
Picture this. It’s 1943 and Japanese submarine commanders are prowling the Pacific with the confidence of apex predators. They’ve been terrorizing Allied shipping lanes for…

Picture this. It’s the dead of night on October 25th, 1944. In the black waters of the Philippines, two Japanese battleships steam confidently through the…

What do you call a general who deliberately disobys direct orders from Washington, fires Allied commanders in the middle of battle, and creates an international…

What would you do if your military career was hanging by a thread? Your superiors hated you? You’d been court marshaled, and you’d already failed…

On May 5th, 1945, in the final days of World War II, something occurred that had never happened before and would never happen again. American…

The train pulled into Norfolk station in January 1944, carrying a cargo that would have been unthinkable just years earlier. As the doors opened, hundreds…

What if I told you that one of World War II’s most successful American generals was constantly criticized by his superiors for being too aggressive,…

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? On March 6th, 1945 in the forests of Germany, this wasn’t just a philosophical question.…

The morning of February 16th, 1944, 32.6 km off Tratoll in the Caroline Islands. Through the gray haze of early Pacific dawn, a Japanese destroyer…

At 8:21 a.m. on October 14th, 1943, 291 B17 flying fortresses turned towards Schweinfoot, Germany, while their fighter escorts prepared to turn back in less…




