
March 31st, 1943. Somewhere over the jungles of Burma, 4,000 ft above the Earth, Second Lieutenant Owen Bagot is hanging in the sky, suspended from…

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…

April 1951. The Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting. General Omar Bradley read aloud from MacArthur’s latest cable from Korea. His voice was flat, controlled.…

June 1967, Egyptian tank commanders watched through their optics as a column of antiquated tanks approached across the Sinai desert. World War II relics, Shermans,…

You are standing in a war room somewhere in France. It is late November 1944. The walls are bare plaster or canvas stretched over wooden…

December 1944. The Battle of the Bulge was ending. German forces were retreating through a narrow corridor near Bastogne. American commanders wanted to close the…

January 7th, 1945. Montgomery’s headquarters, Belgium. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery called a press conference. The Battle of the Bulge was ending. German offensive defeated. Montgomery…

In the late 1930s, as war clouds gathered over Europe, sleek German fighter aircraft broke through the sound barrier of its time, shattering world speed…

In the summer of 1931, a roar echoed across Cleveland’s municipal airport. A stubby biplane painted in brilliant colors clawed skyward before pitching into a…

July 1942. The night air over the Libyan desert carries a strange stillness broken only by the low growl of an heavily loaded engine. A…





