
Boxed airfield, Essex, England. December 1st, 1943. The morning broke cold and gray across the RAF base where American pilots were about to experience the…

December 29th, 1944. Meuire Field, Muro Island, Philippines. At 2340 hours, the darkness is absolute. Major Carol Smith crouches in the cramped cockpit of his…

27,000 ft above Castle, Germany. July 30th, 1943. Staff Sergeant Michael Aruth’s fingers are numb inside his electric gloves. The temperature in the tail section…

March 27th, 1945. Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force. Eisenhower is staring at a situation map that makes no sense. Patton’s Third Army was supposed to…

At 2:47 p.m. on the 5th of March, 1944, flight officer Charles Jagger pulled his P-51 Mustang into a climbing turn over Bordeaux, France, watching…

August 1944, France. German high command was watching in growing panic as Patton’s third army tore across the countryside. Towns were falling daily. Entire divisions…

America produced military genius in World War II. Patton’s Third Army killed over a million enemy soldiers. Bradley commanded the largest American force in history…

February 1st, 1943 over Tunisia, North Africa. Lieutenant Kendrick R. Bragg Jr. was piloting his B17F flying fortress on a bombing mission against German held…

Early on the morning of November 14th, 1944, as winter tightened its grip on Western Germany, according to later German recollections, one artillery officer recalled…

In early 1942, inside the Bell aircraft factory in Buffalo, there were tense moments that many engineers later remembered, and they showed how uncertain the…




