
December 1943. Truck Lagoon, Caroline Islands. The submarine sat motionless at periscope depth 40 ft beneath the surface. Inside USS Harter, 79 men held their…

It is 27th May 1941 and the Atlantic Ocean churns beneath a sky the color of wet slate. Aboard HMS Ark Royal somewhere west of…

15th of September 1943, a Belgian railway sighting three kilometers east of Neore. The night freight to Germany sits motionless under a moonless sky. 47…

24th of July, 1943, 24,000 ft above the North Sea, Flight Lieutenant James Marx grips the stopwatch in his gloved hand, watching the seconds tick…

March 15, 1943. The North Atlantic, 40 nautical miles southwest of Iceland. The seas run gray and cold beneath a March sky that promises snow.…

March 14th, 1943, North Atlantic, 380 mi southwest of Iceland. The crew of HMS Starling, a British riverclass frigot, watched their sonar operator’s face go…

June 15th, 1944. The Norman Boage, three miles south of Villa’s Boage. A Panza officer peers through his periscope at the narrow lane ahead. Hedge…

October 1944. The skies over Belgium are a gray freezing canvas where men die in variables of seconds and inches. A lone P-51D Mustang painted…

Previously, we compared America’s two most iconic Pacific War fighters, the F4U Corsair and the F6F Hellcat. Drawing the conclusion that the Hellcat with its…

In 1937, the US Army Air Corps issued a challenge. Build a fighter fast enough to intercept enemy bombers at 20,000 ft. While most aircraft…





