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In October 2016, five college friends drove into the Cherokee National Forest for a weekend camping trip, posting selfies from Kayla Dawson’s Black Jeep, laughing…

December 1944. The sky over Germany belongs to the Predators. A lone American P-51 pulls away from formation, trailing smoke. Four Mesa circle like wolves….

The summer air over Brandenburgg shimmers with heat as Halpedman Vera Tierfelder walks toward the fighter sitting on Recklin’s concrete apron. It’s the 20th of…

In 1943, the US Army Air Forces believed the P47 Thunderbolt was a failure. Too heavy, too slow, unable to dogfight. But one commander refused…

January 17th, 1945. 14,000 ft above the frozen patchwork of Bavaria. The air is thin, brittle with cold that seeps through leather and steel alike….

March 3rd, 1943, 22,000 ft above the Vilhelms Haven Peninsula, northern Germany. The cold was absolute. At this altitude, the temperature hovered near 40° below…

March 12th, 1944. Over the skies of Brunswick, Germany. a.m. The sky was impossibly blue. The kind of crystalline cloudless blue that belongs only to…

June 13th, 1944. in the morning, the first V1 flying bomb crossed the English Channel under cover of darkness. Its pulsejet engine roared like a…

March 6th, 1944. in the morning. At 28,000 ft over central Germany, the air is thin and brutally cold. Oxygen masks frost over with each…