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The contrail streen February sky over northern Germany as overlightenetant France Stigler rolled his Messmid BF109 into position behind what he assumed would be an…

A B29 Superfortress is not supposed to stay airborne on one engine. 8 hours from the nearest land, a crippled bomber crawls over the Pacific,…

At 6:47 a.m, on August 1st, 1943, Lieutenant Colonel Addison Baker and Major John Gerstad climbed into B24 Liberator Hell’s Wench at Benghazi airfield in…

At 07:30 on October 24th, 1944, Commander David McCambell climbed into the cockpit of his F6F5 Hellcat on the flight deck of USS Essex, watching…

  By the autumn of 1944, a grim reality had set in for the American tanker in Europe. The M4 Sherman, the reliable workhorse of…

At 06:15 on January 30th, 1944, First Lieutenant Robert Hansen strapped into the cockpit of his F4U1 Corsair at Pea North airfield, watching 18 Grumman…

December 29th, 1944. Versailles. General Dwight Eisenhower reads a telegram from British Field Marshall Montgomery for the third time. It’s not a request, it’s an…

  Lieutenant Robert Johnson saw the flash of sunlight on metal above him and knew instantly what it meant. 16 Faka Wolf 190s were diving…

  At 0615 on July 30th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Michael Aruth crawled into the tail position of B17 Tandleo at RAF Kimolton, watching a gray…