
March 1943. A U-boat surfaced in the Bay of Biscay at midnight. The commander needed to recharge batteries. Standard procedure. The diesels coughed to life.…

November 13th, 1942. 1:38 a.m. Iron Bottom Sound off Guadal Canal. The ocean is flat, black, featureless. No moon, no stars, just darkness pressed down…

The morning of November 11th, 1943, Lieutenant Junior Grade Alex Vasu rolled his F6F Hellcat into a steep dive at 14,000 ft above Rabal Harbor.…

Three Messersmidt BF-1 09s closing from above. A lone American P47 Thunderbolt limping through German airspace. Hydraulics failing, oil pressure dropping. The pilot reaches for…

Six Messersmidt BF109 circle above the Lir Valley like wolves around wounded prey. Below them, a lone Republic P47 Thunderbolt limps through broken clouds, trailing…

The sky over the Santa Cruz Islands erupts in fire. The 26th of October 1942. 0908 hours. Lieutenant Stanley Swed Vetasa banks his Grumman F4…

At 10:15 a.m. on March 31st, 1944, Second Lieutenant Owen John Bagot hangs suspended in his parachute harness at 15,000 ft above the Burmese jungle,…

At 1437 hours on August 13th, 1944, Flight Lieutenant Jeffrey Brown banked his typhoon hard over the Normandy countryside and saw what every pilot dreams…

The sky over Germany, 1943, was calm. Too calm. High above the clouds, the low, distant hum of engines began to grow slowly, steadily, like…

March 1944, darkness over northern Germany. A Luftwaffa night fighter pilot climbs through 15,000 ft, hunting British bombers in his Messersmidt BF-110. His Likenstein radar…




