by Bob | Feb 1, 2020 | Books, Movies and TV shows
That’s the way I pitched Nightstalkers. First three books only .99 all of February. When I was flying around with my team in black helicopters, we wondered who the other guys flying around in them were? Nightstalkers are the elite Special Ops unit that take care...
by Bob | Jan 3, 2020 | Hidden History
First interesting piece of trivia: William Tecumseh Sherman was the first president of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, which eventually became LSU. In 1860, with war clouds on the horizon, he wrote a letter to a fellow professor where he...
by Bob | Dec 14, 2019 | Hidden History
And it wasn’t the Caine. I went to the Military Academy, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1802. Although Jefferson tended to be anti-military, he accepted the need for a standing army. And if the nation was going to have one, he felt it should be officered by a...
by Bob | Dec 7, 2019 | Hidden History
Most disasters require 7 things to go wrong; my rule of 7. Whether it be a plane crash or a military disaster. Pearl Harbor was no different. It wasn’t one or two or even six things that went wrong: it was seven. Free today through 9 December is Stuff...
by Bob | Dec 5, 2019 | Hidden History
It began as nothing more than a routine training flight. At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a Naval Air Station in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The planes—collectively known as “Flight 19”—were scheduled to tackle a three-hour...
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