Japanese Couldn’t Stop This ‘Child-Sized’ Jeep — Until It Killed 30 Attackers in One Morning-ZZ
At 0445 on July 7th, 1944, Lieutenant Colonel William Joseph O’Brien stood in the center of his battalion’s defensive line on the Tanipag plane in…
Read moreWhen This ‘Knee-High’ Plane Charged Germans — Nobody Believed What Happened Next-ZZ
At 9:42 on the morning of April 11th, 1945, First Lieutenant Merritt Dwayne Francies banked his Piper L4H Grasshopper over a muddy road near Dannenburgg,…
Read moreThey Couldn’t Find This ‘Ghost’ Soldier — Until He Killed 116 Japanese in 21 Days-ZZ
At 0430 on January 9th, 1942, Captain Arthur Wormouth crouched in a foxhole on the Abukay line in Baton, watching Japanese troops mass for another…
Read moreThey Mocked His ‘Toy Plane’ With Bazookas — Until He Burned Tiger Tanks-ZZ
At 0615 on September 20th, 1944, Major Charles Carpenter crouched beside his Piper L4 Grasshopper on a muddy airirstrip near Aracord, France, watching fog roll…
Read moreWhy This Marine Dove Into the Firing Cannon Barrel — And Saved 7,500 Men His First Day-ZZ
At 7:26 on the morning of November 1st, 1943, Sergeant Robert Allan Owens crouched behind a sand dune on Cape Tokina, Bugganville, watching a Japanese…
Read moreWhen This Gun Started Firing — It Didn’t Stop Even After The Ship Was Sinking-ZZ
At 1840 on May 3rd, 1945, Commander William Sanders watched 25 radar contacts converge on his destroyer Mind Sweeper north of Okinawa. 15 years Navy…
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