
The sky was quiet in a way that only war can make it. A thin blue silence stretched over a world tearing itself apart. Inside…

August 15th, 1940. The waters of the English Channel shimmer beneath a cloudless sky. A Hankle E11 bomber, one of 18 crossing toward Portsmouth, banks…

Cuban sector, southern Russia, April 1943. The mud of the airfield at Crossnadar is thick enough to swallow a boot, but the sky above is…

How A “Camera Plane” Shot Down 7 Fighters In 6 Minutes The Americans called it the Iron Cathedral. The British called it the three-story disaster.…

At 700 a.m. on the morning of January 11th, 1945, Major William Shomo crouched in the cockpit of his Mustang, watching 13 enemy shapes materialize…

October 14th, 1943. Schweinford, Germany. Lieutenant Colonel Berno Lei Jr. watches through blood streaked plexiglass as another B7 explodes. The third one in 60 seconds.…

At 07:30 on October 24th, 1944, Commander David McCambell climbed into the cockpit of his F6F5 Hellcat on the flight deck of USS Essex, watching…

Imagine this. 27,000 ft above the shattered spires of Castle, Germany. July 30th, 1943. The world below is a blurred smear of green fields and…

The date was June 23rd, 1943, and the time read 700 hours sharp when Lieutenant Commander John Blackburn stood on that coral runway in the…

The summer of 1940 found Britain barely hanging on by its fingernails. The Luftwuffer was pounding British cities night after night. Ubot was strangling supply…




