
December the 1944. In the map room at 10 Downing Street, Winston Churchill sat beneath hard lamps and heavier silence. A cigar smoldering between his…

The Corsair should not still be flying. Flames pour from the engine cowling, streaming back across the canopy in ribbons of orange and black. The…

Eight Messers BF-109s dive out of the sun at 30,000 ft over central Germany. Below them, a single P-51 Mustang cruises at 25,000, separated from…

Six Messersmidt BF-109s close in tight over northern France. A lone P47 Thunderbolt trails black smoke from its right wing, limping through hostile sky at…

Five Japanese zeros close in from above. A lone Corsair limps through the Pacific sky, engine coughing, altitude bleeding away. The pilot is 19 years…

Am 23. Februar 1943 um 3:47 Uhr stand der 31-jährige Funktechniker Heinrich Gottwald in einem feuchten Bunker bei Emmerich am Rhein und starrte auf einen…

Um 3:47 Uhr am Morgen des 14. August 1943 saß Hauptmann Heinrich Prinz zu sein Witgenstein in seinem Cockpit über Penemünde und beobachtete durch sein…

11:30 a.m. July 20th, 1944. Bassenheim Airfield, Germany. Lieutenant Colonel Francis Gabreski pulls his P47 Thunderbolt into a steep dive. Target: German aircraft on the…

At 0745 on the morning of June 1st, 1940, Squadron leader Douglas Bader pushed his Hawker Hurricane to 3,000 ft above the French coast near…

It had a kill ratio of 11:1 and was one of the most feared fighters of the Second World War. It was the whistling death,…




