At 6:12 p.m. on June 7, 2006, a 500-pound, laser-guided GBU-12 bomb was released from a U.S. Air Force F-16 over a box-like two-story house near the town of Hibhib …
On Feb. 8, 1943, 3,000 British, Gurkha, and Burmese troops – organized into seven columns of approximately 400 men each – crossed the border of India and entered the rugged …
“We didn’t think about whether it was dangerous or not. . . . You concentrated on the job and not on the risks.”
—Lt. Joachim Rønneberg, leader of Operation Gunnerside…
Special Forces – the Green Berets – whose motto is De oppresso liber (“To liberate the oppressed”) take pride in accomplishing their missions well and without fanfare; thus their nickname …
“Truth is the best PSYOP.” — Col. Fred W. Walker, USAF, Director of Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs, USSOCOM
Activated on Nov. 7, 1967, the 4th Military Information Support Group …
“Get the sheep away from the bridge, the British are going to blow it up tonight!”
—Elderly villager warning sheepherders at the base of the Gorgopotamus viaduct
Supplies for Axis …
“… I have always felt uneasy in being known as the founder of the [SAS] Regiment. …”
–Sir David Stirling, June 30, 1984
The Time: The night of Nov. 16-17, …
“It was a brilliant operation and with great audacity.”
—Lt. Gen. Erwin Rommel, Afrika Korps commander
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was never one to shy away from thinking big. …
Japan was in an increasingly desperate situation as World War II in the Pacific theater entered the climactic years of 1945. On Feb. 19, the Marines landed on Iwo Jima …
“In summary, we have here [in the Soviet Union] a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with [the] U.S. there can be no permanent modus vivendi, that it …
