
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…

March 12th, 1944, 20,000 ft above Germany, the Iowa farm boy watched his engine temperature gauge climb past the red line and knew he had…

October 14th, 1944. Petro Pavlovskhatsky, Soviet Union. The American ferry pilot from Minnesota stood on the frozen tarmac, watching his breath cloud in the minus…

April 15th, 1944, 30,000 ft above Germany. The Messers pilot from Munich saw them first. Silver dots catching sunlight like scattered coins across the blue.…

March 14th, 1943. Rabal, New Britain. The Japanese pilot from Nagoya laughed when he spotted the American bomber through his canopy glass. Another A20 Havoc…

March 14th, 1943. Rabal, New Britain. The Japanese pilot from Nagoya laughed when he spotted the American bomber through his canopy glass. Another A20 Havoc…

March 14th, 1944, 20,000 feet above Bremen, the Faka Wolf 190 pilot from Munich spotted the American fighter formation and smiled. Those big fat Hellcats…

1943 Supermarine Aviation Works Southampton. The Rolls-Royce Griffin engine had just transformed the legendary Spitfire into an uncontrollable beast. Nearly 2,000 horsepower of raw fury…

Six Japanese fighters circle above. A lone Allied bomber limps through the sky, wings torn, one engine trailing smoke. The crew expects the kill shot…

May 1943, North Africa. A Yunker’s Jew 87. Stooka screams toward the deck at 78 degrees. Every manual says 60 is maximum. Every instructor warned…


