His Crew Thought He Was Out of His Mind — Until His Maneuver Stopped 14 Attackers Cold…
14 German fighters closing fast, a formation of bombers, bleeding fuel and fire, and one pilot who ignored every rule in the manual and told his crew…
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…
What Made Fighting Germans So HARD for US Soldiers in WWII…
The Training Advantage understand why fighting Germans was so hard, start with this question. When did German soldiers start training for war? If you said when they…
German mockery ended — when Patton shattered the ring around Bastogne
December 22nd 1944 1447 SS Oberg group and furer Zep Dietrich stood by a map in his command post in Leglaze and smiled. His sixth SS Panzer…
“He’s Flying Too Low—We Can’t Hit Him” — German Radios Panicked as 9 Artillery Positions Went Silent
February 1945, Northern Italy. A single P47 Thunderbolt drops to 60 ft above frozen ground. Canopy close enough to catch the spray of snow kicked up by…
What American Generals Said When They Saw Canadian Soldiers Fight at D-Day…
June 6th, 1944. Juno Beach, Normandy, France. The cold ocean spray hit the faces of 14,000 Canadian soldiers as their landing craft bobbed in 10-ft waves. It…
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 “Quiet Major” Who Ignored Orders and Saved Patton’s Army…
You are standing in a war room somewhere in France. It is late November 1944. The walls are bare plaster or canvas stretched over wooden frames. A…
Luftwaffe Pilots Were Shocked When P-51 Mustangs Appeared Over Berlin
March 6th, 1944, 28,000 ft above Brandenburgg, Germany, the oxygen mask froze against Major Hans Kogler’s face as he scanned the crystalline sky through his Messid BF…
Why Eisenhower Stripped Montgomery of 300,000 American Soldiers…
Early January 1945, Dwight Eisenhower faced the worst command crisis of the war. His British field marshal had just insulted every American soldier at a press conference….