From a question asked in disbelief by an exhausted American general to his British prime minister to a doctrine that shaped armored warfare for the…

June 6th, 1944. 6:31 a. m. Omaha Beach, Normandy, France. The first shell hit before the ramp dropped. Private James Callahan, a 22-year-old factory welder…
It was shame. Not shame at what Patton had done. Shame at what he’d had to pretend not to be. I just told 47 reporters…
And in the southern approach to Baston, the German command believed they had finally stopped Patton’s relief column. Captain William Dwight of the 37th Tank…
It is Guring’s turn to testify and to answer the questions of Justice Robert Jackson, United States prosecutor. Jackson had been appointed US Attorney General…

Commanderin-chief of the Luftwaffer, Germany’s air force. Hitler’s anointed successor, [Applause] Herman Guring, was a larger than-l life drug addict and poser. He had been…

June 24th, 1944. 0847 hours. 8,000 ft over Euoima. Warrant officer Saburo Sakai banks his zero fighter left, scanning the sky through his one good…
Sakai dies on an American naval base, honored by the same Navy whose Hellcat pilots proved to him 56 years earlier that individual courage cannot…
There was a skylight on top of the gas chamber, and there was always a man, sometimes in green uniforms, sometimes in disinfection gear, climbing…
Though later historians have revised these numbers downward, the current scholarly consensus places the number killed at Awitz at about 1. 1 million. H’s confession…


