
A single gladiator biplane circles above the Libyan desert. The cockpit is open. The wind screams. Below 14 Italian fighters climb toward him in formation.…

March 4, 1944. 423B7 flying fortresses return from Berlin. The deepest American daylight penetration into the Reich. Over 1,000 mi round trip. Command expects them…

He never fired a gun in anger, never claimed a kill, never chased glory through the smoke of a dog fight. Yet by the winter…

February 1945, Northern Italy. A single P47 Thunderbolt drops to 60 ft above frozen ground. Canopy close enough to catch the spray of snow kicked…

The morning of July 2008, 1944 dawns over Seram Island in the Dutch East Indies. Colonel Charles Macdonald leads his P38 Lightning formation through hostile…

May 1943, over the skies of northern France, General Duryagfleer Adolf Galand pushed his Messid BF 109 into a climbing turn, tracking what should have…

April 1944, Berlin. General Litnand Adolf Galland stands before the German Air Ministry holding a report that no one wants to read. Between January and…

To the aces of the Luftvafa, the self-proclaimed masters of the European sky. It was a joke. A asterisk Flegenda Milch Flasher asterisk, a flying…

Czechoslovakian airspace, November 2, 1944. The P-51D Mustang is a machine built around a single screaming premise, energy. It is a kinetic sculpture of aluminum…

At a.m. on April 15th, 1944, Second Lieutenant Robert L. Booth was falling out of the sky over Germany at 500 mph, and he was…



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