We are the children of heroes.
These are the stories of seven men whose courage, determination skill are so remarkable that it is nearly impossible to credit them as true. But the stories are true. These men were real. These things actually happened.
Writer and series host Bill Whittle peels away the history, the colorless and drab recitation of dates and ev ... Show More
Jul 2021
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Calls for the Bayonet
On July 3, 1863, Union forces easily took up a defensive line along a small rise call Cemetery Ridge in the peaceful Pennsylvania crossroad village called Gettysburg. But the extreme far left of the Union line was, in the parlance of the time, “in the air” — meaning it was not an ... Show More
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Jul 2021
Jimmy Doolittle Releases the Brakes
On the morning of December 8th, 1941, the vaunted US Pacific fleet lay deep in the mud at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Americans were stunned, but this was just the beginning, as the Japanese rampaged throughout the Pacific, seemingly unstoppable. The six aircraft carriers used on ... Show More
1h 9m