
April 18th, 1945. Philippine Sea, 240 mi east of Okinawa. A lone zero sliced through the low morning clouds like a wounded falcon. Smoke trailing…

June 23rd, 1942, South Wales, 180 mi west of London. A lone Fauler Wolf FW 190 tore through scattered cumulus clouds like a wounded hawk,…

August 31st, 1943. Over the Solomon Islands, late morning, the sky is already busy when Lieutenant Saburo Endo, Imperial Japanese Navy, spots them for American…

November 5th, 1943. Dawn creeps over the Philippine Sea, staining the horizon a dull copper red. The deck of the USS Essex is already alive.…

At 11:32 on the morning of December 20th, 1943, Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown tightened his grip on the control yolk of his B7. As the…

At exactly 0847 hours, June 14th, 1944, 3 mi west of Corent in France, a Sherman tank sat motionless behind a collapsed stone barn. The…

At 6:15 on the morning of July 30th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Michael Aruth climbed through the narrow fuselage of AB17 called Tandlio and folded himself…

September 6th, 1943. 25,000 ft above Stuttgart, Germany, Staff Sergeant Michael Aruth hunches in the tail gunner compartment of the B17 Flying Fortress, nicknamed Tandelio,…

At 10:03 a.m. on June 19th, 1944, Lieutenant Junior Grade Alexander Vcu sat in his vibrating cockpit, watching the deck officer on the USS Lexington…

The date is October 14th, 1943. The location is the skies above Schwinfort, Germany. American daylight bombers, the pride of the United States Army Air…




