August 12th, 1970, Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The promoters had expected 10,000 people. 40,000 showed up. Harvard Stadium, the oldest…
There is a song on Pearl that has no vocals. Every other track on the album, the last album Janis…
In March 1971, two songs were on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Me and Bobby McGee by…
September 14th, 1944. 11:22 hours. A Sherman from the 1st Armored Division is crossing a road junction outside Pisa, Italy,…
December 23rd, 1944, near Verdenne, Belgium. Temperature, 12° F, visibility, less than 400 yd through falling snow. A single M36…
On the morning of March 4th, 1944, ground crews at Steeple Morden Airfield in Cambridgeshire were bolting two teardrop-shaped metal…
In the autumn of 1941, a German intelligence officer sat down to write a field report about an enemy unit…
On the 13th of June, 1944, at roughly 4:00 in the morning, a strange pulsing drone rattled across the Kent…
On November 30th, 1939, a Soviet officer named Andrei Zelentsov led his 163rd Rifle Division across the Finnish border in…
On a recon team’s last radio call out of Laos in the spring of 1968, the only words that came…