The apple hit the dirt and rolled toward the camera, and every person on that set knew John Wayne had just been…

  The bodyguard hit the carpet face first with a sound like a sack of wet sand. And the chair John Wayne was…

  The water hit the temple set like a collapsing building. 15,000 tons all at once. And the screaming didn’t start until the…

  John Wayne was mid-draw in a gunfight scene when he saw the man in the wheelchair behind the set barriers and he…

  That’s how many enemy aircraft these five American pilots shot out of the sky between 1941 and 1945. Not damaged, not probable,…

  North Africa, Tunisia. May 1943. The war in North Africa was over. The last Axis forces had surrendered on May 13th, 1943.…

  In the early hours of June 6th, 1944, German observers along the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy heard the distant rumble of aircraft…

  The air smells like red dust and jet fuel,  and somewhere behind you a jukebox is playing   Creedence Clearwater Revival through …

  At 8:03 a.m. on June 16th, 1943, Captain Jay Zeamer held his B17 steady at 25,000 ft over Bua Island as 16…

  At 9:27 a.m. on December 13th, 1943, Second Lieutenant Philip Adair pulled his Curtis P40N Warhawk into a climbing turn over Assam,…