July 1944, Aldershot, England. The summer air hung thick and warm inside the Red Lion Pub. Canadian soldiers sat shoulderto-shoulder with American…
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June 11th, 1944. The Indri region of occupied France. A woman stands in a wheat field and counts Germans. She counts them…
Normandy, France, May 1944. A young woman is sitting in a farmhouse kitchen knitting. She looks about 14 years old. Small, slight,…
In the spring of 1940, a German intelligence officer named Nicolas Ritter sat in an office in Berlin and delivered a verdict…
Tunisia, February 1943. Casserine Pass, 3:00 a.m. Feld Webbble Richtor, a veteran of France, of Greece, of the first terrible winter outside…
At 9:17 on the morning of January 22nd, 1943, Second Lieutenant John George crouched in the ruins of a Japanese bunker west…
On the morning of July 26th, 1944, at 0300 hours, First Lieutenant William Putney crouched in a foxhole on Fonte Ridge, Guam,…
May 2019, Afghanistan. A photograph circulates through military circles and firearms forums. In it, America’s top general in Afghanistan, the commander of…
March 31st, 1943. Somewhere over the jungles of Burma, 4,000 ft above the Earth, Second Lieutenant Owen Bagot is hanging in the…
The morning of October 8th, 1918. The Argon Forest, France. The trees are shredded. The mud smells of rot and sulfur. Corporal…