
April 14th, 1942. Brooklyn Navyyard, dry dock number three. The welding torch in Frank Genevvesy’s hand trembled slightly as he prepared to make a modification…

March 4th, 1944, 28,000 ft above Berlin. Captain Don Gentile’s fuel gauge read dangerously low, his P-51 Mustang had escorted B17 bombers from England to…

December 3rd, 1944. Herken Forest, Germany. The German machine gunner from the 326th Vulks Grenadier Division lined up his MG42 on the advancing American infantry.…

June 23rd, 1944. 6:45 in the evening, P Camp Hearn, Texas. Oberg gave rider Klaus Wabber couldn’t contain his laughter as he read the work…

August 14th, 1942. Detroit tank arsenal. Warren, Michigan. Plant manager John Cars Caden stood in the middle of the cavernous factory floor, stopwatch in hand,…

May 1941, the North Atlantic, a 50,300 ton battleship, the most powerful warship in European waters, had just destroyed HMS Hood in under 3 minutes.…

December 17th, 1944. 600 hours. Meldy Crossroads, Belgium. The temperature had dropped to 18° Fahrenheit when Ober Lieutenant Verner Poetski heard a sound that made…

The sound comes back to him in the hospice bed. Metal scraping concrete, [music] then dirt, then something heavier, the wet sound of earth being…

The phone call came at 2:47 in the afternoon. Michelle Kemp’s voice was shaking. She told her mother-in-law that someone wanted her to sign blank…

Thomas Riley had inspected Boston’s infrastructure for 23 years, but nothing prepared him for what Hurricane Andrew would force him to find in August 1992.…





