July 7th, 1944, Saipan. They prop a dying sergeant against a tree. He can’t walk, can’t be carried. Three to 5,000 Japanese soldiers…
January 8th, 1968. Vietnam mud rotor wash. The smell of jet fuel and copper. Something burning. A helicopter is broken open in the…
This tank had two main enemies. The first was called the T34, and the Tiger could handle it without much trouble. Its shells…
October 1942, Lalamagne, the 66th Mortar Company, Royal Engineers, has just received its new weapons. These mortars look nothing like the lightweight tubes…
Early 1942, the Aian Sea in waters the Italian Navy believed it controlled. A typical gun action looked like this. A British T-class…
1941, a remote estate on Scotland’s western coast. Inside a converted hunting lodge, a 56-year-old man with knife scars covering his hands, arms,…
On a frigid afternoon in December 1944, deep inside a temporary American interrogation center in the Arden, a captured German officer, General Major…
November 12th, 1944, 8:50 a.m. The Toms fjord, northern Norway. Capitan Ser Robert Vber stood on the bridge of the battleship Tits, watching…
January 1st, 1945. 0400 hours. The world is watching the Arden. General Patton is hammering the southern flank of the German bulge. The…
July 17th, 1944. Field Marshal Irwin RML was absolutely certain he could still control the battle for Normandy. He had survived minefields in…