
November 1942, North Atlantic. A Royal Navy Corvette closes on a sonar contact. AIC pinging steadily against a submerged yubot 400 yd ahead. The captain…

March 1943. A training ground near Orford Suffukk. Villages have been quietly relocated. The fields are scarred with concrete walls, buried mines, and replica German…

March 1936. Eastley Aerodrome, Hampshire, England. A single engine monoplane rolls out of a hanger onto damp grass. Its wings are not straight. They curve…

1963 Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Strenzel, Yorkshire, a firing range on the edge of the North York Moors. Nine British Army armorers carry a machine gun…

Late 1943, the Elswick works of Vicers Armstrong’s Newcastle upon Tine, Northern England. A tracked vehicle rolls off the factory floor and onto a rain…

August 1944, a Royal Canadian electrical and mechanical engineers workshop somewhere behind the can sector, Normandy. 250 men work through the night under canvas and…

January 18th, 1944. Berlin, 3:17 in the morning. The air raid sirens have been wailing for 11 minutes already, and the residents of the German…

The night sky over southern England erupts. It is 11:47 p.m. on the 17th of February, 1944, and somewhere above the Sussex countryside, a Hankl11…

1941. The Dameler Works, Radford, Coventry. A four-w wheeled machine rolls out of the factory gates and onto the bomb-crated streets of a city that…

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