
1938 Guy Motors factory, Wolverampton. British engineers are assembling what will become the most consequential armored car nobody remembers. The vehicle weighs just over five…

March 23rd, 1945. The Ry River near Wessel, Germany. British infantry crouch inside a steel box on wheels as German machine gun fire sparks off…

Imagine you are standing on a grass airfield somewhere in northern France in 1917. The noise hits you first. Not a growl, not a roar,…

November 1942, North Atlantic. A Royal Navy Corvette closes on a sonar contact. AIC pinging steadily against a submerged yubot 400 yd ahead. The captain…

On November 29th, 1943, more than 300 B7 flying fortresses crossed into German airspace heading for Bremen. One of them was a bomber called Ricky…

On the morning of January 14th, 1945, Lieutenant Commander Harold Briggs stood on the deck of LST 457 in the harbor at Laty Gulf, Philippines,…

April 17th, 1945. Dawn breaking over RAF Wormingford, Essex. Lieutenant Colonel Elwin Regetti’s hands moved across the pre-flight checklist with the practice efficiency of a…

November 17th, 1944. The East China Sea, 200 m southeast of Shanghai. Captain Tamichi Hares stood on the bridge of the destroyer Shigar, watching the…

December 14th, 1944. A snow-covered road east of Fry Halddenhovven, Germany. Staff Sergeant Robert Morrison, commander of an M36 Jackson tank destroyer from the 702nd…

The radio operator aboard the Japanese carrier Taihaho strained to hear through the static. 8:30 in the morning, June 19th, 1944. Vice Admiral Jisro Ozawa’s…

