
Somewhere over the English Channel in the winter of 1944, a lone American fighter descended through a gap in the clouds. Below, nine German aircraft…

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

Nine German fighters circle below him. His engine is already coughing. His wingmen are scattered or dead. Standard doctrine says, “Climb, regroup, retreat.” Instead, he…

March 19th, 2004. Ramani, Iraq. Marine Corporal James Mitchell crouches on a rooftop, his eye pressed against the unert scope of his M4 A3 sniper…

December 1944. The Western Front was no longer a line on a map. It was a moving pressure. Collapsing villages, flooded roads, frozen forests, and…

March 17th, 1944. Bay of Bisque off the coast of France. Squadron leader Humphrey Dverd Lee banks his coastal command Wellington bomber through the darkness…

January 17th, 1945. Bastonia, Belgium. The temperature has dropped to minus15 Fahrenheit. Private James Edward Mitchell sits alone in frozen darkness so complete it feels…

21,000 ft above the Mediterranean Sea, Staff Sergeant Benjamin Warmer presses his face against the freezing plexiglass of his B17 Flying Fortress. Through the morning…

The North Sea, December 3rd, 1939.09:15 hours. 24 Royal Air Force Wellington bombers slice through the freezing morning sky toward Heland, Germany’s fortified naval base.…

The Mustang rolls hard left and Captain Paul Hexter’s world becomes a spinning blur of desert sand and pale blue sky. Through his canopy, he…




