Woody Strode staggered out of the burning doorframe with smoke rising off his jacket, and the man standing 20 ft away with a clipboard said, “That’s good. Let’s go again.”...
John Wayne was mid-draw in a gunfight scene when he saw the man in the wheelchair behind the set barriers and he froze, guns still holstered, 200 crew members waiting,...
October 1958 Just before dawn outside the little town of Rolla, Missouri, a young farmer named Roy Callaway is standing at the edge of his cornfield in the gray half-light...
June 1941, Halfaya Pass, Egypt, 11 km from the Libyan border. British tank crews called it Hellfire Pass, and they earned that name the hard way. Matilda tanks, the pride...
November 26, 1926. Hurstl, Belgium, FN factory floor. John Moses Browning, the greatest firearms designer in history, collapsed at his workbench and died. He was 71 years old. On the...
November 1942. A German officer walks through the foggy streets of Copenhagen. He never hears the shot. He never sees the weapon. One moment he’s alive, the next he is...
August 7th, 1942. Gavutu Island, Solomon Islands. A tiny coral outcrop barely 300 yards long, crawling with 500 Japanese defenders dug into concrete bunkers and limestone caves. Platoon Sergeant Harry...
Late January 1945, the forest along the German border sits under 2 ft of packed snow and the temperature has not climbed above freezing in 6 days. In a foreign...
2200 hours, December 19th, 1944. The temperature has dropped to 12° below freezing. And in a shallow scrape of a foxhole outside a small Belgian crossroads town called Bastogne, an...
6:00 in the morning, the 13th of June, 1944. One mile southwest of a small Normandy town called Karantan, the fog has not yet burned off the marsh grass, and...