The War That Changed Us
Japanese Navy Expected 100 PT Boats — Then 531 Mosquito Craft Hunted Every Transport to Death
Japanese Thought Night Attacks Were Their Advantage — Until Marines Killed 4,300 in Darkness
Japanese Never Knew American Torpedoes Finally Worked — Lost 201 Ships In 90 Days After Fix
Japanese Pilots Heard 8 .50-Cals Firing — Then Realized Hellcats Were 'Flying Fortresses'
Why Bomber Pilots Started Flying 'At Treetop Level' — And Destroyed 47 U-Boats In 8 Months
Why B-29 Crews Started Bombing 'From 32,000 Feet' — And Japanese Zeros Couldn't Reach Them
Japanese Hated Fighting Corsair F4Us More Than Hellcats — 2,140 Kills In 64 Days Shocked Them
Why Paratroopers Started Jumping 'At 300 Feet' — And Germans Couldn't Shoot Them Before Landing
Japanese Never Imagined Fletcher Destroyers' 5-Inch Guns Would Sink 18 Subs In 6 Months
Why Tank Crews Started Welding 'Sandbags' On Shermans — And Survived 75mm Hits At Point Blank
Germans Never Imagined American Proximity Fuses Would Detonate Shells 70 Feet Above Panzers
How One Gunner's 'Illegal' Cooling Rig Let Him Fire Continuously While Others Reloaded
German Fighter Pilots Saw .50 Cal Tracer Convergence — Then Broke Off Before Entering Kill Zone
How One Pilot Shot Down 9 Zeros in Single Day — Japanese Never Underestimated Hellcat Again
Wehrmacht Signals Intercepted US Coordination — Then Realized 10,000 Vehicles Moved Like One Unit
German Artillery Tested Captured 105mm Howitzer — Then Admitted Its 12-Mile Range Was Impossible
German Pilots Flew Captured P-47D — Then Radioed 'Do Not Engage Thunderbolts In Head-On Attacks'
How One Pilot's "Reckless" Dive Tactic Made P-47s Hit Targets 3x More Accurately
German Engineers Drove a Captured Sherman — Realized It Had 5x Their Spare Parts Supply
Why U.S. Tankers Let Panzers Get Within 50 Yards — And Destroyed 23 Tigers in One Day
Japan Never Knew Fletcher DDs Fired 10 Torpedoes Per Salvo — Lost 23 Cruisers in 90 Days
German U-Boats Laughed at Avengers — Until 8×Rockets + Mk 24 Torpedoes Sank 47 in 60 Days
Why The P-38's Twin Engines Obliterated 90% Of Yamamoto's Escort Fighters
German Engineers Captured A B-29—Then Conceded They'd Never Matched Its Range
How One Mechanic's 'Wrong Bolt' Saved 600 Airmen From Exploding Mid-Air
Why Submarine Captains Started Surfacing 'During Attacks' — And Sank Destroyers With Deck Guns
German Engineers Tested A Captured Norden Bombsight — Then Admitted They Were 5 Years Behind
Japanese Admirals Never Expected 3,000 Landing Craft To Appear At Okinawa In 72 Hours
SS Officers Examined Captured M1 Garands — Then Understood Why GIs Fired 8X Faster Than Wehrmacht