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“How Pappy Gunn Turned B-25 Bombers Into 14-Gun Monsters That Shredded Japanese Convoys”
The morning of September 12th, 1942, Charter Towers Airfield, Queensland, Australia. The heat rises in waves off the tarmac as a Douglas A20 Havoc light…
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The First Time Japan Saw B-29 Superfortresses Over Tokyo — They Flew Too High to Stop
November 24th, 1944. p.m. Tokyo, Japan. Air raid sirens began wailing across the city. Japanese air defense radar had picked up a formation approaching from…
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January 11, 1944: The Day German Pilots Saw P-51 Mustangs for the First Time — And Couldn’t Escape
January 11th, 1944 over central Germany. Luftwafa fighters climbed to intercept an American bomber formation heading toward targets in Brunswick and Osher Sleven. Standard mission.…
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They Shot Down His P-51 — So He Stole a German Fighter and Flew Home
The sky over Nazi occupied Europe was a graveyard dart every morning. American bomber formations. Hundreds of B7s and B24s crossed the English Channel like…
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They Could Have Landed Safely — Instead They Flew Their Burning B-24 Into the Target
At a.m. on August 1st, 1943, Lieutenant Colonel Addison Baker and Major John Gerstad climbed into B24 Liberator Hell’s Wench at Benghazi airfield in Libya…
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Pilot Ejected Over Enemy Territory.Landed in a Stadium.50,000 Germans Started Clapping
Pilot Ejected Over Enemy Territory. Landed in a Stadium. 50,000 Germans Started Clapping Imagine parachuting into enemy territory in the middle of a packed stadium…
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1,200 Bullet Hits.Wings Ripped Open… He Flew the Skeleton Home
A bomber flying with its tail practically torn off, connected only by a few wires and pieces of metal. 10 men who should have been…
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The “Mad” Mechanic Who Rebuilt a Crashed P-38 in the Jungle and Sent It Back to War
Deep in the New Guinea jungle, 1943, a mangled P38 Lightning lay upside down in a swamp. The pilot had escaped, but the aircraft was…
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“Fire Him and I Resign” — Why Did Patton’s Ultimatum Leave Eisenhower Stunned?
In the freezing twilight of late December 1944, a terrifying reality dawned on Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery. The relief of…
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An Invisible Weapon Fell for 8 Days — 20,000 German Soldiers Never Escaped
December 14th, 1944. Sixth Panzer Army headquarters near Bad Noanar. Sept Dietrich stands over a map that offers no mercy. He is 52 years old.…
- German POWs in Idaho Were Shocked When American Ranchers Using “Salt Licks” to Control Cattles
The cattle came without being forced. Thousands of them moved across the high desert plateau,… Read more: German POWs in Idaho Were Shocked When American Ranchers Using “Salt Licks” to Control Cattles - German POWs General Couldn’t Believe Their First Day In America
Camp Swift, Texas, July 1944. The convoy appeared first as a mirage on the flat… Read more: German POWs General Couldn’t Believe Their First Day In America - What Happened to Nazi Germany’s Giant U-Boat Pens Built to Survive 1,000 Bombs After WW2?
May 8th, 1945. The port city of Lauron, France, falls silent for the first time… Read more: What Happened to Nazi Germany’s Giant U-Boat Pens Built to Survive 1,000 Bombs After WW2? - (4296) Why Japanese Pilots Stopped Reporting Hellcat Encounters — Because None Ever Returned
October 19th, 1944, 70 mi east of Luzon in the Philippine Sea, Lieutenant Junior Grade… Read more: (4296) Why Japanese Pilots Stopped Reporting Hellcat Encounters — Because None Ever Returned - SS Officer Vanished To South America — Generations Later, His Jungle Hideout Was Finally Found
In 1945, as Berlin burned, one man simply disappeared while Allied forces closed in and… Read more: SS Officer Vanished To South America — Generations Later, His Jungle Hideout Was Finally Found - “Remove Your Bra But Keep Everything Else” — The Command That Left German Women POWs Confused
Remove your bra. Keep everything else on. The translator repeats it slowly like she misheard,… Read more: “Remove Your Bra But Keep Everything Else” — The Command That Left German Women POWs Confused