
In May 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy felt invincible. They had swept across the Pacific, crushed the British at Singapore, and left Pearl Harbor in…

August 6th, 1944. 28,000 ft above northern Germany. The cold at 5 m high doesn’t feel cold. It feels like drowning in frozen mercury. Major…

October 24th, 1942. The southern perimeter of Henderson Field, Guadal Canal. The battle for Guadal Canal wasn’t balanced on grand strategy. It was balanced on…

The clang of the camp gates echoed like a final sentence for Hanakosato, 24 years old and weary from years of war. The sound marked…

In the summer of 1943, the Allies were preparing to kick down the door to Fortress Europe. The target was Sicily. But the real battle…

August 3rd, 1941. Mid-Atlantic, positioned 55° north, 19° west. The convoy stretches across the gray water like a floating city. 37 merchant ships laden with…

It is July 26th of 1943 and over the South Pacific a flight of twin engine aircraft flown by the American Army Air Force storms…

It is the early summer of 1944 and both sides of the battle in Europe can feel the fight approaching a crucial moment. This moment…

January 1944, Anzio Beach Head, Italy. Two British destroyers sit offshore providing gunfire support. German aircraft attack with guided glide bombs. Sources differ on whether…

It is the early hours of August 2nd, 1942, and somewhere in the black water northwest of Gernzi, Lieutenant Commander Robert Hitchens has cut his…


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