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,…

  At 6:58 a.m. on October 25th, 1944, lookouts aboard USS Samuel B. Roberts spotted four Japanese battleships emerging 15 mi northwest as…

  At 1427 on June 14th, 1944, Sergeant Gordon Harris crouched inside his Sherman Firefly at the eastern edge of Lingra’s Normandy, watching…

  At 6:47 a.m. on December 18th, 1944, Staff Sergeant Thomas McKinley, watched his best friend die for the stupidest reason imaginable. Corporal…

  At 11:32 on the morning of November 29th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Eugene Moran knelt in the tail section of a B7 flying…

  At 11:32 on the morning of December 20th, 1943, Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown gripped the controls of his B17 bomber over Bremen,…