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August 1944. Allied forces had landed in Normandy and were pushing toward Germany. Hitler’s empire was collapsing from all sides. And at its center stood…

May 8th, 1945. The war in Europe is over. A 23-year-old German fighter pilot surrenders to American forces. He’s the most successful fighter racece in…

December the 7th, 1941. Pearl Harbor burns. A young Army Airore Corporal named Jacob Deaser hears the news while peeling potatoes. He hurls a potato…

Here’s something strange about war. You can spend your entire life wondering about a man you met for 48 hours. A man who was supposed…

A soldier stayed on a battlefield after his entire company retreated. He spent 12 hours lowering wounded men down a 400 ft cliff, one at…

December 1943, a German fighter pilot spared a crippled American bomber over Germany. 10 men survived because of that choice. Then both pilots went home…

August 9th, 1941, over northern France, a Spitfire piloted by Wing Commander Douglas Ber collides with a German Messid BF 109 during a dog fight….

Lieutenant Herua, an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, was sent in 1944 to garrison a small Philippine island during the final stages of the…

Here’s something you learn in war. Mercy doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t come with fanfare or explanation. And sometimes it arrives from the last person…