November 10th 1943 afternoon air probonger Germany’s primary Luftvafa aircraft testing facility Hman Hans vere chief test pilot walked across the tarmac toward…
At 8,000 ft over Dover Harbor, a group of FW190s owned the sky. The English coast spread below them, defenseless. Then a British…
The sky was thin and brittle at that altitude. A pale field of cold light stretching above the clouds. Through the canopy…
September 15th, 1940, 11:47 in the morning, 22,000 ft above the Kent countryside, pilot officer Colin Gray had a Messor Schmidt BF109 dead…
March 17th, 1941. 037 hours. The North Atlantic, 40 mi northeast of Ireland. Commander Donald McIntyre stands rigid on the bridge of HMS…
On the night of July 25th, 1944 at 11:17, Seaman Firstclass Mickey Torino crouched behind a sandbagged machine gun position near the…
This is the 8.8 cm flack gun. A weapon built to fight the sky, yet feared most on the ground. Its shells tore…
December 1,944, eastern France, near the German border. A Tiger 1 commander named Hedman Klaus Brener watched through his periscope as his…
At 11:47 p.m. on March 14th, 1944, Sergeant William Bill Hartley crouched in a bombedout factory basement outside Casino, Italy, staring at what…
They Told the Old Sniper Modern Bullets Were Better — He Showed Them Why Grain Weight Matters More D
The young sergeant laughed out loud. He actually laughed. Right there on the firing line in front of everyone, he looked at…