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47 days of torture, back broken during interrogationIn 1991 during an escort mission for EA-6B Wild Weasels, Lt. Larry Slade and his F-14 pilot were struck by a SA-2 surface to air missile. Their plane nearly destroyed, they ejected and...

American Greatness from small beginningsIconic vehicles that changed the world  Everyone knows the F-14 Tomcat. A badass fighter in movies and a deadly missile platform that amazed audiences worldwide and rightly so. But its story begins with Leroy Grumman born...

Killed more outlaws than Doc Holiday, Wyaat Earp, Tom Horn and Bat Masterson combined. An early disciple and bodyguard of Joseph Smith (see Latter Day Saints), Rockwell became possibly the fiercest lawman to ever walk west of the Mississippi. Joseph Smith...

Proof one man can make a difference During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, US navy destroyers cornered a Russian sub around Cuba. Dropping signaling depth charges, they tried to force the sub to the surface. Not knowing if a...

SAS raider, destroyed over 100 enemy aircraft single handed Paddy Mayne was a one man wrecking crew. A former rugby player born in Northern Ireland to wealthy parents, he was recruited to the Commandos at the beginning of WW2. He...

Spy, Frontiers-woman, Crack Shot, Cold Killer When a squad of Tory’s (British Infantry) came to Nancy Hart’s house on the Georgia frontier looking for an escaped Whig, they found death. Demanding to be fed, killing some of her livestock for...