Elizabeth Taylor At 19: Sophisticated Socialite Role Changed Her Forever. Lost Childhood. August 14th, 1951. Fine Arts Theater, Beverly Hills. A Place in the Sun premieres. Hollywood royalty fills the red carpet. Cameras flash. Reporters shout questions. Elizabeth Taylor arrives in a white gown, elegant, sophisticated, the picture of refined glamour. She’s playing Angela Vickers,…
Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Their Toxic Love Story January 22nd, 1962. Sinakita Studios, Rome. Two of Hollywood’s biggest stars prepare for their first scene together in the most expensive film ever made. Elizabeth Taylor, 30 years old, married to singer Eddie Fischer for 3 years, the world’s highest paid actress, earning a record $1 million…
In January 1968, a Navy corman named Ronald Mosbour was treating a wounded Marine near the DMZ. The Marine had unbuttoned his flack jacket because of the oppressive heat. Within minutes, he was dead from a head wound that the vest couldn’t have stopped anyway. But what Mosbour and thousands of other American servicemen didn’t…
On the 27th of February 1902, as the first gray light crept across the prison yard in Pritoria, two Australian men were marched out in front of a firing squad made up of Scottish Highlanders. They had no blindfolds. They had no lastminute pardon tucked inside a messengers pouch. What they had was a single…
12 British operators consumed nothing but raw river fish, uncooked frogs, and water squeezed from moss for 19 consecutive days. They lost an average of 11 lb each. They completed their mission. The 43 American Marines who attempted the same jungle insertion with full ration packs, water purification tablets, and satellite coordinated resupply were divided…
In 1967, the United States Army sent its newest infantry division into the Mikong Delta. The 9inth Infantry Division would spend the next 2 years fighting in some of the most brutal terrain American soldiers had ever encountered. But the enemy that would disable the most men wasn’t the Vietkong. It wasn’t booby traps. It…
nine men. That’s all there were. Before Spike Team Alabama’s helicopter even touched the ground, their radio operator spotted something through the tree line that made his stomach drop. An NVA regimenal flag. A K47 fire erupted before they were off the skids. One helicopter was shot down seconds after insertion. And then things got…
Somewhere in the desert south of Dubai, inside a military compound that most Australians have never heard of, a small group of soldiers arrived without announcement. No press conference, no parliamentary debate, no public record of the flight that carried them or the orders that sent them. They were members of the Special Air Service…
At 9:17 on the morning of January 22nd, 1943, Second Lieutenant John George crouched in the ruins of a Japanese bunker west of Point Cruz, watching a banyan tree 240 yard away through a scope his fellow officers had laughed at for 6 weeks. 27 years old, Illinois state champion, zero confirmed kills. The Japanese…
The war was over, but the silence hadn’t ended. It was 1978 when war correspondent Daniel Mercer found the folder. He was deep in the Canadian archives researching a book on forgotten Wubby Fu soldiers when he spotted something strange wedged between declassified artillery reports. A thin oil stained file with no formal label, just…
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