
At 0742 on March 6th, 1945, Corporal Clarence Smooyer crouched inside the turret of an M26 Persing tank in the rubble choked streets of Cologne,…

May 21st, 1943. The North Atlantic. Coordinates 50° north, 35° west. The ocean here is not just water. It is a shifting gray mountain range…

At 07:15 on July 8th, 1944, Private Guy Gabbaldin stood at the base of Bonsai Cliffs on Saipan, staring at cave entrances where hundreds of…

February 20th, 1945. The volcanic ash beneath Lieutenant Yamada’s boots crunches like broken glass as he peers through the concrete observation slit of pillbox 247.…

The boy stands in front of the American doctor, eyes halfopen, mouth tasting like copper. He coughs once, hard enough that his ribs hurt, and…

At 4:47 on the morning of May 11th, 1945, Private John McKini lay in his tent near Dingolan Bay, Luzon, unaware that approximately 100 Japanese…

30,000 ft over the shimmering frozen patchwork of Belgium. December 1944, Captain Sila’s slick Vance is fighting two enemies. The first is the Luftwaffa somewhere…

June 4th, 1944, 11:06 in the morning, 800 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands off the African coast, Lieutenant Junior Grade Albert David stood…

March 17th, 1941. 037 hours. The North Atlantic, 40 mi northeast of Ireland. Commander Donald McIntyre stands rigid on the bridge of HMS Walker, his…

At 11:23 a.m. on September 19th, 1944, Private First Class Walter Kowalsski crouched inside his M4 Sherman tank near Araort, France with three German Panzer…





