
Lieutenant Richard Bong’s P38. Lightning shuddered violently as 20 millimeter cannon rounds tore through the left engine cowling. At 18,000 ft above the Solomon Islands,…

September 19th, 1944. Captain Jimmy Leech sat in his Sherman tank near the French village of Arakor, staring into a wall of white. The…

You can train your men to die without hesitation. But if your system cannot function when the wires are cut, if your survival relies on…

The tools of war evolve from swords to submarines to drones, but the fatal flaw of human nature remains the same. Arrogance is the ultimate…

Imagine walking into a room where everyone insists you are wrong. The generals, the politicians, the engineers. They all believe the future belongs to bombers.…

August 12th, 1944. Flight Lieutenant James Crawford was 5 seconds away from death, and he knew it. The Messor Schmidt BF 109 on his tail…

December 1944, somewhere in the frozen forests of eastern France and a German sniper watched through his Zeiss scope as another American patrol moved into…

12 German fighters climb hard through fractured cloud. Their radios crackle with confusion. The target is already gone. Not turning, not diving, just gone. The…

April 7th, 1945. 217 p.m. East China Sea. USS New Jersey fires. Two shells scream across 12 mi of ocean. They slam into the Japanese…

At on the morning of October 12th, 1944, Captain Toshikazu Omeay stood in the operations room of the second airfleet headquarters on Formosa and studied…




