The morning Corporal James Whitfield of the 101st Airborne Division first saw an Australian SAS patrol prepare to leave the wire at Nui Dat. He was standing 40 m away...
2000, the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau, Kharkiv, Eastern Ukraine. A team of engineers wheels a prototype armored vehicle onto a test track. Eight wheels, a low welded hull,...
July 1944, a classified file moves through the United States War Department. The proposal is unusual. A new artillery shell code named T4. Core, a metal mine 6,000 mi away...
Tunisia, early 1943. The 8th Army has been pushing west for 3 months. Across the Tunisian front, a pattern is forming. German infantry companies hold prepared positions, reverse slopes, good...
Northern Iraq, spring of 1991. The story passed from unit to unit like this. A British soldier was down inside a suspected minefield. Conventional vehicles could not reach him without...
2005 Boington Tank Museum Dorset. Royal Marines line up in front of a vehicle that looks like someone welded two armored boxes together with a hinge. The front cab drives,...
Late 1942, the Pentagon, Washington. A board of senior American officers has just killed one of the most advanced armored cars ever built. Brigadier General Palmer’s special armored vehicle board...
April 3rd, 1971, Nashville Municipal Auditorium. What started as a friendly tribute concert turned into one of the most powerful spiritual moments in music history. Johnny Cash, in front of...
In June 1974, inside a packed arena in Louisville, a single voice tried to ruin Elvis’s entire show. Thousands heard the insult echo across the stage. But Elvis didn’t miss...
Elvis Presley had performed thousands of shows, but on June 26th, 1977, Indianapolis, something happened no one expected. In the middle of his final gospel song, his voice cracked, then...