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November 20th, 1943. Private Don Crane is 19 years old from Montana, sitting in the driver’s seat of an armored amphibious tractor called LVT41, nicknamed…

March 7th, 1945, 3:30 in the afternoon. Captain Carl Fzenhan stands at the eastern end of the Ludenorf Bridge in Reumagen, Germany, holding a detonator….

October 20th, 1944. Lee Island, the Philippines. The camera is already rolling when the ramp of a small landing craft drops into kneedeep surf. The…

May 22nd, 1944, 3:40 in the morning. The Pacific Ocean north of the Admiral Ty Islands is black, warm, and absolutely silent. Aboard a Japanese…

The doctrine of the shoulder fired anti-tank rocket launcher that Skinner and Ool had pioneered in 1942 became the standard infantry approach for the rest…

Berlin, spring of 1943. A woodpanled office at the Heris Fafen, the German Army Weapons Office. On the desk, lying like a dead snake on…

October 9th, 1943. A muddy estate field at Norholm near the Danish town of Varde. The morning fog has just lifted and a 29-year-old Luftvafa…

It got there because somewhere behind it, in a canvas tent in a Belgian field at 3:00 in the morning in December 1944, a tired…

November 8th, 1944. A muddy field outside the French village of Singling in the Lraine. A Sherman tank named Cobra King sits at the end…