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She was taught that American soldiers would violate her before sunrise. But when sunrise came, the only thing she received was a cup of hot…

April 13, 1940. The offjord, northern Norway. Five British tribalclass destroyers, HMS Cosac, Bedawin, Punjabi, Eskimo, and seek push into the narrow fjord at 30…

Lie on this table, don’t scream. Five words, English. But Ko Tanaka heard them in Japanese, translated by the voice she’d been warned about for…

July 25th, 1944. 0850 hours. General Litnant Fritz Berline crouched in the rubble of what had been his forward command post. The bombing had been…

January 15th, 1945. Eric Hartman, the Luftvafa’s greatest fighter pilot with 352 confirmed aerial victories, more than any pilot in human history, was returning to…

October 1941, RAF Duxford. Pilots of 601 Squadron, the famous Millionaires Squadron gathered around their new American fighters. These were Battle of Britain veterans, men…

The road was empty. It was a clear afternoon in the summer of 1944, and a woman was cycling alone through the French countryside. She…

There is a story buried inside the history of World War II aviation that almost nobody tells in full. It begins with a passenger plane…

On the night of the 9th of November 1941, somewhere in the dark waters between Sicily and North Africa, seven ships were burning on the…