At 2:30 in the morning on April 9th, 1943, Captain William Das crawled through a drainage ditch at the perimeter fence of Devo…
At 2:30 in the morning on April 4th, 1943, Master Sergeant Jack Hawkins crawled through a drainage ditch 40 yards from the perimeter…
January 7th, 1945. Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, Versailles. Eisenhower’s office is colder than the winter outside. He sits alone at his desk,…
March 26th, 1945. Three German generals are screaming into telephones. Army Group B is fleeing northeast. First parachute army is running east.…
On March 27th, 1945, at half past 2 in the afternoon, a German regimenal commander steps out of his headquarters building with a…
Jag Panther, Germany’s perfect tank destroyer arrives too late. Normandy, summer 1944. In a lane hemmed by hedgerros, a shadowed casemate pivots without…
The first time it hit, the crew of a Panther tank didn’t even hear the shot. There was a flash, a hiss,…
July 27th, 1944. Near Sandilagast, Normandy, France, the 88 mm shell punched through the Sherman’s hull with a metallic shriek that should have…
February 20th, 1943, north of Casarin Pass, Tunisia. The battle report would never fully capture what the German tank commanders witnessed that morning.…