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June 4th, 1942, 10:25 in the morning, 300 m northwest of Midway Island, Admiral Nagumo Chuichi stood on the bridge of the aircraft carrier Akagi,…

July 3rd, 1940. The harbor at Meers Elbia shimmers in the late afternoon heat. The water so still it mirrors the hulls of four French…

He saw the attack as confirmation of several things he had long believed. first that the British were as ruthless as he was, willing to…

May 23rd, 1940. Oberloitant France Stigler banks his messes BF 109 over the French coast near Calala, scanning the sky above the smoke rising from…

some with anger at their commanders for underestimating the enemy, but they all said essentially the same thing. The Spitfire was not supposed to exist….

June 15th, 1944. Captain Saddow Yamaguchi pushed his K43 fighter higher, the engine screaming, the controls growing mushy as the air thinned. At 28,000 ft,…

On the night of March 13th attacking Osaka, the Americans lost two bombers to fighters and flank, but 172 others completed their mission, burning eight…

May 1st, 1945, 10:26 p.m. The radio crackles in a basement in Hamburg where 17 people crowd around a single receiver, faces illuminated by candle…

Germany in May 1945 is not one nation with one reaction. It is millions of individuals, each alone with their own reckoning. In a cellar…