Category: News

At 11:37 on February 20th, 1944, First Lieutenant William Loi sat in the left seat of a B17 Flying Fortress, climbing through 12,000 ft over…

The engine dies. Staff Sergeant Lafayette P sits frozen in the commander’s cupula of his M4 Sherman tank, hand still on the radio switch. Through…

May 3rd, 1943. North Atlantic, 300 kilometers west of the Hebdes. The gray water churns as Capitan Liten and Verer Hanka brings U515 to periscope…

At 0615 on September 20th, 1944, Major Charles Carpenter crouched beside his Piper L4 Grasshopper on a muddy airirstrip near Aracord, France, watching fog roll…

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 8:44 a.m. on June 15th, 1944, First Lieutenant Frank Tachsky crouched in a Higgins boat 300 yards from Saipan’s southern beaches as Japanese artillery…

They called him Baby Face, a 19-year-old replacement pilot fresh from statesside training, sent to the most brutal fighter group in the 8th Air Force….

At 06.15 on September 20th, 1944, Major Charles Carpenter crouched beside his Piper L4 Grasshopper on a muddy airirstrip near Aracord, France, watching fog roll…

March 1943. Over the Mediterranean, a German ace lines up the kill. His wingman closes the trap. Between them, a lone American pilot in a…