
March 8th, 1944, 11,000 feet above southern Germany. Through the crystal clear canopy of his P-51 Mustang, flight officer Bruce Carr. Bruce Carr felt his…

Dajora Airfield, New Guinea. November 1943. The air in New Guinea does not act like air. It acts like soup. It is heavy, saturated with…

January 3rd, 1944, 30,000 ft above the frozen fields of Lower Saxony, the air was thin and bitter cold. Inside the cockpit of his Focolf…

March 19th, 1944. 1437 hours. 22,000 ft above the Bavarian forest. The air was thin and bitter cold. Ice crystals danced in the slipstream. 10…

June 26th, 1943. 24,000 ft. Over the English Channel. The air is thin, cold, and deceptive. To the naked eye, the sky is a sprawling…

March 4th, 1944. 0647 hours. RAF Debben, Essex, England. The metal was cold enough to burn. Captain Don Gentile pressed his gloved hand against the…

At p.m. on October 14th, 1943, the sky over Germany was a freezing, chaotic nightmare. Inside the fuselage of a B7 flying fortress named Ye…

March 15, 1944, 20,000 feet above Berlin, the Faka Wolf 190 pilot from Hamburg saw the American fighter approaching and actually smiled. Another one of…

March 15, 1944, 25,000 ft above Berlin, the Messersmid pilot from Bavaria couldn’t stop laughing. Through his canopy, he watched the American P-51 Mustang trying…

March 7th, 1944, 12,000 ft above Brandenburg, Oberloitant Wilhelm Huffman of Yagashwatter, 11 spotted the incoming bomber stream. 400 B7s stretched across the horizon like…



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