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November the 2nd, 1943. 22,000 ft above the Bismar Sea, Staff Sergeant Michael Russo watches the contrails multiply behind his B24 Liberator. 8 12 20…

January 30th, 1944. Southeast of Palao Island, Philippine Sea, 0200 hours, Lieutenant Commander Slade Cutter stands in the Conning Tower of USS Seahorse, 180 ft…

January 17th, 1944, 29,000 ft above the frozen fields of Brunswick, Germany, the air was thin and cold enough to crack bone. Ice crystals formed…

December 25th, 1944. Christmas Day, 1,200 ft above Negros Island, Philippines. Thomas Maguire is inverted at 220 mph, pursuing a Japanese Zero that’s about to…

June 4th, 1942, 10:22 a.m. 25,000 ft above the Pacific Ocean, Lieutenant Richard H. Dick. Best peered down through his SBD Dauntless canopy at four…

August 12th, 1917. The skies above the western front, 15,000 ft over the S Valley. Major Oswald Belelka’s protege, Litnet Verer Voss, pulls his Albatross…

March 16th, 1944, 22,000 ft above the Adriatic Sea, Staff Sergeant Michael Aruth crouched behind the twin 50 caliber Browning machine guns in the tail…

January 1st, 1945. 0920 hours, Y29 Ash Airfield, Belgium. Major George Prey Jr. sprints toward his P-51 Mustang as German fighters strafe the runway. Explosions…

The tropical dawn breaks over Henderson Field, Guadal Canal, February 12th, 1943. Steam rises from the Coral Runway as 24 strangelooking aircraft sit in the…