
September 20th, 1941, 23,000 ft above the Bisque coast of France, squadron leader Rupert Clark’s hands rested steady on the control column of his dehavlin…

September 20th, 1941, 23,000 ft above the Bisque coast of France, squadron leader Rupert Clark’s hands rested steady on the control column of his dehavlin…

December 1944. The sky over Germany belongs to the Predators. A lone American P-51 pulls away from formation, trailing smoke. Four Mesa circle like wolves.…

The radio crackles. 22 German fighters circle above. One Spitfire below. No backup. No escape. The pilot banks hard. Fuel gauge dropping. Ammunition nearly spent.…

A P-51 Mustang screams past a fogwolf inverted bleeding speed in a way that violates every combat manual ever written. The German pilot expects the…

The morning of August 17th, 1943. Boram airfield, New Guinea. 400 miles northwest of Allied positions. The tropical sun had just broken the horizon when…

At 0700 on October 4th, 1943, Colonel Hubert Zmpy stood on the hard stand at RAF Hailworth watching mechanics fuel 52 Republic P47 Thunderbolts for…

March 8th, 1944, 14,000 ft above Brunswick, Germany, 145 hours. Overlordant Wilhelm Hoffman watched the massive American fighter approaching through his gunsite. The thing looked…

June 1944. The skies over Italy are a graveyard for the inexperienced. The 15th Air Force is bleeding. Every day, bombers lift off from dusty…

By mid 1943, Japanese naval aviators flying the Mitsubishi, a 6M0, believed they possessed the most formidable fighter aircraft in the Pacific. For 2 years,…


