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Why One Submarine Cook Started Throwing “Scraps” — And Sunk EveryU-BoatHeFound
March 15, 1943. The North Atlantic, 40 nautical miles southwest of Iceland. The seas run gray and cold beneath a March sky that promises snow.…
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Why One Submarine Cook Started Throwing “Scraps” — And Sunk EveryU-BoatHeFound
March 14th, 1943, North Atlantic, 380 mi southwest of Iceland. The crew of HMS Starling, a British riverclass frigot, watched their sonar operator’s face go…
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They Mocked His P 51 “Crazy Dive” Until He Shot Down 9 in One Pass
June 15th, 1944. The Norman Boage, three miles south of Villa’s Boage. A Panza officer peers through his periscope at the narrow lane ahead. Hedge…
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They Mocked His P 51 “Crazy Dive” Until He Shot Down 9 in One Pass
October 1944. The skies over Belgium are a gray freezing canvas where men die in variables of seconds and inches. A lone P-51D Mustang painted…
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How One Gunner’s ‘ILLEGAL’ Sight Turned the B-17 Into a Killer Machine
Previously, we compared America’s two most iconic Pacific War fighters, the F4U Corsair and the F6F Hellcat. Drawing the conclusion that the Hellcat with its…
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How One Gunner’s ‘ILLEGAL’ Sight Turned the B-17 Into a Killer Machine
In 1937, the US Army Air Corps issued a challenge. Build a fighter fast enough to intercept enemy bombers at 20,000 ft. While most aircraft…
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How One Gunner’s ‘ILLEGAL’ Sight Turned the B-17 Into a Killer Machine
October 14th, 1943. 5 miles above the Earth, deep inside the hostile airspace of the German Reich, Staff Sergeant Michael Romano is crouching inside a…
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How One Farm Kid’s Stupid Mistake With Explosives Created a New Bunker Busting Technique
March 1945. A field outside Beerfeld, Western Germany. Wreckage of a shot down Lancaster bomber scattered across frozen mud. German Luftwaffa engineer Walter crouches beside…
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How One Farm Kid’s Stupid Mistake With Explosives Created a New Bunker Busting Technique
There were many terrifying jobs in history and World War II in particular, but few compared to this one. A freezing metal sphere hanging from…
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How a Teenage Gunner’s Broken Sight Actually Helped Him Shoot Down 6 Messerschmitts
He Broke Every Fighter Rule — And Lived In 1943, US bomber gunners were following the rulebook perfectly, and that’s why so many of them…
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