
June 15th, 1944. Saipan, Marana Islands. The jungle was alive with sound. The distant percussion of artillery, the rustle of palm frrons in the humid…

At 4:17 a.m. on May the 25th, 1942, in a windowless concrete room at the Fleet Radio Unit Pacific Headquarters in Honolulu, the war against…

It was August 6th, 1945. The sun rose gently over Hiroshima, spilling gold across the Otter River and the tiled roofs of a city that…

December 3rd, 1944. Herken Forest, Germany. The German machine gunner from the 326th Vulks Grenadier Division lined up his MG42 on the advancing American infantry.…

“Your Wound Is Infected…” — German POW Broke Down When American Surgeon Cleaned His Shrapnel Injury The intake nurse at the American prisoner of war…

December 1943, a German supply train thunders through occupied France, carrying ammunition, medical supplies, and winter uniforms for the Eastern Front. The locomotive driver shovels…

The smell hits the American surgeon before he even unwraps the bandage. It is not just blood or sweat. It is the sweet rotten stench…

April 1945, a medical tent at Camp Shanks, New York. The air smells like disinfectant and wet canvas. An American army doctor pulls back the…

The first explosion tears through the dawn at 05 for two hours. Then another, then four more in rapid succession. Six Royal Air Force fighters…

At 1731 hours on November 4th, 1944, squadron leader Brance Burbridge climbed into his mosquito night fighter at RAF Swanington as German radar emissions lit…





