
At a.m. on February 1st, 1943, First Lieutenant Kendrick Bragg crouched behind the controls of his B7 Flying Fortress over Tunis, watching two German fighters…

At in the afternoon on September 7th, 1943, Major Gregory Boington sat on a crate at the Aspiritu Santo airfield, nursing a hangover that felt…

April 14th, 1945. Late morning light breaking hard over the Philippine Sea. The air smells of salt and engine exhaust, thick and metallic, carried on…

Germany’s Abandoned Tanks: What the Allies Did With Them? In May 1945, as the war in Europe drew to a close, thousands of German tanks…

THE P-51’S SECRET: HOW PACKARD ENGINEERS AMERICANIZED BRITAIN’S MERLIN ENGINE August 2nd, 1941, marked a significant day in the annals of engineering history. Inside the…

September 19th, 1944 0800 hours. Araor, France. Fog rolled across the fields like a living thing, thick and cold, erasing the horizon. In that gray…

June 5th, 1944. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower stood in a room at Southwick House near Portsouth, England, facing the most consequential decision…

Japan Thought Pearl Harbor Was Destroyed — Until U.S. Salvage Teams Fixed It In Record Time May 17th, 1942, marked a pivotal moment in naval…

On December 19, 1944, the war in Western Europe was no longer a matter of clean arrows on orderly maps. It had become a frozen,…

At 11:32 on the morning of November 29th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Eugene Moran knelt in the tail section of a B7 flying fortress named Ricky…

