Lt. Gen. Valin, Chief of Staff, French Air Force, awards the Croix De Guerre with Palm to Col. Jimmy Stewart for exceptional services in the liberation. (U.S. Air Force photo) On March 22, 1941, Jimmy Stewart was drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces. He was assigned to the Army Air …
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Army SPC Dwight Birdwell Via Cherokee Phoenix Bob,Remember the article I wrote a while back in SOF about Dwight Birdwell and his actions as a tank commander during the relief of Tans Nhut AB during TeT of ’68 wherein he was put in for the MOH by his commanding officer, …
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Barry Sadler and SOF ABOVE VIDEO Jimmy Dean talks with Sgt Barry Sadler about his tour in Vietnam, and how he feels about the Draft Dodgers. Then Barry sings SOF: Barry Sadler was an enlisted man and a Green Beret. He was a special forces medic while In Vietnam …
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Chapter 28 Retaking the Koidu Diamond Fields By Eeben Barlow Anyone planning to fight a successful armed anti-government or terrorist campaign ought to know that one of the primary objectives (apart from causing mass enemy casualties and loss of materiel) is the denial of funds to the rebel or terrorist …
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AFLCMC acquires new Air Force handgun By Brian Brackens, Air Force M9 PistolM9 PistolPrimary function: Personal defense. Length: 8.5 in. Weight: 2.55 lbs. (fully-loaded). Caliber: 9 mm NATO. Maximum effective range: 50 meters. WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) — Combat arms units across the Air Force are getting new …
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Timothy McVeigh at WacoMcVeigh was responsible for bombing the Oklahoma City building on April 19, 1995. On the morning of April 19, 1995, two men committed an unthinkable act of terror against their own country, detonating a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. That bomb killed 168 people, including 19 …
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“Those rough and tumble SOF ‘bad boys’ respected me as a peer, and judged me entirely on my ability to get the story.” – SKK As our readers well know, the people who write for Soldier of Fortune are a special breed of journalist. They don’t just sit around an …
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Paratrooper: Following in my Father’s Footsteps By Heath Hansen, a second generation paratrooper and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. I looked up into the big, blue sky. Far in the distance, I spotted a C-130 Hercules headed towards the open grass field I waited in. For a few moments, …
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Lieutenant Henry Harboard (Harry) ‘The Breaker’ Morant Australian War Memorial’s Side of the Story: Better known for the manner of his death before a firing squad than what he did in life, Harry Morant is believed to have been born on 9 December 1864 at Somerset in England. Much of …
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GRENADA ONE WE WON! by Robert K. Brown and Dr. Vann Spencer, from I am Soldier of Fortune SOF covers America’s victory and scores intelligence coup in Caribbean The United States invaded Grenada in 1983. “Pack up, we are going to war,” I told my then Managing Editor Jim Graves. …
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