
September 15th, 1940. 11:47 a.m. 23,000 ft above Kent, England. Squadron leader Douglas Bader banks his Hawker Hurricane hard left as Tracer round slice through…

March 17th, 1943. North Atlantic, 400 m south of Iceland. Convoy HX229 plows through 15t swells, 41 merchant ships laden with 140,000 tons of cargo…

November 8th, 1942. Operation Torch Beaches, North Africa. American GIS crouch behind sand dunes as German panzer fees thunder across the desert. Their 75 millimeter…

August 1944, the Allied breakthrough at Normandy has shattered German defenses across France. General George Patton’s third army is racing eastward at speeds no military…

They believed they were safe, far from enemy airfields, beyond torpedo range, protected by speed, distance, and the vast emptiness of the Pacific. Inside the…

Imagine a hallway, a long, narrow, dark hallway filled with seaater. At one end of this hallway, a giant is entering. A massive steelclad warrior…

January 1st, 1945. The time was 900 a.m. The location was a muddy, frozen patch of Belgian farmland designated by the US Army Air Forces…

July 1945. The waters of Kore Naval Base lay unnaturally still under the summer sun. Anchored among the remnants of what was once the mighty…

June 19th, 1944. In the midst of the vast blue waters of the Philippine Sea, one of the world’s most modern warships was preparing for…

August 7th, 1944. Half 6:00 a.m. near Morton, France. General Lightning Hinrich Aberbach, commander of Poner Group Abberach, stands in the command halftrack scanning the…




