
On the night of August 21st, 1942, at 11:57 p.m., Captain John High Totower crouched behind a muddy ridge on Guadal Canal, watching shadows move…

Vice Admiral Janichi Kusaka stood on the bridge of his flagship in Rabol, reading the intelligence report with barely concealed contempt. December 1942. His staff…

It was the fifth wave of US Marines hitting the beach on Iuima. Sherman tanks rolled off their landing craft, but eight of them, though…

At 6:58 a.m. on October 25th, 1944, lookouts aboard USS Samuel B. Roberts spotted four Japanese battleships emerging 15 mi northwest as the destroyer escort…

At 1427 on June 14th, 1944, Sergeant Gordon Harris crouched inside his Sherman Firefly at the eastern edge of Lingra’s Normandy, watching five German Panther…

March 10th, 1945. Tokyo was no longer a city that slept. It was a furnace. From the air, the B-29 superfortresses of the US Army…

In the spring of 1943, a German railway supervisor named Hinrich walked the length of a supply train somewhere in occupied France. He had done…

May 6th, 1945. Remesams, France. A dull, gray, rainy day. In a small red brick schoolhouse, the fate of the world was being decided. This…

At 0700 on March 30th, 1945, Major General Maurice Rose rode in the lead jeep of Task Force Wellbborne, south of Patterborn, Germany, watching the…

March 9th, 1945. 11:48 at night, Major General Seo Arisuer, Chief of Intelligence for the Imperial Japanese Army, stood at the window of his office…





