
In the freezing skies over a wartorrn continent, a lone gunner is about to make a choice. It’s a choice that everyone from his commanders…

March 6th, 1944, approximately 1,130 hours central European time. Altitude 23,000 ft over central Germany, a Boeing B17G flying fortress from the 100th Bomb Group,…

In March of 1943, maintenance logs from Republic Aviation’s Farmingdale facility recorded an unusual complaint. Test pilots flying the new P47 Thunderbolt reported a strange…

June 6th, 1944 0130 hours. General Major Wilhelm Fi, commander of the German 91st Division, receives an impossible phone call from his headquarters in Picavville.…

The other Allied commanders thought he was either lying or had lost his mind. The Germans were laughing, too. Hitler’s surprise attack had just ripped…

April 8th, 1,943 27,000 ft above occupied France. The sky was a cruel silver ocean, thin, cold, and endless. A German ace, obelutinant Ralph Hermission,…

May 1945, Lechfeld Airfield, Bavaria. A quiet hum fills the air as an American test pilot cuts the engine of his P47 Thunderbolt and climbs…

December 19th, 1944. General Eisenhower’s headquarters, Verdun. The room smelled of wet wool and cigarette smoke. Outside, German tanks were tearing through the Arden, creating…

North Atlantic spring 1943. Corvette and Capitan Hansim Schwank, commander of U43, breaks radio silence to report a convoy. Convoy cited. Position 52° 14 minutes…

He does not retreat, he does not surrender, he dies on the spot. This sentence, a German officer of the 18th Army wrote in his…

