Three prisoners successfully execute their plan to escape when they vanish after going into the showers, as one of them steals a gun and a car to avoid capture.
A 23-year-old Florida drug dealer murders his girlfriend and flees to Mexico but a newly developed romance with a friend's mother proves to be his undoing.
The U.S. had to test whether the Japanese-held islands of the Pacific Ocean could be captured, and the testing ground would be heavily fortified Tarawa.
Three understrength United States Marine battalions, consisting of fewer than 2,500 men, lay attack and soundly defeat enemy troops at Hue, South Vietnam.
The battle between the First Marine Division and the Japanese at Peleliu, a ferocious struggle which cost 10,000 American lives but broke the back of the enemy.
In Korea, 17,000 United States Marines cross over the 38th Parallel to cut off the forces of Kim Sung, and are outnumbered seven-to-one by Chinese troops.
An accounting of the rules that were bent and broken pertaining to the Civil War, the CIA, the American Civil Rights movement, and the advent of flight.
Classified operations of World War II, including covert units, unbreakable codes, underground operation centers, and super-human Navy SEALS, are studied.
Exploring the lesser-known side of American history in the Star Spangled Banner, Statue of Liberty, Monopoly board game and pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart.
In the Cold War, U.S. military buried nukes near the USSR and had a double agent, weaponized weather in the Vietnam War, and used magic and inflated WW2 tanks.
Viewed are fallout shelters in World War II as refuge in the firebombings of Tokyo and the D-Day invasion, and the war's best kept secrets are revealed.
Overlooked facts on how Parks wasn't the first black woman to keep her bus seat, the Berlin Airlift had candy for kids, and a moonshiner made a war rifle.
The stories behind some of the biggest deceptions, the most classified secrets, and the covert weapons utilized to help defy the Nazis in World War II.
Overlooked facts on how Parks wasn't the first black woman to keep her bus seat, the Berlin Airlift had candy for kids, and a moonshiner made a war rifle.
The stories behind some of the biggest deceptions, the most classified secrets, and the covert weapons utilized to help defy the Nazis in World War II.
In the Cold War, U.S. military buried nukes near the USSR and had a double agent, weaponized weather in the Vietnam War, and used magic and inflated WW2 tanks.
Viewed are fallout shelters in World War II as refuge in the firebombings of Tokyo and the D-Day invasion, and the war's best kept secrets are revealed.