Why British Officers Were Shocked By American Training-ZZ
The date is the spring of 1942. A British colonel, a career officer named Jeffrey Keys stands at the edge of a training ground somewhere…
Read moreHow The U.S. Marines Created A Tactic Japan Never Learned To Counter-ZZ
November 20th, 1943. Private Don Crane is 19 years old from Montana, sitting in the driver’s seat of an armored amphibious tractor called LVT41, nicknamed…
Read moreHow US Engineers Built What Germany Called Physically ‘Impossible’-ZZ
March 7th, 1945, 3:30 in the afternoon. Captain Carl Fzenhan stands at the eastern end of the Ludenorf Bridge in Reumagen, Germany, holding a detonator….
Read moreHow Two Bitter Rivals Built The Strategy That Won The Pacific-ZZ
October 20th, 1944. Lee Island, the Philippines. The camera is already rolling when the ramp of a small landing craft drops into kneedeep surf. The…
Read moreUS Destroyer Tactics That Terrified Japan’s Elite Submarine Crews-ZZ
May 22nd, 1944, 3:40 in the morning. The Pacific Ocean north of the Admiral Ty Islands is black, warm, and absolutely silent. Aboard a Japanese…
Read moreGerman Officer Tested Captured Bazooka… His Words Shocked-ZZ – Part 2
The doctrine of the shoulder fired anti-tank rocket launcher that Skinner and Ool had pioneered in 1942 became the standard infantry approach for the rest…
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