
The smell hits the intake officer before he even sees her face. Infection, old blood, and something worse underneath. The prisoner stumbles forward in a…

How a U.S. Sniper’s “Dead Body” Disguise Let Him Take Down 68 Germans in 3 Days December 18th, 1944. The Hurdan forest along the German…

In the frozen winter of 1942, the Atlantic seemed like a liquid graveyard. Black waves crashed beneath gray skies, swallowing the wreckage of yet another…

The German officer stood over the wreckage, pistol drawn, watching the American pilot crawl from the shattered fuselage. The pilot was bleeding. His aircraft was…

Spring 1941, North Atlantic. A British destroyer races through Blackwater, hunting a submarine that’s stalking a convoy of merchant ships carrying food, fuel, and ammunition…

November 13, 1942. Truck Lagoon, Caroline Islands. The submarine hung motionless in the black water, 90 ft beneath the surface. Inside USS Wahoo, 82 men…

December 1943. Truck Lagoon, Caroline Islands. The submarine sat motionless at periscope depth 40 ft beneath the surface. Inside USS Harter, 79 men held their…

It is 27th May 1941 and the Atlantic Ocean churns beneath a sky the color of wet slate. Aboard HMS Ark Royal somewhere west of…

15th of September 1943, a Belgian railway sighting three kilometers east of Neore. The night freight to Germany sits motionless under a moonless sky. 47…

24th of July, 1943, 24,000 ft above the North Sea, Flight Lieutenant James Marx grips the stopwatch in his gloved hand, watching the seconds tick…





