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At 0100 hours on November 15th, 1942, USS Washington’s radar operators watched a large contact appear on their SG surface search radar scope, range 8,400…

Her speed dropped from 20 knots to 15 then to 10. The ship was dying. The fourth salvo fired at 010130. Two more penetrating hits…

March 9th, 1945. Marana Islands, Pacific Ocean. Sunset approaches over American airfields on Guam, Saipan, and Tinian. On runways stretching across captured Japanese territory, ground…

March 17th, 1943. Recklin Experimental Airfield, Germany. The pilot’s hand trembled slightly as Hans Vera Leasher entered the first notation in his log book, recording…

They walked completely around the fortress, examining it from every angle and noting the gun positions and their fields of fire. They climbed inside through…

November 8th, 1942. Sidi Feruk Beach, Algeria. The first American infantry units waded ashore in North Africa, carrying a weapon that would revolutionize warfare, though…

September 19th, 1944 0615 hours near Aracort, Eastern France. The morning fog hung thick over the Lraine countryside as the Panthers of the 113th Panza…

November 18th, 1942, above Henderson Field, Guadal Canal, the hands of an unnamed Japanese Zero pilot tightened on  his control stick as he watched the…

It was about production philosophy, industrial capacity, and the mathematics of modern war. Germany lost the war in the factories of Detroit long before they…