What Eisenhower Said To His Staff When Patton Crossed the Rhine Without Orders… March 22nd, 1945. The phone rang at Supreme Headquarters. Eisenhower picked it up, expecting another routine...
What Japanese Admirals Said When They Realized Midway Was an Ambush… June 4th, 1942. Vice Admiral Tuichi Nagumo stood on the bridge of the carrier Akagi, watching his aircraft...
John Wayne Met A Real IWO JIMA Marine At His Movie Premiere—The Salute Changed Everything… November 1949, a man in marine dress blues walked into the Sands of Ewima...
What American Generals Said When They Saw Canadian Soldiers Fight at D-Day… June 6th, 1944. Juno Beach, Normandy, France. The cold ocean spray hit the faces of 14,000 Canadian...
German POWs Laughed at Slow U.S. Tractors — Until They Saw Them Feed Entire Cities… They stood at the fence line watching the American farmer drive past on his...
Soviet Generals Were Stunned US M2 Bradley Vehicles Could Destroy Their Tanks From Miles Away… The date is February 26th, 1991. The location, a sector of the Iraqi desert...
Japanese POWs in Michigan Were Allowed to Shop in Town — They Thought Americans Had Gone Mad… December 1943, Campo Train, Michigan. Lieutenant Teeshi Yamamoto stepped through the gates...
“Take everything off, it’s just an examination” – what they did to the young captives was more terrible than pain These testimonies were recorded in Kyiv in 2012. Zinaida...
“9 minutes” — The amount of time the German soldier had with each French prisoner in room 6 I was 20 years old when I learned that the human...
The German soldiers’ actions towards the French prisoners were a truly cowardly act. I was 25 years old when I learned what these human beings meant. It wasn’t instantaneous. It...