When it comes to the myths of Thanksgiving, they are plentiful, yet not nearly as interesting as the facts behind the first gathering.

Due to their inexperience many airborne troops including those of Fox Company loaded themselves up too much for their jump into Normandy on D-Day.

Eugene Sledge recounts in his diary how he and his fellow soldiers were being trained in subhuman slaughter before their landing at hellish Peleliu.

Unaware that the NVA was about to launch a new offensive around Dai Do a group of 250 Marines launch their attack against what would be 10,000 NVA.

As part of their effort to put down the Iraqi insurgency in Fallujah, in some of the heaviest urban combat since Hue, Marines had to cross the very wide and perilous Highway 10 to reach a key objective.

With only 79 men Charlie company finds itself in a precarious position surrounded by a vastly superior NVA force in the dense jungle in Vietnam.

The only thing holding up Hitler's plan to divide and send General Patton's 3rd Army back to the sea was a group of 150 National Guardsmen occupying the crucially important Hill 314 in the village of Mortain, France.

Canadian George Beurling broke every rule in the book yet became one of the greatest fighter pilots of World War II. A loner and a social misfit, Beurling's disdain for protocol branded him an outcast.

During one of the final battles over Malta, George Beurling might have been in his last dog fight.

Despite engine failure and no radio from being shot up over Berlin the crew of this Lancaster bomber defy the odds and make it back home to England.

Through personal accounts and real footage members of crews from British Lancaster bombers describe their payloads and what it was like to come under heavy fire while dropping bombs over Germany.

Only a few years earlier some questioned whether or not they could fly a fighter, but by 1944 the Tuskegee Airmen were providing protection for crucial long distance bombing missions against targets in Nazi Germany.

Tuskegee Airman Alex Jefferson has to bail out over enemy territory and his flight companions assume he is KIA.

The 56th Fighter Group based in England already had a trio of aces, and competition was fierce to get the highest kill count.

Ten weeks after joining the 61st Squadron Gabby Gabreski gets his first taste of combat over Holland.

A wealth of information via social media amid the Mumbai attacks only adds confusion to a chaotic situation, particularly within the ranks of the Indian government.