Coffee or Die Magazine

Aug 29, 2023 | coffeeordie.com | Matt Fratus

Keyword Search... Allied intelligence agencies partnered with the US Playing Card Company to produce escape maps designed as Bicycle-branded cards. Photo courtesy of the Bicycle Card Company. More than 120,000 American troops were captured by enemy forces during World War II. Approximately three-quarters of them were interned in dozens of prisoner of war camps located throughout Nazi-controlled Europe.

Aug 21, 2023 | coffeeordie.com | Matt Fratus

Keyword Search... The T-13 hand grenade developed by the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, left, next to a Major League Baseball, right. Composite by Matt Fratus/Coffee or Die. The United States military entered World War I in the spring of 1917. It quickly became clear that American doughboys were ill-equipped for fighting in the trenches of Europe. One crucial tool they lacked was a grenade that could be thrown far, fast, and accurately.

Aug 10, 2023 | coffeeordie.com | Mac Caltrider

Jonny Kim in a high-altitude pressure suit worn in the WB-57 aircraft, which is capable of flying at altitudes over 60,000 feet. Photo by Norah Moran, courtesy of NASA/Wikimedia Commons. If there really were an award for the Most Interesting Man in the World, 39-year-old Jonny Kim would be a top contender. He’s a Navy SEAL, a medical doctor, an aviator, and a NASA astronaut. His successes are even more remarkable for all the obstacles he had to overcome to achieve them.

Jun 20, 2023 | coffeeordie.com | Mac Caltrider

On Aug. 19, 1942, 50 United States Army Rangers — a strike force of specially trained infantrymen — joined a Canadian-led amphibious assault on the Nazi-occupied French coastal town of Dieppe. The hope was that the operation, if successful, would boost troop morale and also show the Soviet Union that its Western allies were serious about fighting the Germans. Suffice it to say that the operation was a disaster. The invasion force never made it beyond the beach. Nearly 4,000 Allied troops were killed.

Jun 14, 2023 | coffeeordie.com | Mac Caltrider

Keyword Search... Keyword Search... Marines attending the Marine Corps Instructor of Water Survival course wear UDT shorts, June 19, 2015. US Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Lillian Stephens. Ensign Lewis Luehrs and Chief Petty Officer Bill Acheson, clad in P-42 Frogskin combat fatigues and armed with nothing except sketch pads, approached the island of Kwajalein in a small rubber boat. As they crept closer to the beach, outcroppings of sharp coral began to appear all around them.