The Most Ruthless Black American Soldiers Patton Was Afraid to Send to War…
October 1944. The boardrooms of the Allied High Command in France were thick with smoke and heavy with tension. General George S. Patton, the man they called…
They Sent 40 ‘Criminals’ to Fight 30,000 Japanese — What Happened Next Created Navy SEALs…
At 8:44 a.m. on June 15th, 1944, First Lieutenant Frank Tachsky crouched in a Higgins boat 300 yards from Saipan southern beaches as Japanese artillery shells exploded…
When They Put a P-39 Nose on a Tiny Boat — Japanese Called Them “Devil Boats”…
At 23:45 on October 19th, 1942, Lieutenant Robert Lynch crouched behind the wheel of PT48 watching three Japanese Dhatsu barges cut through the Blackwater off Cape Esperants….
The Phone Call That Made Eisenhower CRY – Patton’s 4 Words That Changed Everything
December [music] 16th, 1944. If General George Smith Patton hadn’t made one phone call, if he hadn’t spoken four impossible words, the United States would have lost…
Why Patton’s Predecessor Was Promoted – The Scandal That Outraged the Army
March 5th, 1943. Major General Lloyd Fredendall was meeting with Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower at Second Corps headquarters in Tunisia. Eisenhower had flown in personally to deliver…
D-Day | How One General Turned Disaster Into Victory (WW2 Documentary)
June 6th, 1944. Normandy. On the bloodiest stretch of the bloodiest beach, everything had gone wrong. The 29th Infantry, green, untested, was promised a swift victory. What…
“Is THIS American Prison Food?” German Women POWs Couldn’t Believe They Were Served Steak in Camps
April 1945, Camp Florence, Arizona. The desert sun beat down like a hammer. 22-year-old Greta Hoffman stepped off the transport truck, wrists still marked from the ropes,…
THE P-51’S SECRET: HOW PACKARD ENGINEERS AMERICANIZED BRITAIN’S MERLIN ENGINE
August 2nd, 1941, Detroit, Michigan. Inside Packard Motorcar Company’s East Grand Boulevard plant, two Rolls-Royce Merlin engines roared to life on test stands. But something was different….
Held in Minnesota: Untold WWII POW Stories
The story of the prisoner of war camps in Minnesota, people don’t know much about it today. – We had Germans. They’re from World War II. There…
D-Day From the German Perspective
You’re probably already familiar with D-Day, June 6th, 1944. Over 160,000 Allied troops storming five beaches in Normandy, changing the course of World War II forever. But…