
The TBF Avenger lurches violently to the right. Enen Albert Bert Ernest grips the control stick with both hands, but the aircraft refuses to respond.…

The B25 Mitchell screams across Cebu Harbor at 100 ft. So low the spray from its prop wash lashes the water beneath. Inside, Captain Paul…

At 6 mi high, one mistake meant death. On May 27th, 1944, a lone American P-51 climbed straight into the guns of a master German…

October 14th, 1943. The skies over Rabbal, New Britain. 18. Boeing B. 17. Flying fortresses materialized through the clouds. Their aluminum bodies catching the tropical…

At exactly 11 minutes past 2 in the afternoon on December 7th, 1943, Lieutenant James Howard’s right arm stopped working. The temperature at 27,000 ft…

At 11:47 a.m. on February 3rd, 1944, Staff Sergeant Elmer G. Richardson assumes his position in the tail gun compartment of AB17 Flying Fortress designated…

At 10:47 a.m. on February 1st, 1944, Second Lieutenant John Cronin pulls back on the yolk of his B24 Liberator over Lind, Austria. Climbing through…

At 2:47 p.m. on April 1st, 1945, Captain Robert Rosenthal drops his P-51D Mustang through broken clouds at 8,000 ft over occupied France, 60 mi…

In August 1942 in the Southwest Pacific theater, military engineers were adamant adding 850 caliber machine guns to the nose of a B25 Mitchell medium…

February 23rd, 1943, 22,000 ft above the Tunisian desert, Staff Sergeant Robert Bobby McKenzie crouches in the tail gunner position of his B17 flying fortress,…




