
June 6th, 1944. 0523 hours, Offsord Beach, Normandy. HMS Roberts trained her twin 15-in guns toward the German battery at Holgate, perched on a cliff…

March 1945, the west bank of the Rine near Remigan. American engineers worked frantically to expand their bridge head after capturing the Ludenorf Bridge intact,…

June 1950, fighting vehicles proving establishment. Churchy Surrey. A squat four-w wheeled machine rolls off a transport truck for its first official trials. It weighs…

May 23rd, 1940. Oberloitant France Stigler banks his messes BF 109 over the French coast near Calala, scanning the sky above the smoke rising from…

The air in Glacier National Park is sharp and thin, scented with pine and the faint cool trace of snow that lingers even in summer…

It is 22nd June 1943. Off the Dutch coast between the Hag and Denhelder, a German convoy pushes south through gray North Sea waters. There…

May 3rd, 1945. A dirt road in northern Germany. An American checkpoint near the village of Schwarzenbeck. A black Mercedes pulls to a stop. Behind…

In April 2010, two Bright College students left their dorm for what should have been a typical Friday night out with friends, but they never…

Commanders asked for the Smatchet by name for one simple reason. It had nothing to do with stories, fame, or legends from battle. The reason…

September 2024. Two hikers stand frozen on a windswept ridge, staring at something that shouldn’t exist. Lars Ericson and Maria Holst had come to this…




