BattleCast
The Waffen-SS Laughed at American Recruits — Until They Liberated France in 11 Months
How One Welder's Absurd Rivet Sequence Made Liberty Ships Survive North Atlantic in 3-Day Storms
Germans Never Knew B-29s Could Reach Tokyo — Until Americans Built Bases on Useless Islands
How a Metalworker's 'Illegal' Copper Cone Made Bazookas Penetrate 4 Inches Instead of 2
Captured Japanese Soldier Had Gangrene — American Surgeon Used Penicillin, Saved Leg in 5 Days
Germans Studied Captured Jeep — Then Admitted No Vehicle Carried 800 Pounds Across Mud That Deep
How One Navigator's RIDICULOUS Star Chart Error Saved His Squadron From 80 Flak Batteries
German Recon Commander Called .30 Cal ‘Harmless’ — Lost 19 Halftracks That Afternoon
When 50 BF-109s Swarmed His Formation — This B-17 Pilot's FORBIDDEN Dive Destroyed 4 Pursuers
The Secret Radar Fuse That Detonated 90mm Shells 70 Feet From Target — Luftwaffe Lost 752 Planes
German Tankers Called Sherman Ronson — Until US Welded Wet Ammo Racks and Survival Hit 89%
Japanese Spies Counted 4 US Carriers — Then 141 More Appeared in 18 Months
Italian Engineer Captured US Jeep — Found 60 Pound Engine Outpulled Their 1,200 Pound Truck
Germans Thought MG42 Would Shred GIs — Then 30 Cal Brownings Buried 6 Divisions in 9 Days
How One Mechanic's Forbidden Coolant Mix Made P 51s Fly 2,000 Miles Without Refueling
Japanese Officers Tested Captured Sherman — Realized 75mm Gun Reloaded in 4 Seconds vs Their 12
German Engineers Examined M1 Garand — Discovered 8-Round Clips Fired 3X Faster Than Kar98k
Japanese Never Expected America's Defective VT Fuze Destroyed 70% of Kamikazes
Why 450 Marines Let Japanese Land Behind Them — And Killed 2,900 in One Week
How One Machinist's "Impossible" Barrel Rifling Made M1 Garands Accurate at 800 Yards
Why U.S. Bomber Crews Started "Wasting" Ammo — And Hit 3x More Fighters
Japanese Thought 90 Wildcats Were Trapped — Then Lost 1,400 Pilots in 72 Hours
How Mustang Pilots' 'Porpoising' Dive Broke Every Fw 190's Six O'Clock Attack in Seconds
German Tankers Called It 'The Jumbo Trick' — Then 76mm Guns Pierced
Japanese Aces Never Expected Thach Weave To Turn Their Numerical Advantage Into a Death Trap
US Engineers Examined Destroyed Jagdpanther — Found Out Its Transmission Failed After 100km
Japanese Called B-29 "Impossible" — Then It Dropped 147,000 Tons Of Bombs From 30,000 Feet
Japanese Aces Engaged Hellcat Head-On — Never Called F6Fs 'Easy Targets' Again
How One Chemist's "Reckless" Rubber Formula Made Jeep Tires Last 12,000 Miles in Jungle
Wehrmacht Tested a Captured Bazooka — Admitted Germany Had Nothing Like Its 120mm Penetration