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June 28th, 1944. Captain Masau Tanaka opened his calculation book for what would become the final entry. The candle light flickered against the stone walls…

At 10 o’clock in the morning on December 23rd, 1941, David Tex Hill sat in the cockpit of a P40 Tomahawk, sweating through his flight…

The Woman Who Burned 14 Plantation Owners Alive in a Coal Furnace Esperanza de Lima (1716) In the year 1716, in a world where the…

Picture this. You’re a fighter pilot, thousands of feet above enemy territory. Your aircraft is shot to pieces, smoke pouring from the engine, and you’re…

Snow settles on the frozen canopy of the Herkin Forest, December 1944. As a young Leftwaffa pilot named Carl Hines Jagger presses his gloved hand…

Alabama (1862) An Enslaved Man Buried His Master And His Four Sons Alive Shocking! In the heart of Alabama, during the turbulent year of 1862,…

In the freezing skies over a wartorrn continent, a lone gunner is about to make a choice. It’s a choice that everyone from his commanders…

March 6th, 1944, approximately 1,130 hours central European time. Altitude 23,000 ft over central Germany, a Boeing B17G flying fortress from the 100th Bomb Group,…

In March of 1943, maintenance logs from Republic Aviation’s Farmingdale facility recorded an unusual complaint. Test pilots flying the new P47 Thunderbolt reported a strange…