
December 20th, 1943. 12:47 p.m. 11,000 ft above Bremen, Germany. The B7 is dying. Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown can feel it in the controls. The…

January 27th, 1945, before sunrise over the western Pacific Ocean. At approximately 6:30 local time, the aircraft Boeing B29 Superfortress designated a square 52 of…

Snow settles on the frozen canopy of the Herkin Forest, December 1944. As a young Leftwaffa pilot named Carl Hines Jagger presses his gloved hand…

June 5th, 1944. 11:47 p.m. A C47 transport shakes violently over the English Channel. Inside, a paratrooper from the 1001st Airborne Division cinches the leather…

August 1945, across the Pacific, from the airirst strips of the Philippines to the coral runways of Okinawa, from New Guinea to the Marianas, hundreds…

August 1945, across three continents, from the airfields of England to the islands of the Pacific, thousands of North American P-51 Mustangs sit in gleaming…

August 6th, 1944, Field Marshal Ga Fon Kluga stood in his headquarters at Lar Ro Guong staring at a map that promised either salvation or…

January 1944, Western Pacific Ocean. Just after midnight, the sea looks calm from the surface. A slow swell, no moonlight, only the faint silhouettes of…

Early morning, February 1944, complete darkness covers the Pacific Ocean. Vice Admiral Mark Mitcher stands on the bridge of USS Yorktown, watching his fleet cut…

Eight Messersmidt 109’s dive from 22,000 ft. Their wingman formation is textbook. Their closure rate exceeds 450 mau. Their firing solution is perfect. The lone…




