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24th of July, 1943, 24,000 ft above the North Sea, Flight Lieutenant James Marx grips the stopwatch in his gloved hand, watching the seconds tick…

March 15, 1943. The North Atlantic, 40 nautical miles southwest of Iceland. The seas run gray and cold beneath a March sky that promises snow….

March 14th, 1943, North Atlantic, 380 mi southwest of Iceland. The crew of HMS Starling, a British riverclass frigot, watched their sonar operator’s face go…

June 15th, 1944. The Norman Boage, three miles south of Villa’s Boage. A Panza officer peers through his periscope at the narrow lane ahead. Hedge…

October 1944. The skies over Belgium are a gray freezing canvas where men die in variables of seconds and inches. A lone P-51D Mustang painted…

Previously, we compared America’s two most iconic Pacific War fighters, the F4U Corsair and the F6F Hellcat. Drawing the conclusion that the Hellcat with its…

In 1937, the US Army Air Corps issued a challenge. Build a fighter fast enough to intercept enemy bombers at 20,000 ft. While most aircraft…

October 14th, 1943. 5 miles above the Earth, deep inside the hostile airspace of the German Reich, Staff Sergeant Michael Romano is crouching inside a…

March 1945. A field outside Beerfeld, Western Germany. Wreckage of a shot down Lancaster bomber scattered across frozen mud. German Luftwaffa engineer Walter crouches beside…