
March 1943, Vicar’s Armstrong testing grounds, Newcastle upon Tine. Military observers stand 50 yards from a sandbag wall. A commando fires seven rounds at the…

June 1944. A French railway worker finishes his lunch. Steps behind a signal box and crushes a small brass tube with his boot heel. A…

1941, a clandestine workshop in Hertfordshire. British engineers unveiled their newest sabotage weapon to special operations executive commanders. The device looked wrong, disturbingly wrong. It…

Summer 1940. Britain stood alone. France had fallen in six weeks. The Vermact had proven that modern war moved fast, too fast for the old…

June 1942, a walledoff section of a General Motors factory in Anderson, Indiana. 300 workers, according to production records, operate around the clock under sworn…

1942, a batch of early M1 bazookas reaches British commanders in Egypt for evaluation. They arrange a demonstration against a captured Panza 3. The rocket…

Why America’s genius baseball grenade killed more Americans than Germans. 1943 Rochester, New York. Inside an unmarked building surrounded by high fences and guarded entrances,…

The inspection is already underway in a shallow artillery revetment south of Kursk in July 1943 where a single German gunner stands beside his own…

May 1940, 338,000 Allied soldiers are trapped against the French coast. The German army has cut them off. The Luftwaffer is bombing the port of…

March 1943, Mid-Atlantic. A type 7 CU boat sits at 200 feet. Engine stopped, crew silent. Above them, a British corvette has made contact. A…





