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At 6:58 a.m. on October 25th, 1944, lookouts aboard USS Samuel B. Roberts spotted four Japanese battleships emerging 15 mi northwest as the destroyer escort…

At 1427 on June 14th, 1944, Sergeant Gordon Harris crouched inside his Sherman Firefly at the eastern edge of Lingra’s Normandy, watching five German Panther…

March 10th, 1945. Tokyo was no longer a city that slept. It was a furnace. From the air, the B-29 superfortresses of the US Army…

In the spring of 1943, a German railway supervisor named Hinrich walked the length of a supply train somewhere in occupied France. He had done…

May 6th, 1945. Remesams, France. A dull, gray, rainy day. In a small red brick schoolhouse, the fate of the world was being decided. This…

At 0700 on March 30th, 1945, Major General Maurice Rose rode in the lead jeep of Task Force Wellbborne, south of Patterborn, Germany, watching the…

March 9th, 1945. 11:48 at night, Major General Seo Arisuer, Chief of Intelligence for the Imperial Japanese Army, stood at the window of his office…

June 4th, 1942, Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo stood on the bridge of the carrier Akagi, watching his aircraft return from their strike against Midway Island….

June 3rd, 1942. Aboard the aircraft carrier Akagi, Vice Admiral Tuichi Nagumo stood on the bridge as his flagship cut through the North Pacific swells….