
March 15, 1944, 20,000 feet above Berlin, the Faka Wolf 190 pilot from Hamburg saw the American fighter approaching and actually smiled. Another one of…

March 15, 1944, 25,000 ft above Berlin, the Messersmid pilot from Bavaria couldn’t stop laughing. Through his canopy, he watched the American P-51 Mustang trying…

March 7th, 1944, 12,000 ft above Brandenburg, Oberloitant Wilhelm Huffman of Yagashwatter, 11 spotted the incoming bomber stream. 400 B7s stretched across the horizon like…

A single gladiator biplane circles above the Libyan desert. The cockpit is open. The wind screams. Below 14 Italian fighters climb toward him in formation.…

March 4, 1944. 423B7 flying fortresses return from Berlin. The deepest American daylight penetration into the Reich. Over 1,000 mi round trip. Command expects them…

He never fired a gun in anger, never claimed a kill, never chased glory through the smoke of a dog fight. Yet by the winter…

February 1945, Northern Italy. A single P47 Thunderbolt drops to 60 ft above frozen ground. Canopy close enough to catch the spray of snow kicked…

The morning of July 2008, 1944 dawns over Seram Island in the Dutch East Indies. Colonel Charles Macdonald leads his P38 Lightning formation through hostile…

May 1943, over the skies of northern France, General Duryagfleer Adolf Galand pushed his Messid BF 109 into a climbing turn, tracking what should have…

April 1944, Berlin. General Litnand Adolf Galland stands before the German Air Ministry holding a report that no one wants to read. Between January and…


