German Spies Were Shocked Ford Built A 1.5 Million Part Bomber Every 63 Minutes
March 17th, 1943. Turpit Sufa 76 to78 Berlin. The folder slammed onto the mahogany desk with such force that coffee splashed from Admiral Wilhelm Canaris’ porcelain cup,…
Germans Were Surprised When Proximity Fuses Wiped Out Entire Formations At The Battle Of The Bulge
December 16th, 1944. Early morning, Mona, Germany. The frozen earth trembled as another salvo of American artillery screamed overhead. But something was different this morning. Terrifyingly, incomprehensibly…
D Day From The German Perspective
June 6th, 1944 00015 hours. Strongpoint WN62 Omaha Beach. Gerright Hinrich Seau carefully cleaned the barrel of his MG42 machine gun in the concrete bunker overlooking the…
When German POWs Reached America It Was The Most Unusual Sight For Them
June 4th, 1943, Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia. Unoffitzier Herman Butcher gripped the ship’s railing as he descended the gangplank, his legs unsteady after 14 days crossing the…
Japanese Pilots Laughed At The F6F Hellcat, Until It Swept Their Zeros From The Sky
September 1st, 1943. Rabol airfield, New Britain. Lieutenant Commander Saburo Sakai’s hand paused over the intelligence report, his one good eye, the other lost to American gunners…
German Pilots Mocked The Tuskegee ‘Red Tails’ — Then U.S. Aces Racked Up Over 100 Kills
July 2nd, 1943. Castell Vatrono airfield, Sicily. The Fauler Wolf 190’s pilot never saw the P40 Warhawk diving from above until machine gun fire tore through his…
Hermann Göring Laughed At US Plan For 50,000 Planes – Then America Built 100,000
May 28th, 1940. Reich Air Ministry, Berlin. Reich Marshal Herman Guring set down the intelligence report with undisguised contempt. The document detailed President Roosevelt’s request to Congress…
German POWs Couldn’t Believe Ice Cream And Coca-Cola in American Prison Camps
Summer 1943. Camp Crossville, Tennessee. The brown liquid fizzing in the bottle mesmerized the German soldier who had never seen anything like it. After 2 years fighting…
German Troops Never Knew American Sherman Tanks Had The World’s Most Advanced Radios
February 20th, 1943, north of Casarin Pass, Tunisia. The battle report would never fully capture what the German tank commanders witnessed that morning. American Sherman tanks executing…
German Colonel Captured 50,000 Gallons of US Fuel and Realized Germany Was Doomed
December 17th, 1944. 0530 hours. Hansfeld, Belgium. The Tiger Tanks engine coughed, sputtered, then died. SS Obashto Banura Yahim Piper slammed his fist against the turret hatch,…