
July 1940, Central Mediterranean HMS Wars Bite, a 25-year-old battleship armed with guns designed in 1912, opens fire on the Italian battleship Julio Chisare. The…

Saipon, July 1944. The island smolders under the Pacific sun, its once green ridges now blackened by shellfire and silence. The wind carries the faint…

May 7th, 1945, the day the war in Europe ended. At the fighting vehicle proving establishment in Chzy Surrey, a strange new tank rolled out…

When Luftvafa ground stations broadcast akong akong Porrishkin is in the air, junior German pilots were ordered to return to their airfields immediately, not engage,…

October 9, 1944. The Brockman Inlet, Shelt Estie, the Netherlands. As darkness fell, a convoy of enormous machines rolled toward the water’s edge. They were…

1940 Lworth Rangers Dorset. Britain is reeling from Dunkirk. The army has lost most of its heavy equipment on the beaches of France. And in…

October 25th, 1944. The Philippine Sea off Samar Island. A Japanese lookout aboard the heavy cruiser Chukuma spots smoke on the horizon. Within minutes, Vice…

It is the summer of 1944, and somewhere beneath the flat, unforgiving farmland of occupied France, a Panther tank sits motionless at the edge of…

August 1942, a rail head somewhere south of Alexandria, Egypt. Dust hangs in the air like a curtain. Men from the Royal Army Service Corps…

1940. The Ford Motorworks Dagenham, East London. A tracked vehicle rolls off the assembly line and onto the factory floor. It is 12 ft long,…





