
Seven German fighters, one American pilot. No altitude, no clouds, no escape route mapped in any manual. The radio man back at base heard him…

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

Six Messor Schmidts spiraled toward the Earth in 90 seconds. Their pilots never saw what killed them. They scanned the open sky. They checked their…

At p.m. April 7th, 1945, Seaman Firstclass Thomas Tommy Ror braced a weapon that didn’t exist in any Navy manual against the oil sllicked steel…

October 14th, 1943, 35,000 ft above Nazi Germany, Captain Robert Johnson levels his P47 Thunderbolt into formation with 300 other American bombers and fighters heading…

April 18th, 1943, 28,000 ft above Bugenville, Solomon Islands, First Lieutenant Rex T Barber scanned the sky above his P38 Lightning as the sun climbed…

The morning sun burns through the humid Solomon Islands air as Lieutenant Commander Hiroshi Nishawa adjusts his goggles and grips the control stick of his…

October 1942. The skies over Malta. A Spitfire pilot watches an MI 109 close in from behind. He has 3 seconds. Instead of diving or…

December 1944, a single reconnaissance pilot crosses into German airspace, armed only with cameras. His orders are explicit. Photograph the bridge and return. No combat,…

Four Messor Schmidts close in from . The bomber’s tail gunner is dead. The intercom crackles with static and panic. The pilot reaches down, not…





