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September 1944, above Borneo, Major Richard Ira Bong eased his P38 Lightning into a shallow dive. Twin Allison engines purring with 3,000 combined horsepower as…

Declassified. 1944. High above the sweltering jungles of the Pacific, a lone predator scans the skies. Below him, Japanese fighters claw for altitude, desperate to…

Japan’s godlike zero aces roared with contempt at the grotesque American monster Hellcat. Then were exterminated in the Mariana’s cataclysmic aerial holocaust. June 19th, 1944,…

At exactly 1437 hours, March 18th, 1945, Captain Chuck Joerger spotted the jet Me262, Germany’s secret weapon, flying at 550 mph, 200 mph, faster than…

14,000 ft over the Hurchin Forest. October 12, 1944. Second Lieutenant David Deacon Miller is sweating. It is freezing in the cockpit of his P-51D…

At 11:47 a.m. on November 29th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Eugene Moran huddled in the cramped tail of B7F Ricky Tiki. The sky above Bremen was…

The morning of April 18th, 1942 dawned cold and gray over the deck of the USS Hornet. The Pacific wind carried salt and diesel fumes…

The sky was quiet in a way that only war can make it. A thin blue silence stretched over a world tearing itself apart. Inside…

August 15th, 1940. The waters of the English Channel shimmer beneath a cloudless sky. A Hankle E11 bomber, one of 18 crossing toward Portsmouth, banks…