
10 Stooka dive bombers descend in perfect formation. A single P47 Thunderbolt breaks from the escort pattern and climb straight toward them. The radio erupts…

70 circle above the Coral Sea. A lone P38 Lightning trails thick black smoke from both engines, losing altitude in a slow spiral. The pilot…

SixFW190s closing at 400 mph. One P47 pilot throttles back and pulls vertical into what looks like suicide. The German flight leader calls it over…

Three Messers Schmidt 109’s drop from the sun like stones. Captain Leland Voss sees them at 18,000 ft. Silver flashes against winter clouds over occupied…

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

March 26th, 1945. Three German generals are screaming into telephones. Army Group B is fleeing northeast. First parachute army is running east. 7th Army is…

At 1400 hours on June 19th, 1944, Lieutenant Alexander Vatzu pushed his F6F3 Hellcat into a dive, watching six Japanese Yokosuka D4Y dive bombers descend…

At 1400 hours on June 19th, 1944, Lieutenant Alexander Vatzu pushed his F6F3 Hellcat into a dive, watching six Japanese Yokosuka D4Y dive bombers descend…

March 27th, 1945, hours. A German regimental commander emerges from his headquarters carrying a white flag. Behind him, 300 soldiers lay down their weapons without…

At on March 1st, 1943, Major Ed Lerner stood on the rain soaked coral runway at Port Moresby, watching his B25 Mitchell bomber crews prepare…




