He wasn’t supposed to stay, just borrowed one patrol. That was the plan. We were running crossber operations out of Quantum in late ‘ 69. MACV SOG, studies and observations...
May 28th, 1982. Darwin Ridge, East Falkland. Lieutenant Colonel H. Jones lies dying in a peat gully, and by every military rulebook on Earth, the attack on Goose Green should...
A German major locked inside an unbreakable fortress laughed when he saw 60 Girka soldiers appear behind his walls at dawn, then went silent when he saw what they held...
The most powerful tank on the planet burns through 60 gall of fuel every single hour it moves. 60 gall. That is not a misprint. The American M1 Abrams, the...
Panzer was supposed to be the answer to every problem the German army had by 1944. Not scraped together from replacement pools, not stitched from tired veterans pulled off other...
Normandy, France. The 18th of July, 1944. A hedger throws long shadows across a lane near Borgaboose. And inside a Sherman tank, the air smells of hot oil and cordite....
September 1999, the warf at HMAS Stirling, Western Australia, a crane swings a flat angular machine onto the deck of HMAS Tobruk. It sits on eight black rubber wheels. It’s...
January 1945, the village of Saeffelen, Germany. A Wehrmacht garrison of 300 men had held out for days. The British artillery had fired 28 tons of shells into the position....
1938 A Hungarian weapons testing ground on Haros Island south of Budapest. Military officials from seven nations have now seen the same demonstration. A light tank bolted to oversized pontoons...
An Uber Driver Picked Up a Stranger—Then Years Later, He Gave Him the Ultimate Gift: A Kidney That Saved His Life The Uber Ride That Changed Two Lives Forever —...