
October 11th, 1943, 23,000 ft above Wiiwok, New Guinea. Colonel Neil Kirby levels his P47 Thunderbolt and scans the horizon through the armored glass of…

November 16th, 1951. The morning fog lifts off Portsouth Harbor as Captain Dennis Campbell climbs the gangway to HMS Illustrious. In his briefcase rests a…

March 8th, 1944. RAF Woodbridge, Suffukk, England. 1437 hours. Flight Lieutenant Michael Reynolds stands in the control tower, binoculars pressed to his face, watching a…

December 21st, 1944, South China Sea. a.m. George Grder stands in a metal tube 300 ft beneath enemy controlled waters, staring at three massive Japanese…

April 17th, 1941. Mid-Atlantic, 400 miles south of Iceland. a.m. Commander Donald McIntyre stands on the bridge of HMS Walker, watching a white wake racing…

Six messes close from above, guns already firing. The bomber shutters. Tracer rounds slice past the windscreen in silver streaks. The crew braces for impact.…

February 14th, 1943. p.m. 20,000 ft above Guadal Canal. First Lieutenant Kenneth Walsh rolls his F4U Corsair hard left, trying to follow the Zero. The…

At a.m. on October 31st, 1943, Technical Sergeant Arthur Beno crouched behind the twin 50 caliber machine guns in the top turret of a B-24…

March 6th, 1944, 23,000 ft over Germany, a B7 flying fortress named Hell’s Fury flew deep in enemy airspace. In the tail gun position, Staff…

At a.m. on January 11th, 1944, Major James Howard circled his P-51B Mustang four miles above Osher Slaben, Germany, watching 30 German fighters dive towards…





