USS Indianapolis. The tale of the loss of an American capital ship and the Captain who got the blame for top level US Naval blundering. Isn't this always the case though. Find a scapegoat and throw the blame away from the culprit!

The American invasion plans for Japan. In the event that the US would actually have had to invade the Japanese mainland. The dropping of the Atomic bombs clearly showed that millions of lives, on both sides, were saved by this seemingly catastrophic event.

Exercise Tiger. Ex Tiger was a little known, highly secret disaster in its day, an exercise preceding D Day. April 1944 and 749 US soldiers lost their lives to 9 German E boats. Could it have been avoided? Did the US High Command make an almighty mess? A massive cover up ensued and lies told to relatives. Soldiers were told keep it shut - or be shot!