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At 10:47 a.m. on February 1st, 1944, Second Lieutenant John Cronin pulls back on the yolk of his B24 Liberator over Lind, Austria. Climbing through…

At 2:47 p.m. on April 1st, 1945, Captain Robert Rosenthal drops his P-51D Mustang through broken clouds at 8,000 ft over occupied France, 60 mi…

In August 1942 in the Southwest Pacific theater, military engineers were adamant adding 850 caliber machine guns to the nose of a B25 Mitchell medium…

February 23rd, 1943, 22,000 ft above the Tunisian desert, Staff Sergeant Robert Bobby McKenzie crouches in the tail gunner position of his B17 flying fortress,…

Normandy, June 1944. A single strand of wire stretched at ankle height across a ruted farm road would stop 56 tons of German armor in…

March 4th, 1944. 25,000 ft above Berlin. For the first time in history, American fighter planes circle over the Nazi capital. Not reconnaissance aircraft sneaking…

April 8th, 1945. The skies over Germany. A single American fighter, battered, riddled with flag holes, one landing gear half shredded, limps back toward Allied…

March 15th, 1943. The North Atlantic, 400 miles southwest of Iceland. The sea is iron gray beneath low clouds. And Yubot commander Capitan Litnant Hans…

April 18th, 1943, high above the jungles of Buganville, Admiral Isuroku Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbor, the most brilliant naval mind Japan had ever…