
70,000 Japanese soldiers went into the jungle. They were trained. They were armed. They were ordered to fight to the death. But they never came…

August 6th, 1,945 8:17 a.m. Captain Kenji Nakamura is alone in the sky. His zero hum steady at 15,000 ft. Routine patrol. Eastern sector. Nothing…

March 28th, 1945. The war was supposed to be over. The German army was collapsing. American tanks were driving deep into Bavaria. But when the…

April 16th, 1945, a sunny spring morning in Germany. If you looked at the road leading out of the city of Weimar, you would see…

April 29th, 1945. A Sunday morning. The sky was gray. The air was cold. The soldiers of the US 45th Infantry Division. The Thunderbirds were…

It looked for all the world like a small flashlight or a length of pipe work, 7 in of matte dark metal with a rounded…

1942, a hush hidden workshop somewhere in the English countryside. Around a long bench, British engineers inspected what at first glance looked like ordinary lumps…

Asecret facility hidden in the English countryside. British engineers stood around a workbench covered in lumps of coal. Except these weren’t lumps of coal. They…

1943 Rochester, New York. High fences, guarded entrances. An unmarked industrial building where the neighbors had no idea what was being made inside. Eastman Kodak,…

June 1942, a German sentry stands watch outside an ammunition depot in occupied France. He’s not alone. Standing orders require two guards minimum at all…





