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Somewhere over occupied France, a teenage pilot yanks the wrong lever in a screaming dive. His thunderbolt flips inverted. Enemy fighters peel away in confusion….

At a.m. on May 8th, 1942, Lieutenant Junior Grade Stanley Vatasa strapped into his Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber on the flight deck of USS…

July 25th, 1944. Normandy. The air is thick, humid, and deceptively quiet. To the naked eye, the hedros west of St. Low look like nothing…

At 0530 on December 16th, 1944, First Lieutenant Lyall Bu crouched in a frozen foxhole on Lanzeroth Ridge, watching a column of 500 German paratroopers…

At a.m. on July 14th, 1944, First Lieutenant Evald Swanson sat in the cockpit of a B17G flying fortress nicknamed Mispa, watching black clouds of…

At 1420 on November 2nd, 1944, First Lieutenant Bruce Carr felt his P-51D Mustang shudder as German anti-aircraft fire ripped through the engine over Czechoslovakia,…

At 0900 on February 26th, 1945, Private First Class Douglas Jacobson crouched behind volcanic rock on the western slope of Hill 382, watching the bazooka…

October 15th, 1944. hours. Pelu Island. Corporal James Mitchell, 23 years old, presses himself against the coral outcropping as another Japanese bullet sparks off the…

At p.m. March 23rd, 1945, First Lieutenant Frank Deleno, 24 years old, 89 combat missions completed, feels the Northre P61 Black Widow shutter as something…