
The sticky tropical air of Saipan hangs heavy with the metallic scent of blood and cordite as Captain Ben Salomon wipes sweat from his brow…

March 17th, 1945, 42,000 ft above the Bavarian Alps, Major Richard Peterson pulls back on the control column of his P-51D Mustang and watches ice…

March 17th, 1941. North Atlantic 037 hours. Commander Donald McIntyre stands on the bridge of HMS Walker, his knuckles white against frozen steel. Below him,…

December 18th, 1944. Snow-covered fields 3 km south of Bastonia, Belgium. Sergeant Ernest Rocky Marsden pressed his body flat against the frozen earth as the…

April 27th, 1942. The entrance to the FTH of Clyde, Scotland. Commander David Fletcher gripped the railing of the harbor patrol boat as his search…

November the 2nd, 1943. 22,000 ft above the Bismar Sea, Staff Sergeant Michael Russo watches the contrails multiply behind his B24 Liberator. 8 12 20…

January 30th, 1944. Southeast of Palao Island, Philippine Sea, 0200 hours, Lieutenant Commander Slade Cutter stands in the Conning Tower of USS Seahorse, 180 ft…

January 17th, 1944, 29,000 ft above the frozen fields of Brunswick, Germany, the air was thin and cold enough to crack bone. Ice crystals formed…

December 25th, 1944. Christmas Day, 1,200 ft above Negros Island, Philippines. Thomas Maguire is inverted at 220 mph, pursuing a Japanese Zero that’s about to…

June 4th, 1942, 10:22 a.m. 25,000 ft above the Pacific Ocean, Lieutenant Richard H. Dick. Best peered down through his SBD Dauntless canopy at four…




