
November 1944. The skies over Yugoslavia. A lone American P38 Lightning carves through hostile airspace. Fuel gauge bleeding toward empty. Nine Soviet Yak fighters close…

Over the English Channel in the winter of 1944, a B17 drops from formation with two engines dead. The crew knows the drill. Bail out.…

Five Messer Schmidts circle above him like wolves. The throttle is screaming. His wingmen are already gone. He is 23 years old, alone at 18,000…

Six messes spiral toward the earth in 90 seconds. Their pilots never saw what killed them. They scanned the open sky. They checked their tails.…

June 1944, somewhere over the Philippine Sea, a lone Hellcat pilot glanced at his fuel gauge, then at the five Japanese fighters circling above him…

The Mustang was bleeding oil, trailing white smoke across the frozen German sky. 13 fighters circled him like wolves, their wingmen stacking high and low,…

14 German fighters closing fast, a formation of bombers, bleeding fuel and fire, and one pilot who ignored every rule in the manual and told…

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 summer air over Brandenburgg shimmers with heat as Halpedman Vera Tierfelder walks toward the fighter sitting on Recklin’s concrete apron. It’s the 20th of…

In 1943, the US Army Air Forces believed the P47 Thunderbolt was a failure. Too heavy, too slow, unable to dogfight. But one commander refused…




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