war stories

When war broke out, Harrisson joined the Army, as did almost every British male of appropriate age and fitness.

On 18 July 1944, an officer in the Irish Guards named LT John Gorman commanded a section of three M4 Shermans out looking for trouble as part of Operation Goodwood.

Bruce Carr’s exploits would make a fantastic movie, but I’m afraid nobody would believe it was real.

He was going to transform this daily parade into a gory resistance spectacle. To do so, he required a seriously crazy pilot. His first choice was Flight Lieutenant Alfred Kitchener Gatward.

We guys do take our sports seriously. The psychosocial impetus behind this curious phenomenon is indeed fascinating.

I was eighteen years old. It would be another three years before society would trust me to drink a beer or buy a handgun, but Uncle Sam had taught me how to kill a man efficiently and effectively with a bayonet.

Though the nuances are lost on a modern generation of lamentably binary Americans, imbedded within the school’s history we see the possibility that very good people might support some very bad causes.

His forte was the hulking villain, and he played that to perfection. Friends knew him as Big Bill.

In 1942, a Luftwaffe pilot named Armin Faber inadvertently and singlehandedly changed the calculus of the air war over Europe.