
22 minutes is not a long time, unless you’re 19 years old, alone at 18,000 ft, and every aircraft around you wears the wrong insignia.…

December 1944. The sky over Germany belongs to the Predators. A lone American P-51 pulls away from formation, trailing smoke. Four Mesa circle like wolves.…

The North Atlantic, March 1944. Cold, merciless waves crashed against the steel hull of U557 as Capitan Litant Friedrich Vber gripped the periscope handles with…

October 14th, 1943, 26,000 ft above Schwinfort, Germany, 291 B17 flying fortresses are flying into hell. Their mission, destroy the ballbearing factories that keep every…

April 2nang, 1945. 13,000 ft above Schwinfort, Germany. First Lieutenant Bruce Ward Carr scans the sky and sees something impossible. 60 German fighters, Faka Wolf…

February 22nd, 1944. 23,000 ft above the French countryside, Major James Howard scans the sky through the canopy of his P-51 Mustang. Below him, 35…

February 10th, 1945. Baton Island, Philippines. A Douglas C-47 transport descends through cloudy skies at 150 ft, landing gear down, flaps extended. Inside, eight passengers…

February 20th, 1940. North Atlantic, 300 m west of Ireland. Lieutenant Commander Frederick Warders stands on the bridge of HMS Valiant, watching a German Yubot…

June 4th, 1942. a.m. 180 mi northwest of Midway at Raymond Spruent stands on the flag bridge of the USS Enterprise watching empty ocean. His…

The crisis. Lieutenant Commander Edward Butch O’Hare watches his fuel gauge drop toward empty as six Japanese zeros circle above him like sharks. It’s February…





