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North Africa, 1943. A vehicle that shouldn’t exist rumbles across 600 miles of open desert, carrying eight men, four machine guns, and enough fuel to…

1944 the dimmapur to kohima to Ifal road northeast India 130 mi of winding hill track and the only supply route for over 150,000 British…

November 1944. A bottling factory somewhere in Britain. The same floor that once filled soda bottles now assembles rocket launchers. The workers are not ordinance…

October 1942, Lalamagne, the 66th Mortar Company, Royal Engineers, has just received its new weapons. These mortars look nothing like the lightweight tubes infantry carry….

June 6th, 1944. 0523 hours, Offsord Beach, Normandy. HMS Roberts trained her twin 15-in guns toward the German battery at Holgate, perched on a cliff…

March 1945, the west bank of the Rine near Remigan. American engineers worked frantically to expand their bridge head after capturing the Ludenorf Bridge intact,…

June 1950, fighting vehicles proving establishment. Churchy Surrey. A squat four-w wheeled machine rolls off a transport truck for its first official trials. It weighs…

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…

The air in Glacier National Park is sharp and thin, scented with pine and the faint cool trace of snow that lingers even in summer…