
Normandy, June 1944. A single strand of wire stretched at ankle height across a ruted farm road would stop 56 tons of German armor in…

March 4th, 1944. 25,000 ft above Berlin. For the first time in history, American fighter planes circle over the Nazi capital. Not reconnaissance aircraft sneaking…

April 8th, 1945. The skies over Germany. A single American fighter, battered, riddled with flag holes, one landing gear half shredded, limps back toward Allied…

March 15th, 1943. The North Atlantic, 400 miles southwest of Iceland. The sea is iron gray beneath low clouds. And Yubot commander Capitan Litnant Hans…

April 18th, 1943, high above the jungles of Buganville, Admiral Isuroku Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbor, the most brilliant naval mind Japan had ever…

At 10 in the morning on December 20th, 1941, pilot Bert Chrisman crouched in the cockpit of his P40 Warhawk, watching a nightmare unfold in…

May 18th, 1944. Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea. Private First Class. Harold Moon crouches behind a shattered palm tree as machine gun fire tears through…

April 15th, 1944. North Atlantic 0847 hours. Boom. The first explosion ripped through the freezing water at 200 ft below the surface. Inside U448, 44…

On a frigid afternoon in December 1944, deep inside a temporary American interrogation center in the Arden, a captured German officer, General Major Carl Adolf…

England. February 1945. Rain hammered the metal roofs of the eighth air force depot at Leon like angry fingers on tin. The war was still…




