
The sky over Nazi occupied Europe was a graveyard dart every morning. American bomber formations. Hundreds of B7s and B24s crossed the English Channel like…

At a.m. on August 1st, 1943, Lieutenant Colonel Addison Baker and Major John Gerstad climbed into B24 Liberator Hell’s Wench at Benghazi airfield in Libya…

Pilot Ejected Over Enemy Territory. Landed in a Stadium. 50,000 Germans Started Clapping Imagine parachuting into enemy territory in the middle of a packed stadium…

A bomber flying with its tail practically torn off, connected only by a few wires and pieces of metal. 10 men who should have been…

Deep in the New Guinea jungle, 1943, a mangled P38 Lightning lay upside down in a swamp. The pilot had escaped, but the aircraft was…

In the freezing twilight of late December 1944, a terrifying reality dawned on Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery. The relief of…

December 14th, 1944. Sixth Panzer Army headquarters near Bad Noanar. Sept Dietrich stands over a map that offers no mercy. He is 52 years old.…

September 18th, 1944. General Hassan Montufil stood in his command post near the German border, studying a map that for the first time in months…

March 15th, 1944, 943 hours, 28,000 ft above central Germany. Second Lieutenant Charles Coral, age 19, was alone. His wingman had aborted with engine trouble…

When people talk about the P-51 Mustang, they usually talk about how it saved the bombing campaign and won the air war over Europe. And…


