
October 14th, 1943, 27,000 ft above Schwinford, Germany, Captain Don Blakesley, commanding the fourth fighter group, leveled his P47 Thunderbolt and scanned the sky ahead.…
It had only one engine versus the Lightning’s 2, and its 450 caliber machine guns seemed light compared to the P47s 8. But their first…

In a remarkable exercise spanning 15 years, the last survivors of the Great War were interviewed on film. These are unique stories of courage, sacrifice,…
And on the on the way I saw a tank and uh when he went across it stopped about halfway across which was about 3…

October 14th, 1944. 0500 hours, 5 kilometers south of Aen, Germany. Captain David Mitchell Harris stood at the edge of a muddy ravine, studying the…
The solution was to maintain speed and momentum. The second panther entered the false crust 2. 1 seconds after the first. It fell, struck stakes,…

Across the Pacific, from the Philippines to Okinawa, from airfields in France to supply depots in Germany, hundreds of thousands of American jeeps sit in…

She cleaned her father’s barn after his death. The day her father’s will was read, Maya’s world collapsed. Her white step siblings got the mansions,…

May 1944, Camp Alona, Iowa. A train grinds to a halt, steel shrieking against the prairie silence. The doors slide open and Hans Richtor steps…

A French mayor sent a letter to one of the most aggressive commanders in the entire Allied army. The letter said essentially, “Do not come…
