Will Dabbs

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Gunfire in London: The 1911 Sidney Street Siege

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The 1911 Siege of Sidney Street: a deadly London gunfight where Churchill deployed troops against anarchists.

Operation Grim Beeper – Inside Israel’s Pager Trap

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Discover how Israel weaponized pagers and radios to take out hundreds of Hezbollah fighters in one of Mossad’s boldest covert ops.

The Bixby Shootout That Shook Abbeville, SC

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The 2003 Bixby standoff in Abbeville, SC, left two officers dead and exposed the dangers of sovereign citizen extremism.

Operation Just Cause: Fighting to the Death Over an Airport Restroom

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All proper soldiers want to come home with a good story. You’d like to be able to sit down someday with your grandkids and tell them how you rescued the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from the clutches of some evil despot. Tragically, the real world seldom works out quite like that.

3-Will-The Sailor with the Nautical Name Who Bookended World War 2

The Sailor with the Uniquely Nautical Name Who Bookended World War 2

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Discover Noah Adair, WWII naval heroics from Atlantic U-boats to Pacific kamikaze battles, and the family’s legacy of service.

Dr Dabbs – Conversing with the Dead

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The tragic 1866 murder of Elizabeth Ragland and frontier justice in Mississippi reveal a dark chapter of Civil War–era history.

Psycho Killers: Operation Tapeworm

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Uday and Qusay were both crazy, but they were two different flavors of crazy. Qusay was the more cerebral of the two. He married Maher Abd al-Rashid and fathered four children. Qusay killed methodically, institutionally, and, most typically, in the shadows.

A Little Girl’s Tidy Little Tragedy

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Young people perish in war. That’s what makes the practice so abjectly horrible. Kids are cut down in the prime of their lives. In the case of 1LT Mains, he was 28 years old the day he rode his B-24 Liberator in over Ludwigslust, Germany.

3-Will-The Russian Shooting Range Massacre: Sometimes It’s Best to Keep Religion Out of the Workplace

The Russian Shooting Range Massacre: The Perils of Religion in the Workplace

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Vladimir Putin’s legions rolled into neighboring Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The Russian Special Military Operation was the largest attack against a European country since World War 2. What Putin clearly thought would be a brief but violent incursion wherein the locals welcomed his occupying forces with open arms has turned out to be something altogether different. Now pushing two years on, Ukraine has been a bloodbath for all involved.

The 1980 Norco Shootout: A Tidy Little War

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The 1980 Norco shootout turned a bank robbery into a deadly gunfight that reshaped California law enforcement.