by Bob | Dec 23, 2020 | Hidden History
Honor Code “A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.” This is one of the first things imprinted on New Cadets when they arrive at West Point for Beast Barracks. Along with such tantalizing bits as “How’s the cow?” and “How many gallons in Lusk...
by Bob | Dec 7, 2020 | Hidden History
Pearl Harbor This is excerpted from The Green Beret Guide to Seven Great Disasters II which is free today, 7 December. “Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it would not be enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii...
by Bob | Nov 2, 2020 | Hidden History
Reuben James I’d never heard of the Reuben James even though Woody Guthrie wrote a song about it. Here is what happened: Five Weeks Before Pearl Harbor; An American Warship Was Torpedoed from Bob...
by Bob | Oct 28, 2020 | Hidden History
In 1929, the 29th of October is the day the Great Depression officially began. The stock market had been going down, but this was the day of the crash that didn’t rebound. The bubble burst and it would take over a decade for the world’s economy to recover...
by Bob | Aug 26, 2020 | Hidden History
Sounds like a reverse Man in the High Castle. I had never really considered it until I saw a book in the Fort Campbell library some years ago titled Japan’s Secret War: How Japan’s Race to Build its Own Atomic Bomb Provided the Groundwork for North...
by Bob | Feb 18, 2020 | Hidden History
It seems like a headline from a current newspaper but this was 1969. And one of those was the commander of the Fifth Special Forces Group (Airborne) who would later become the template for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. While running technically illegal cross-border...
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