
June 6th, 1944. 00020 hours. Two Horser gliders slam into fields beside the Orn River Bridge at Ranville in Normandy. German defenders open fire with…

November 1940. A Luftwaffer bomber crew is threading through the darkness over southern England. Confident in their invisibility, they have flown this route before. British…

July 1942, somewhere in the Libyan desert, 200 miles behind RML’s front line, a standard American Willies jeep built to carry four men and a…

1958. The Elvis factory, Holyhead Road, Coventry. British engineers roll out a vehicle that looks like someone bolted a tank turret onto a car. Six…

North Africa, 1943. A vehicle that shouldn’t exist rumbles across 600 miles of open desert, carrying eight men, four machine guns, and enough fuel to…

1944 the dimmapur to kohima to Ifal road northeast India 130 mi of winding hill track and the only supply route for over 150,000 British…

November 1944. A bottling factory somewhere in Britain. The same floor that once filled soda bottles now assembles rocket launchers. The workers are not ordinance…

October 1942, Lalamagne, the 66th Mortar Company, Royal Engineers, has just received its new weapons. These mortars look nothing like the lightweight tubes infantry carry.…

June 6th, 1944. 0523 hours, Offsord Beach, Normandy. HMS Roberts trained her twin 15-in guns toward the German battery at Holgate, perched on a cliff…

March 1945, the west bank of the Rine near Remigan. American engineers worked frantically to expand their bridge head after capturing the Ludenorf Bridge intact,…




