Germans Were Outranged By Patton’s ‘Greatest Battle Implement’ – The M1 Garand
December 16th, 1944. 0530 hours. Shne Eiffel Ridge, Belgian German border. The frozen mud cracked beneath boots as German forces prepared for what would become the Battle…
How One “Mad” Welder’s “Rejected Gun” Saved 50 Million Man-Hours During WW2
March 1941, Mayor Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. The welding torch flickered in the dim light of the submarine construction bay as Edward Nelson, an $11 a…
German Infiltrators Dressed As GIs Caused Chaos Until U.S. MPs Exposed Them With A Baseball Question
December 17th, 1944. A checkpoint outside Iweila, Belgium. The jeep rolled to a stop as the military policeman raised his hand, his breath visible in the frozen…
Wehrmacht Mechanics Drove A Captured Jeep — Then Admitted They’d Never Had Vehicles Like It
November 12th, 1942. The Western Desert, North Africa. The captured American vehicle sat abandoned near a destroyed British supply column. Its crew having fled when their position…
Germans Never Expected HVAP Rounds To Make 76mm Shermans Panther-Killers
September 19th, 1944. The fog shrouded fields near Araor, France. First Left tenant Merwin Men of the 37th Tank Battalion gripped his Sherman’s turret rim as his…
Why Did The Americans Hate Bernard Montgomery So Much?
December 20th, 1944. Luxembourg City. The telephone line crackled with barely suppressed fury as General Omar Bradley gripped the receiver, his knuckles white against the black bakelight….
Japanese Pilots Were Shocked by America’s P-38 Lightnings in the Solomons
December 27th, 1942. Port Moresby, New Guinea. The lightning strikes. The morning sun cast long shadows across the steel matting of Loki airfield as ground crews pulled…
Germany Built 1,347 Tiger Tanks – Then America Rolled Out 49,234 Shermans
August 8th, 1944, near Senth, south of Kong, Normandy, France. The leather of his commander’s gloves creaked as Huptman Michael Vitman gripped the cupup of Tiger 007,…
German Tankers Never Knew The American Hellcat Could Reach 55 MPH
September 19th, 1944 0615 hours near Aracort, Eastern France. The morning fog hung thick over the Lraine countryside as the Panthers of the 113th Panza Brigade advanced…
US Marines Found A Japanese Ha-Go Tank — Laughed That .50 Cal Bullets Went Straight Through It
They were convinced their tanks were invincible. The type 95 Hgo had proven itself against Chinese forces, against Soviet armor at Hulkin Gaul and in the sweeping…