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From the sun-scorched fields of rural Texas to the blood-soaked jungles of Vietnam, “From Schoolyard Scrapper to Medal of Honor Recipient: The Roy Benavidez Story” chronicles the extraordinary life of Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez—a man who rose from unimaginable hardship to become one of America’s most legendary heroes. Born in 1935 to a Mexican-American father and Yaqui Indian mother, Roy faced tragedy early: orphaned by age seven, he endured poverty, racial discrimination, and backbreaking migrant labor, dropping out of school at 15 to support his family. Schoolyard brawls ...

During the 1980’s a brutal war had raged between the two leading Columbian crime cartels for control of the cocaine trade into the USA. It was a conflict which saw countless deaths and showed no sign of ending. To break the stalemate, the Cali Cartel knew they would have to smash the Rival Medellin Cartel once and for all, and the only way to do that would be to kill its leader, the notorious Pablo Escobar. In complete secrecy a team of mercenaries were assembled. If they brought the Cali Cartel bosses Escobar’s head they would be given $1,000,000. Thus was set in motion a daring ...

During WW2, St. Nazaire was the most strategically important naval facility in the whole of occupied Europe. It was vital to the Nazi war effort because it was the only place outside Germany where the mighty Tirpitz battleship could be repaired and refitted. Having such a base meant that this most powerful of warships could be unleashed into the North Atlantic to attack the vulnerable allied supply lines and win the war for the Nazis. Central to the drama was the enormous ‘Normandie’ dry dock. If the Germans could make use of the dock to repair and refit Tirpitz, then the whole balance ...