Major Richard Bong – fighter pilot, national hero, and crocodile hunter – was indeed a proper legend.
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Dr Dabbs – When America’s Ace of Aces “Shot Down” a Crocodile
BY Will Dabbs Updated: December 30, 2023Albert Sidney Johnston: ‘I Ain’t Got Time to Bleed’
BY Will Dabbs Updated: November 25, 2023Confederate President Jefferson Davis confidentially stated to friends that he believed the death of Johnston to be, “the turning point of our fate” in the western theater of operations.
George Washington and the Near Killing of the Father of Our Country
BY Will Dabbs Updated: November 19, 2023George Washington was a flawed man, as are we all, but he had an undeniably charmed life. He was the right man at the right time to birth the greatest nation the world has ever seen.
The Lunatic Limey Who Poked a Panzer with a Parasol
BY Will Dabbs Updated: November 12, 2023Running low on ammunition and facing a determined enemy in a built-up battlespace, Digby ordered a desperate bayonet charge.
Dr. Dabbs – The Wolf Truce of 1917
BY Will Dabbs Updated: October 26, 2023One might think that heavily-armed soldiers would be immune to animal predation. However, nothing distracts a man like artillery and the prospect of being ripped to pieces by hot sleeting steel.
The IDF Mekut’zar Carbine: The Extraordinary Israeli Improvised Rifle
BY Will Dabbs Updated: October 22, 2023Certain dark days are burned into our national consciousness. For us, that day was obviously 9/11. On the morning of 7 October 2023, the nation of Israel had their own 9/11.
Dr Dabbs – Rod Serling: The Voyage into the Twilight Zone
BY Will Dabbs Updated: October 12, 2023The Twilight Zone really did make you think. Like most truly revolutionary artistic endeavors, the show was the product of a singularly creative mind. Rod Serling was a remarkable man indeed.
Dr. Dabbs – Killing Gandhi: The Beretta M1934
BY Will Dabbs Updated: January 7, 202478 at the time of his death, Mahatma Gandhi was admittedly both old and thin. However, three of these underpowered little bullets fired from an assassin’s gun still nonetheless extinguished his mortal light in short order.
Violette Szabo: The Alpha Spy
BY Will Dabbs Updated: September 28, 2023Violette Szabo was indeed a rare patriot. Her story of selfless sacrifice for the cause of freedom should inspire all of us today.
Dr. Dabbs – Dueling Doctors: The Curiously Violent Origins of the AMA
BY Will Dabbs Updated: September 24, 2023Reality is strange. The American Medical Association technically had its earliest origins in two physicians who tried mightily to snuff each other’s mortal flicker at the muzzle of a handgun.