
He was 22 years old, a small town kid from Graham, Texas, who traded his drum major uniform at Harden Simmons University for an officer’s…

Only one man in history has shot down an enemy fighter plane with a pistol. March 31st, 1943. Second Lieutenant Owen Bagot is falling through…

The De Havlin mosquito shouldn’t have worked. By every measure of conventional military thinking, in 1938, Jeffrey De Havlin’s proposal was absurd. A bomber built…

September 1944, above Borneo, Major Richard Ira Bong eased his P38 Lightning into a shallow dive. Twin Allison engines purring with 3,000 combined horsepower as…

Declassified. 1944. High above the sweltering jungles of the Pacific, a lone predator scans the skies. Below him, Japanese fighters claw for altitude, desperate to…

Japan’s godlike zero aces roared with contempt at the grotesque American monster Hellcat. Then were exterminated in the Mariana’s cataclysmic aerial holocaust. June 19th, 1944,…

At exactly 1437 hours, March 18th, 1945, Captain Chuck Joerger spotted the jet Me262, Germany’s secret weapon, flying at 550 mph, 200 mph, faster than…

14,000 ft over the Hurchin Forest. October 12, 1944. Second Lieutenant David Deacon Miller is sweating. It is freezing in the cockpit of his P-51D…

At 11:47 a.m. on November 29th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Eugene Moran huddled in the cramped tail of B7F Ricky Tiki. The sky above Bremen was…

The morning of April 18th, 1942 dawned cold and gray over the deck of the USS Hornet. The Pacific wind carried salt and diesel fumes…




