You are standing in a war room somewhere in France. It is late November 1944. The walls are bare plaster or canvas stretched…
January 8th, 1945. Luxembourg city, Luxembourg. General Omar Bradley sits in his headquarters reading newspaper reports from Belgium. His face reens. His hands…
Here, the Luftwaffer anticipated that the HS129 would be essential in countering the dense concentrations of Soviet armor, which included large numbers of…
It was stocky. It was cramped. It had a face only a mother could love. And it was armed with enough firepower to…
it is the early summer of 1944 and both sides of the battle in Europe can feel the fight approaching a crucial moment…
When the P38 Lightning first slashed across Pacific skies, Japanese pilots didn’t know whether to laugh or worry. With its bizarre twin boom…
September 1944, above Borneo, Major Richard Ira Bong eased his P38 Lightning into a shallow dive. Twin Allison engines purring with 3,000 combined…
At 09:14 on the morning of August 22nd, 1944, Corporal Roy Tanner told Lieutenant Briggs he could stop the German advance across that…
December 1944, the Ardennes Forest, Belgium. Winter had turned brutal. Patton’s infantrymen were dug into frozen foxholes, no heat, no shelter. Men were…
The International Hotel, Las Vegas, August 23rd, 1970. 2,200 bodies arranged into the exhibit a short addition electric Elvis performance. But sitting avant-garde…