September 1943, German prisoners of war were about to be shocked by their first sight of Canadian civilians. But first, they had…
April 1945, the Third Reich was dying. In the chaos of Germany’s final collapse, thousands of women wearing Vermached auxiliary uniforms found…
April 1945. The metal chains cut into Greta Hoffman’s wrist as the truck bounced over another hole in the road. She sat…
May 1945, northern Germany. Three German women stood inside a concrete bunker with their hands raised high above their heads. Their gray…
The rain came down in sheets across the long green, turning the red earth to mud and the jungle canopy into a…
The Americans were loud. The Australians, they vanished. And when they returned, men were gone. These weren’t our words. They were theirs.…
To the aces of the Luftvafa, the self-proclaimed masters of the European sky. It was a joke. A asterisk Flegenda Milch Flasher…
At 0700 on October 4th, 1943, Colonel Hubert Zmpy stood on the hard stand at RAF Hailworth watching mechanics fuel 52 Republic…
At 2340 on December 29th, 1944, Major Carol C. Smith crouched in the cramped cockpit of his P61 Black Widow at Meuire…
At 06:15 on January 30th, 1944, First Lieutenant Robert Hansen strapped into the cockpit of his F4U1 Corsair at Pea North airfield,…