic, while our finest young men are fighting halfway across the world, other young men and women, safe at home, openly advocate abandonment of Vietnam to communism. Perhaps they really don’t know what this war is all about. In the words of a battle-weary young Marine, they would understand if they’d cross this …
The year is 1951. The location is the jagged frozen airspace above the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. This is the alley, Mig Alley. For the pilots of the Soviet 64th Fighter Aviation Corps, specifically the elite veterans of World War II who have been secretly deployed to this theater. The…
She was a monster of steel. The largest aircraft carrier ever built, so secret that even most of Japan’s navy had never seen her. The Shinano was designed to turn the tide of war. A floating fortress meant to restore Japan’s crumbling empire. Yet just 10 days after leaving port, she was gone, sunk in…
Burbank, California. February 1st, 1973. NBC Studios Stage 1. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. At exactly 11:30 p.m., 30 million Americans tuned in to watch the most powerful man in television do what he did best, make legends sweat under the studio lights. But tonight was different. Tonight, Johnny Carson had a guest who…
Operation Babarasa had actually failed even before it was launched. Because with the possibilities open to Germany’s political and military leaders in 1941, in the absence of a clear strategic objective, a war against the Soviet Union could never have been won. It was the great conflict between two major ideologies of the time, fascism…
Elvis sat at that piano on June 26, 1977, looking more vulnerable than anyone had ever seen him. He was about to sing his last song. And somehow, deep down, he knew it. The Market Square Arena in Indianapolis was packed with 18,000 screaming fans. But something felt different that night. The energy wasn’t the…
November 1966, Long Sun Island, deep in the Rangat swamp, a place the Vietong called the jungle of assassins. 400 Australian soldiers are about to jump from helicopters into a mangrove hell that has never been penetrated by Allied forces. They have no waterborne training, no specialized equipment, no idea what they are walking into….
243 dead, zero losses. One rubber plantation where Australian SAS turned patients into a weapon and 15 seconds into a massacre. June 1971, five men lying in mud for 3 days, watching the same enemy soldiers walk past at 3:00 in the morning like clockwork. On day four, they didn’t watch anymore. They harvested. The…
deployed to Vietnam in September 1966 as part of first marine division. Assigned to sniper platoon operating out of Hill 55 Firebase near Daong. Within 4 months, he’d killed more enemy combatants than any Marine sniper in the war. His primary weapon was a Winchester model 70306 rifle topped with an eight power unurtle scope,…
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