
At 7:30 a.m. on May 8th, 1942, Lieutenant Junior Grade Stanley Vatasa strapped into his Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber on the flight deck of…

At 11:23 on the morning of August 13th, 1945, First Lieutenant Oscar Pomo banked his P47N Thunderbolt hard left over the rugged hills near Kjo,…

The sky over Oro Bay was empty of clouds on the morning of March 11th, 1943. Clean, bright, and deceptively calm. 14,000 ft below, the…

November the 2nd, 1944. Late afternoon over Czechoslovakia, Lieutenant Bruce Carr isn’t thinking about heroism or escape routes. He’s watching an oil pressure needle collapse…

Debbdon Airfield, Essex, England. September 1943. The English rain does not wash things clean. It just makes the mud deeper. It coats the perforated steel…

23rd of September, 1944. Somewhere over the Netherlands, the Messid BF 109 pilot never hears it coming. One moment, he’s scanning the skies for enemy…

Am 4. Juli 1943 um 5:23 stand Oberfeldwebel Hans Richter hinter seiner 15 cm schweren Feldhaubitze bei Kursk und beobachtete, wie 600 sowjetische Panzer durch…

At 0615 on July 30th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Michael Aruth crawled into the tail position of B17 Tandleo at RAF Kimolton, watching a gray English…

At 11:23 on the morning of August 13th, 1945, First Lieutenant Oscar Perommo banked his P47N Thunderbolt hard left over Kjo, Korea, watching five Japanese…

At 0900 on February 19th, 1945, Corporal Tony Stein crouched behind a shallow depression in the black volcanic sand of Ewima, gripping a weapon his…




