Skillset Magazine Bass Reeves: The Story of the Slave Turned Invincible Marshal By B.C. Sanders No body camera, no radio, no taser and no nice air-conditioned vehicle: with just two Colt .45s, a Winchester rifle,... Read more »
Skillset Magazine The Devil In Baggy Pants: 82nd Airborne’s Maggie Megellas By B.C. Sanders A dead German’s journal described a fierce American airborne enemy capable of striking anywhere and anytime as the “devils in... Read more »
Skillset Magazine William E Fairbairn: The Man Who Shaped Hand-to-Hand Combat in WW2 By B.C. Sanders The “House of Horrors” from William E Fairbairn was something special. Smoke fills the doorway as the recruit, armed with... Read more »
Skillset Magazine Churchill Club: The 8 Teens Who Sabotaged the Nazis in WWII By B.C. Sanders With the sun suddenly blocked by German airplanes and the streets teaming with trucks and troops, Denmark peacefully submitted to... Read more »
Skillset Magazine 761st Tank Battalion: The Panzer-Punishing Black Panthers of WWII By B.C. Sanders With shrapnel shredding skin, bullets breaking bones and trenches trapping tanks, the 761st fought furiously for their first days in... Read more »
Skillset Magazine Tunnel Rats: The Underground Grunts of the Vietnam War By B.C. Sanders While infantry companies were lobbing mortars, laying down suppressive fire and maneuvering with H-harnesses, helmets, rifles and rucks, the T-shirt-wearing,... Read more »
Skillset Magazine From Eye Doctor To Case Solver: Ira Cooper, St. Louis’ Cerebral Crimefighter By B.C. Sanders Newspaper articles from decades ago sporadically documented the major cases of police Lt. Ira Luther Cooper, the first African American... Read more »
Skillset Magazine Texas Ranger Frank Hamer: Lone Star’s Lethal Lawman By B.C. Sanders In an era where lawmen used fist, feet and firearms to capture fugitives, Frank Hamer reigned supreme for four decades... Read more »
Skillset Magazine The Legend of Virginia Hall: The Most Dangerous Allied Spy in France By B.C. Sanders Virginia Hall was the first Allied spy to operate in occupied France. She was trained in the art of silencing... Read more »
Skillset Magazine How the Filthy Thirteen Became WWII's Legendary Combat Paratroopers By B.C. Sanders Thirty-six years before Joe Strummer of The Clash sported a mohawk with his band of rebels and waged musical war... Read more »
