
On October 9th, 1942, 20,000 ft above a jungle island called Guadal Canal, a 22-year-old American pilot named Marian Carl was fighting for his life.…

November 18th, 1944. 427 hours. Buganville Island. Corporal James Mitchell, 23 years old, Massachusetts native, lies in a hastily dug foxhole on Hill 260, watching…

At 11:47 p.m. on March 14th, 1944, Sergeant William Bill Hartley crouched in a bombedout factory basement outside Casino, Italy, staring at what his officers…

At 1:47 p.m. on April 14th, 1944, Private Jack Hatchet Riley, crouched in a Shell Crater on Bugenville Island, gripping a javelin he’d carved from…

At 9:47 a.m. on March 31st, 1943, Second Lieutenant Owen Bagot watched his burning B-24 Liberator tear itself apart over Burma, while 13 Japanese fighters…

At precisely 3:47 in the morning on April 9th, 1943, two German military trains carrying over 600 soldiers and enough ammunition to level a small…

September 13th, 1944. 6:40 2 a.m. in the morning. Dchow concentration camp, Germany. Four women kneel in the dirt, hands tied behind their backs. SS…

The intake nurse at the American holding facility in France sees a thin German prisoner of war walk through the door in late April 1945.…

At 27,000 ft over Schweinford, Germany on October 14th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Michael Arcangelo pressed his face against the freezing plexiglass of his ball turret…

At 0150 on May 19th, 1944, Lieutenant Commander Walton Pendleton stood in the cramped combat information center of USS England, watching his sonar operator track…





