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At 10 in the morning on December 20th, 1941, pilot Bert Chrisman crouched in the cockpit of his P40 Warhawk, watching a nightmare unfold in…

May 18th, 1944. Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea. Private First Class. Harold Moon crouches behind a shattered palm tree as machine gun fire tears through…

April 15th, 1944. North Atlantic 0847 hours. Boom. The first explosion ripped through the freezing water at 200 ft below the surface. Inside U448, 44…

On a frigid afternoon in December 1944, deep inside a temporary American interrogation center in the Arden, a captured German officer, General Major Carl Adolf…

England. February 1945. Rain hammered the metal roofs of the eighth air force depot at Leon like angry fingers on tin. The war was still…

September 15th, 1940. 11:47 a.m. 23,000 ft above Kent, England. Squadron leader Douglas Bader banks his Hawker Hurricane hard left as Tracer round slice through…

March 17th, 1943. North Atlantic, 400 m south of Iceland. Convoy HX229 plows through 15t swells, 41 merchant ships laden with 140,000 tons of cargo…

November 8th, 1942. Operation Torch Beaches, North Africa. American GIS crouch behind sand dunes as German panzer fees thunder across the desert. Their 75 millimeter…

August 1944, the Allied breakthrough at Normandy has shattered German defenses across France. General George Patton’s third army is racing eastward at speeds no military…