Abdul Hamid was an Indian soldier who fought and died in the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War. His battlefield exploits were legendary.
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Abdul Hamid: The Subcontinent’s Audie Murphy
BY Will Dabbs Published: January 14, 2024 { 3 comments }Dr. Dabbs – Donald Pleasence: Art Imitates Life
BY Will Dabbs Published: January 7, 2024 { 10 comments }Donald Pleasence spent a substantial portion of World War 2 languishing in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
Dr Dabbs – When America’s Ace of Aces “Shot Down” a Crocodile
BY Will Dabbs Published: December 30, 2023 { 12 comments }Major Richard Bong – fighter pilot, national hero, and crocodile hunter – was indeed a proper legend.
Albert Sidney Johnston: ‘I Ain’t Got Time to Bleed’
BY Will Dabbs Published: November 25, 2023 { 8 comments }Confederate 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 Published: November 19, 2023 { 2 comments }George 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 Published: November 12, 2023 { 5 comments }Running 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 Published: October 26, 2023 { 8 comments }One 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 Published: October 22, 2023 { 42 comments }Certain 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 Published: October 12, 2023 { 12 comments }The 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 Published: October 8, 2023 { 9 comments }78 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.









