
December 20th, 1943. The skies over Bremen, Germany. Second Lieutenant Charles Chuck Joerger banks his P-51 Mustang hard left as tracer rounds slice through the…

At 6:14 in the morning on June 19th, 1944, Commander David McCambell sat in the cockpit of his F6F Hellcat on the deck of the…

At 6:42 in the morning on July 30th, 1942, Captain Howard Pacwin pressed himself against the cold metal of his B-25 Mitchell’s cockpit framed somewhere…

December 16th, 1944 0500 hours. SS Obashturban Furer Yuakim Piper stands in the turret of his King Tiger, watching the Grey Dawn break over the…

It is the winter of 1944. The temperature in the Arden’s forest has dropped to minus30° C. American soldiers are crouched in frozen foxholes, half…

December 22nd, 1944. The snow fell thick over the Belgian forest near Bastonia, and through the trees came the grinding sound of German tank treads.…

May 1941, the North Atlantic, a 50,300 ton battleship, the most powerful warship in European waters, had just destroyed HMS Hood in under 3 minutes.…

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,…

It is the early hours of August 2nd, 1942, and somewhere in the black water northwest of Gernzi, Lieutenant Commander Robert Hitchens has cut his…

North Atlantic Ocean, 52 degrees north, March 1943. The sea is a bruise, gray, green, and heaving. It rises and falls in slow, enormous swells…




