The Korean War Week 86: Koje-do: A Simmering Cauldron – February 10, 1952
An astonishing accusation about chemical weapons by Soviet diplomat Yakov Malik dominates headlines this week, as the POW issue continues to plague ceasefire negotiations. But those are far from the…
The Korean War Week 85: Futilely Pounding North Korea? – February 3, 1952
The UN forces are by now having trouble just keeping their planes in the skies, thanks to shortages of spare parts, so for long can they maintain aerial supremacy over…
The Korean War Week 84: Inside Truman’s Diary – January 27, 1952
Things heat up in the Panmunjom Peace Talks, which each side arguing that the other side’s proposals violate the Geneva Convention, but by the end of the week they talks…
WW 2 Rat Bombs
During World War II, Britain’s Special Operations Executive came up with one of the strangest sabotage ideas of the war: the “explosive rat.” Dead rats were stuffed with plastic explosive…
The Vietnam Liberator Pistol
What most people don’t know is there was a version cooked up for use in Vietnam.
The Korean War Week 83: The Medics’ War! – January 20, 1952
There’s discussion- and disagreement- in UN Command and Washington about whether or not to poll all the POWs the UN side holds to see where they would like to go…
The Korean War Week 82: Operation Strangle Isn’t Strangling! – January 13, 1952
Operation Strangle, to destroy enemy logistical capability with air power, has been in progress for months now, and yet the enemy is still able to bring up men and supplies,…
“Great Song Be River Baptism” of Easter Sunday, 1967
A great story relayed from out friend , Bud Gibson from one of his recent interviews. Courtesy of our guest this morning Curt Jones- Project Sigma B-56 “56 years ago…
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