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Hiroshima August 6, 1945: Little Boy Harnesses the Power of the Stars
On August 6, 1945, a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima; it released the power of the stars, showering the city with a massive amount of heat and light. Code-named Little Boy, it altered the course of human history and set man on the road to self-destruction.
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Nasa's Apollo Missions
The exploration of space is man's greatest challenge. Project Appollo represents mankind's greatest step toward to achieving that goal. Man entered a new age of exploration as billions from earth watched astronauts walk on the moon and beam back images of our blue planet from space on July 20,1969.
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The Legend of the Mach 6 SR-72 Aurora: A History of Hypersonic Flight
The SR-72 is one the world's most secretive aircraft skipping along near the edge of space unseen by those of us on the ground. It has a cruising speed of 4567 mph, Mach 6, leaving it untouchable to our enemies. Known as the Aurora, it flies out of legendary Area 51 and is cloaked in secrecy.
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Waffen SS Combat Group Peiper Attacks
In December 1944, Adolf Hitler planned a surprise offensive to win a war that already seemed lost. Joachim Peiper led the attack which called for a lightning thrust to assault and capture the bridges over Belgium's Meuse River. His attack would go down in history as brutal and senseless endeavor.
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Breakthrough at Sedan: May 1940
In the summer of 1940, Hitler's legions of tanks and dive bombers crashed through a small town in the Ardennes smashing the Allied defensive line opening France to invading German armies. As the German tanks raced toward the Channel Coast a new concept of mobile warfare, was revealed to the world.
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Kursk 1943: The Greatest Tank Battle in History
On July 5, 1943, Nazi and Red Army tanks clashed near Kursk, two million men supported by over six thousand tanks met for an epic struggle which became one of the most important military engagements in history. It signaled the end of Nazi military dominance over Soviet forces on the Eastern front.
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SS Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny: The Devil's Commando
During the Second World War, Otto Skorzeny would lead several daring operations including the daring Grand Sasso raid which rescued Benito Mussolini from captivity and a certain death. After the war Skorzeny's life is shrouded in a certain amount of mystery, some say he became Eva Peron's lover.
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Carl Sagan, Voyager and Exploring the Vastness of Space
Carl Sagan's eloquence on television and the printed page was a dramatic pulling force in the 1980s leading many Americans to follow scientific careers. He was a powerful advocate of the Voyager missions which have entered interstellar space and are now the most distant man-made objects from Earth.
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The Desperate Battle for Elkhorn Tavern in Pea Ridge Arkansas, 1862
A remote tavern in the Ozark wilderness would become a focal point for the largest and most deadly battle west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. Possession of the Elkhorn Tavern would determine if Missouri remained with the Union or become part of the Confederacy.
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Antwerp 1944: City of Sudden Death December
Hitler would unleash the V-2, one of his most terrifying wonder weapons on Antwerp, Belgium, in the fall of 1944, hoping to strike horror among its citizens. He expected it to turn the tide of war against the Allies as their troops were poised to invade Germany.
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The Fall of French Indochina: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The French military defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954 marked the end of their involvement in southeast Asia after a three-decade effort to colonize the area. Their brutal occupation and arrogance would prove to be their downfall.
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The Blood -Soaked Guerrilla War in Kansas and Missouri 1860-65
The citizens of Kansas would live in a constant state of readiness as Confederate guerillas roamed the countryside burning free staters farms and taking anything of value. William Quantrill would lead many Confederate guerillas on raids throughout Missouri and Kansas.
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Spanish Influenza of 1918
The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 was the most devastating epidemic in history. Before the pandemic faded away, it would kill between 20 million and 40 million people more than any other outbreak of disease in human history. As we deal with COVID 19 we revisit the nightmare.
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The Battle of the Coral Sea: The Unveiling of Magic May 1942
In 1942 Japan's blitzkrieg throughout the Southwest Pacific left the world holding its breath. After Singapore fell, it seemed to be only a matter of time until Australia would fall victim to Japan's aggression. It would take the insidious ultra-secret weapon "Magic" to save Australia from invasion.
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Midway 1942: Magic Blunts Japan's Expansion in the Pacific
Few battles in history where the course of events tipped so dramatically as they did in the battle for Midway. The Battle of Midway demonstrated that this new kind of fighting had surely replaced battleship warfare and made the carrier the most important vessel of World War II.
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Iwo Jima February 1945: The Battle for Devil's Island
The battle for Iwo Jima would leave both sides involved, shaken by the sheer scale of violence as they fought for this tiny volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean. Of the 21,000 Japanese defending the island, less than 200 would survive; it would become the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history.
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J. D. Salinger's "Ritchie Boys" Nightmare Begins: D-Day Normandy June 6, 1944
On June 6,1944, Allied troops assaulted the beaches of Normandy, they had to breach a massive concrete coastal defense system with over 15,000 strong points known as the "Atlantic Wall". One of those troops would write the "Catcher in the Rye" a novel that set the stage for post for war alienation.
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America's "Ace of Aces" of the First World War
Eddie Rickenbacker would become one of the world's first pioneers of flight, leading the world into commercial aviation by buying Eastern Airlines in 1938. But first he would lead the United States during the First World War as one of the twentieth century's " Ace of Aces."
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City of Death: Hue South Vietnam 1968
The Second Indochina War, known as the Vietnam War to Americans, forever changed American's faith in their government. The fall of the city of Hue in 1968 would surprise many Americans, who were led to believe the U.S. was winning the war. It marks the end of American's age of innocence.
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Gettysburg: The Army of Northern Virginia's Road to Destruction
In an epic three-day battle, confederate general Robert E. Lee gambled everything to save the South from total destruction only to be turned back in a savage battle of attrition near the town of Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The battle would lead Union troops on a march to the bloody gates of Richmond.
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J.D. Salinger Member of the "Ritchie Boys" a Secretive Jewish Combat Intelligence Group on the Western Front 1944-45
From D-Day until the end of the war in Europe J.D. Salinger would be on the front lines battling the best troops Hitler could put in the field. Few Americans realize that the well-known author of "The Catcher in the Rye" was a veteran of a secret combat intelligence group known as the "Richie Boys."
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Blitzkrieg: Hitler's Invasion of Poland September 1,1939
On September 1,1939, Adolf Hitler unleashed his armored legions upon Poland using this small country as a testing ground for the Blitzkrieg. In less than six weeks Hitler's armies would change the face of armored warfare.
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Tobruk 1942: The Myth of the Desert Fox
In 1942 Adolf Hitler sent one of his best generals to Libya to rescue Italian troops from Britain's desert army. Erwin Rommel would lead the German counterattack putting Britain's troops on their heels and even threating the Suez Canal, Britian's lifeline to the far east.
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J.D. Salinger's "Ritchie Boys" Frozen Nightmare: Battle of the Bulge 1944
Hitler's last great gamble in the forests of the Ardennes in December 1944 is the largest and most deadly land battle in American military history. J.D. Salinger's division would be shattered during the battle leaving him with PTSD as the war ended.
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Berlin April 1945 : The Devil's Cauldron
After over five years of war and more than 55 million deaths, the most feared empire in modern history met its end in Berlin. At its center was the paranoid, drug-transformed emperor, Adolf Hitler.
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Holocaust in the Sixteenth Century: De Soto's Invasion of North America, 1539-1542
De Soto's expedition in North America was an epic struggle that would end in disaster as his search for the lost city of El Dorado (the city of gold) proved to be a false dream. As he plunged deeper into the untamed wilderness of North America death circled his doomed expedition.
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Fallen Star: The Great Shawnee War Chief Tecumseh
Tecumseh's death in 1813 is one of the most significant moments in American history, depicted in a frieze in the rotunda at the U.S. Capitol. His death marked the end of his pan-Indian confederacy.
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The V-2 Ballistic Missile Campaign on London 1944-45: A New Type of Blitzkrieg
The Second World War had been dragging on for five bloody years in the fall of 1944. The British capital of London would become the target for a new revolutionary weapon which would set the stage for all future wars. Hitler wanted the Allies to pay for their bombing campaign against his Fatherland.
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The Battle for the Skies Over the Soviet Union:1941-45
Erich Hartmann would score more victories in the Second World War than any fighter pilot in the history of aerial warfare downing 352 Soviet planes as he prowled the skies over the Eastern Front.
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1945: The Atomic Bombing of Japan and The Fire Bombing of Germany
The air raids by the American and British Air Forces in the Second World War were the most destructive in human history leaving vast wastelands wherever their massive aerial armadas would strike.
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Total War in Arkansas and the Battle for Prairie Grove
After the Battle for Pea Ridge Union, army commander General Curtis would march his army through Arkansas, leaving devastation in its wake, as the Confederates attempted to regroup to fight another day.
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Bloody Wilson's Creek Missouri August 10, 1861
The Battle for Wilson's Creek took the national focus away from the battlefield at Bull Run which took place a month earlier and give the Confederacy another major victory over Union forces. As the American Civil War began it looked as if the Confederacy held the upper hand on the battlefield.
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Blitzkrieg in Western Europe: The Fall of France and the Third Republic
In the summer of 1940 Hitler would unleash his blitzkrieg on Western Europe it would roll over a vast Allied Army leaving the citizens of Western Europe under Nazi rule for the next five years.
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Operation Iceberg: Okinawa April 1945 the Meatgrinder
Okinawa was the bloodiest battle in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. It was where the commanding generals on both sides would die in battle. The Japanese army fought to the last man in the caves surrounding Shuri Castle, creating a killing zone like no other in the Pacific War.
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Verdun: Slaughter on the French Frontier 1916
Which battle lasted for ten months, the longest of the war? The battle of Verdun was a macabre portrait of the horrors of trench warfare. 37 million German and French shells were fired, creating a lunar landscape near Verdun.
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A History of Strategic Bombing
H.G. Wells predicted early in the Twentieth century that airpower would become both the product and the downfall of Western civilization. In the Second World War the bomber would bring about the greatest catastrophe in history bringing terror and death to millions of civilians, women and children.
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Spy Planes and Lockheed's Top Secret Skunk Works
Lockheed Skunk Works has created some of the most revolutionary airplane designs in aviation history many of its planes are still cloaked in mystery. Skunk Works newest planes are most likely beyond your wildest expectations, flying faster and higher than any in history sparking many UFO sightings.
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The Life and Death of Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin's story will forever be a part of the Russian landscape. His life and death forever changed the course of Russia's history. It opened the door to a Civil War and the rise of the Soviet Union which would fall victim to the Cold War in 1991.
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American's Worst and Least Known Nuclear Accident
Only surpassed by the Chernobyl reactor meltdown in the Ukraine and the Fukushima reactor meltdown in Japan the accident at Church Rock New Mexico still remains hidden to the world. The aftereffects continue to affect the residents of Church Rock today.
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The Emergence of Nuclear Power and the Meltdown at Three Mile Island: March 28,1979
The crisis at Three Mile Island began in the early morning of March 28, 1979, what happened in the next five days changed the course of nuclear power production in the United States.
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1948: The Birth of Israel and the Gaza Strip
The Civil War in Syria has given Iran the opportunity to position its Quds forces along the Golan Heights, forcing Israel's military to confront the threat as rockets rain down upon the Israeli positions.
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Pea Ridge: Bloody Turning Point West of the Mississippi
The Battle at Pea Ridge was a major turning point west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. The Confederate defeat left Arkansas open to troops and guerrillas from both sides who roamed the state forcing its citizens to endure a state of Total War until the war.
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Patton's Secret Strike Toward Hammelburg Germany : March 1945
One of the most ill conceived missions of the Second World War was Patton's raid on the prisoner of war camp at Hammelburg. The POW camp was located deep in German held territory just weeks before the end of the war.
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Kasserine Pass North Africa 1943
The Battle for Kasserine Pass was a series of battles fought in Tunisia in February of 1943. It was the United States' first major battlefield defeat of the Second World War.
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The Dangers of Extreme Weather and Nuclear Power
America has the possibility of experiencing a Fukushima type meltdown at any time, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should be warning American citizens about the threat. The United States has twenty-three nuclear power plants with the same design as the Fukushima plant.
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Guadalcanal— Turning Point in the Pacific :1942
Guadalcanal was the beginning of an island-hopping campaign which led Allied troops to the very gates of the Japan it was a turning point in the Pacific War forcing the Japanese military to go on the defensive.
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Light-Horse Harry Lee Tragic Hero of the American Revolution
Henry Lee III was a great American Revolutionary War hero and the father of Civil War general Robert E. Lee. He served as the ninth governor of Virginia only to later on being imprisoned twice for debt. His bad business investments forced him to leave the United States only to return near his death.
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Germany's Most Decorated Soldier of the Second World War: Stuka Pilot Hans Rudel
Hans Rudel was Germany's most highly decorated combat pilot of the Second World War. Known as the "Stuka Pilot" Rudel was shot down 29 times and survived to see the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
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Armageddon: Stalingrad 1942-1943
In the spring of 1942 Adolf Hitler would launch an all-out attack toward the city of Stalingrad, it raged for 199 days becoming the deadliest battle in history. The battle for Stalingrad would become a major turning point of the Second World War.
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Lawrence of Arabia and the Capture of Damascus
T.E. Lawrence's adventures in Middle East during the First World War will go down in history as of one of the most successful military operations in history which culminated to the capture of Damascus Syria October 1, 1918.
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The Myth of Osama bin Laden: Rise & Fall of the North Star
The world would become exposed to terrorism at the Munich Olympics massacre of 1972. The Palestinian terror group "Black September" would kill most of the members of the Israeli Olympic team, to bring their struggle to the world's attention. Osama bin Laden would renew that effort in 2001.
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Our Fragile Way of Life and Chernobyl's Corium Lava: One of the Deadliest Materials on Earth
On Sept. 1st, 1859, the most powerful solar storm in recorded history engulfed our planet. It was “the Carrington Event,” named after British scientist Richard Carrington, who witnessed the flare that started it. The storm rocked Earth’s magnetic field what if it happened today?