
June 6th, 1944. Somewhere near Ruong, France, the metallic glint of a damaged P-51 Mustang descended through broken cloud cover, its packered Merlin engine trailing…
The ultimate fate of various captured P-51s operated by German forces remains unclear or unknown in several cases due to incomplete records and the chaos…

On January 7, 1942, Adolf Hitler sat at his headquarters in East Prussia and delivered a verdict on America that would seal Germany’s fate. He…
He did not see their capacity for growth, for adaptation, for rising to challenges that seemed insurmountable. He mistook the America of peace time for…

December 16th, 1944. 0530 hours. Shne Eiffel Ridge, Belgian German border. The frozen mud cracked beneath boots as German forces prepared for what would become…

July 27th, 1944. Near Sandilagast, Normandy, France, the 88 mm shell punched through the Sherman’s hull with a metallic shriek that should have spelled death…

December 17th, 1944. A checkpoint outside Iweila, Belgium. The jeep rolled to a stop as the military policeman raised his hand, his breath visible in…

March 1941, Mayor Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. The welding torch flickered in the dim light of the submarine construction bay as Edward Nelson, an…

November 7th, 1943. Karpik airfield, KH, France. The brutal headwinds over the English Channel had consumed fuel at an alarming rate. Second Lieutenant William E.…
The nation that could design adequate equipment and produce it in overwhelming quantities while simultaneously producing everything else a modern military requires would inevitably defeat…

