STORIES
Real combat stories across the ages — continued. Page 2 • 33 STORIES
Shots Fired in Anger — The Mail-Order Sniper
2Lt John George — 132nd Infantry, Americal Division
Jan 1943 • Guadalcanal — 11 snipers killed in 4 days
Manila John — The Machine Gunner Who Held the Line
GySgt John Basilone — 1st Bn, 7th Marines
Oct 24-25, 1942 • Guadalcanal / Feb 19, 1945 • Iwo Jima (KIA)
The Stand at Holtzwihr: Murphy's Impossible Hour
Lieutenant Audie Murphy — 15th Infantry
Jan 26, 1945 • Holtzwihr, France
The Last Stand of Joe Sadowski
Sgt Joe Sadowski — 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored
Sep 14, 1944 • Valhey, France
Cobra King: The Tank That Broke the Siege
Lt Boggess & LtCol Abrams — 37th Tank Bn, 4th Armored
Dec 26, 1944 • Bastogne, Belgium
The Mortar Man of Burnon
TSgt Roscoe V. Albertson — CCB, 4th Armored Division
Dec 22, 1944 • Burnon, Belgium
Death's Deception on Christmas Day
Pfc Roscoe Putnam — 318th Infantry Regiment
Dec 25, 1944 • Chaumont, Belgium
The Eyes of Patton
Pvt John DiBattista — 25th Cavalry Recon, 4th Armored
Dec 22, 1944 • Burnon, Belgium
The Christmas Tanker of Chaumont
Pvt Bruce Fenchel — 8th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored
Dec 22-25, 1944 • Chaumont, Belgium
Hacksaw Ridge — Desmond Doss
Refused to Carry a Weapon — Saved 75 Men
May 1945 • Okinawa • Conscientious Objector
Crossing the Alps — Hannibal Barca
37 War Elephants Over the Alps — 218 BC
218 BC • Lost 20,000 Men Crossing • Defeated Rome for 15 Years
The Fire of Boudicca — Queen of the Iceni
Burned London to the Ground — 80,000 Romans Killed
60-61 AD • 100,000 Celtic Warriors • Never Captured
90 Minutes at Entebbe — Operation Thunderbolt
2,500 Miles — 102 Hostages Rescued
July 4, 1976 • Yonatan Netanyahu KIA
The Siege of Jadotville — The Forgotten Heroes
155 Irish vs 3,000 — Zero KIA — Denied Honor for 55 Years
Sep 1961 • Congo • Finally Honored 2016
The Wrath of Khan — Khwarezmia Erased
They Killed His Ambassadors — He Killed Their Empire
1219–1221 • 1-2 Million Dead • Empire Annihilated
Night Witches
Soviet Women Bomber Pilots
Po-2 Biplanes • Whisper Raids • 1942-1945
The Great Escape
76 Men Out. 50 Murdered.
POW Tunnels • Forged Papers • WWII Germany
The Dam Busters Raid
Bouncing Bombs at Midnight
RAF • May 1943 • Ruhr Valley
Battle Off Samar
Destroyers vs. Battleships
Leyte Gulf • Impossible Odds • US Navy
The White Death
Simo Häyhä
Finland • Iron Sights • Snow Ghost
Eugene Sledge at Peleliu
Hell in the Pacific
USMC • Coral Ridges • No Glory
Vasily Zaitsev
Sniper in the Ruins
Red Army • Urban Hell • Legend
Lafayette G. Pool
America's Deadliest Tank Commander
3rd Armored • Sherman • France 1944
Witold Pilecki
The Man Who Volunteered
Polish Underground • Intelligence • Escape
Chosin Reservoir Breakout
Frozen Hell
Korea • -35°F • Surrounded
Virginia Hall
The spy the Gestapo could not catch
Wooden Leg • Resistance Networks • WWII
Operation Mincemeat
A corpse, a briefcase, and the road to Sicily
British Intelligence • Strategic Deception • WWII
Garbo
The man who invented an army of spies
Juan Pujol García • Fortitude • WWII