
January 17th, 1945. 14,000 ft above the frozen patchwork of Bavaria. The air is thin, brittle with cold that seeps through leather and steel alike.…

March 3rd, 1943, 22,000 ft above the Vilhelms Haven Peninsula, northern Germany. The cold was absolute. At this altitude, the temperature hovered near 40° below…

March 12th, 1944. Over the skies of Brunswick, Germany. a.m. The sky was impossibly blue. The kind of crystalline cloudless blue that belongs only to…

June 13th, 1944. in the morning, the first V1 flying bomb crossed the English Channel under cover of darkness. Its pulsejet engine roared like a…

March 6th, 1944. in the morning. At 28,000 ft over central Germany, the air is thin and brutally cold. Oxygen masks frost over with each…

December 23rd, 1944. in the morning. The fog hung low over the Ardan forest, thick and white, muffling sound and swallowing light. Through the mist…

The Smartest WWII Dogfight Trick Was Never Planned Dajura airfield, New Guinea, November 1943. The air in New Guinea does not act like air. It…

January 17th, 1945. Western Germany, the Eiffel Hills. The forest was silent in the way only winter can make it. Brittle, expectant, holding its breath.…

Somewhere over the Pacific, a lone Hellcat pushed through cloud layers at speeds that made the airframe tremble. Behind him, nine Japanese interceptors fanned out…

March 14th, 1944. Lieutenant William Anderson crouched in a muddy ditch 30 mi inside Germany, watching smoke pour from his B17 flying fortress as it…



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