Tag: dark docs
The Brown Water Strategy
James E. Williams knew that time was running out for him and his team. Their two patrol boats had been ambushed by more than 50 Viet Cong sampans at the Meko...
The First Concorde Crash was Soviet
The aggressive take-off profile of the Soviet TU-144 supersonic passenger airplane (right) vs. the French-British Concorde (left).At its peak, the Anglo-French Concorde was the epitome of technological prowess and super sleek design in 20th-century aviati...
Elite SS Paratroopers - Operation Rösselsprung
In the early hours of May 25, 1944, hundreds of Waffen-SS paratroopers dropped into Josip Broz Tito’s headquarters with the support of Luftwaffe airstrikes. ...
The Battleship Buried Inside a Mountain When the Russians discovered how vulnerable their territories in the Pacific were after the Russo-Japanese war
When the Russians discovered how vulnerable their territories in the Pacific were after the Russo-Japanese war of the early 20th century, they decided to fortify their strongholds. To protect the city of Vladivostok in Eastern Russia, the Soviet Navy had...
