
1912. The Admiral T orders a gun that has never been tested, skipping the prototype stage entirely and commits five battleships to a weapon that…

August 1942, a rail head somewhere south of Alexandria, Egypt. Dust hangs in the air like a curtain. Men from the Royal Army Service Corps…

August 1942, a rail head somewhere south of Alexandria, Egypt. Dust hangs in the air like a curtain. Men from the Royal Army Service Corps…

Late 1939, the Adalie Park factory, Birmingham, England. A squat beetlebacked vehicle rolls off the production line and onto the wet concrete of the loading…

June 1943, a group of RAF pilots stand on an airfield in southern England, staring at their typhoons. Something is wrong. Bolted beneath each wing…

December 1944, a lone P-51 Mustang screams toward Earth at 450 miles per hour, straight into a formation of 8 FW190s. The other pilots watch…

September 1944. A lone American bomber tries something impossible. Enemy fighters close from behind. Guns hot. The pilot drops his landing flaps at 200 mph.…

March 3rd, 1945, Okinawa, Pacific Theater. The radar operator’s voice cracks over the radio. Massive bogey count. I repeat, massive bogey count. Over 300 Japanese…

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…

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…





