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11/09/2026

He Outflew His Own Instructor on His First Check Ride.
This is the true story of Bob Hoover — a fighter pilot who stole an enemy aircraft to escape a POW camp, then spent the rest of his life as one of the most celebrated pilots in aviation history.

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UntoldHistory

09/09/2026

This is the true story of Stanley Hollis — a lorry driver from Middlesbrough who cleared two German pillboxes alone, then went back into open fire to save two of his own men.

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History TrueStory

09/09/2026

This is the true story of Ira Hayes — one of the six men in the most famous photograph of World War II, who never wanted the fame it brought him.

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TrueStory NativeAmericanHistory

07/09/2026

This is the true story of Quentin Roosevelt — the youngest son of Theodore Roosevelt, who scored his only confirmed kill just days before the war took him too.
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TrueStory UntoldHistory

02/09/2026

This is the true story of the Battle of Castle Itter — the only known battle where American and German soldiers fought as allies, defending two former French Prime Ministers who hadn’t spoken to each other in years.

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Germany France

31/08/2026

This is the true story of Gino Merli — a young American soldier who held his position alone against a German attack, refusing to surrender even after being wounded and surrounded, until he made a decision that would cost him almost everything.

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30/08/2026

This is the true story of Francis Currey — the soldier his own officers once called too immature for a commission, weeks before he broke a German armored assault almost single-handedly at Malmedy.

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History TrueStory

29/08/2026

This is the true story of Charles Berry — a truck driver from Ohio who caught live grenades in a foxhole and threw them back, until one landed with no time left to return it.

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History TrueStory

28/08/2026

This is the true story of Stanley Bender — a 35-year-old staff sergeant who walked calmly through machine-gun fire and exploding grenades to save the men behind him.

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TrueStory

27/08/2026

This is the true story of Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler, a crippled American bomber, the German ace who chose not to shoot it down, and the friendship that neither man expected to last the rest of their lives.

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