
At 2200 hours on November 17th, 1944, Sergeant Mel Grevich stood in a storage warehouse at Camp Tarowa, Hawaii, staring at a row of damaged…

The boy stands in the intake line at Camp Aliceville, Alabama, with his chin locked forward like a statue. The American guard asks him to…

At 1347 hours on August 17th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Benjamin Warner, 22, turret gunner on B17 FA Hell’s Wrath, watches 12 BF-19 cess form up…

At 07:30 on September 18th, 1944, Private First Class Arthur Jackson pressed his body against a coral outcrop on Peloo Island, watching Japanese machine gun…

At 4:45 in the morning on July 7th, 1944, Private Thomas Baker lay in his foxhole on the Tanipag plane of Saipan, watching a wave…

At 07:30 on October 24th, 1944, Technical Sergeant Charles Culage crouched in the Voj forest east of Belmalt Sur Bhuton, watching cold rain drip from…

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…

August 1945, the Pacific War had ended with a sudden silence broken only by the thunderous echo of two bombs whose shadows still lingered in…

October 23rd, 1942. Elammagne, Egypt. The desert night erupts in fire. 1,000 British artillery pieces unleash the greatest barrage since the First World War. Their…

June 14th, 1943. Wrightfield, Dayton, Ohio. So 547 hours. The B17 engine screams. Not the healthy roar of 12900 horsepower turning four tons of aluminum…





