The boy saw Dean’s face and his own went white. He dropped the bow, grabbed his violin, and ran, leaving the case and the coins scattered on the pavement. Dean...
At 01:50 on May 19th, 1944, Lieutenant Commander Walton Pendleton stood in the cramped combat information center of USS England, watching his sonar operator track a contact moving at 6...
At 09:00 on February 26th, 1945, Private First Class Douglas Jacobson crouched behind volcanic rock on the western slope of Hill 382, watching the bazooka team ahead of him take...
A man in the front row stood up and screamed a racial slur at Sammy Davis Jr. Samm<unk>s voice cut off midnote. The microphone trembled in his hand and 500...
At 8:44 a.m. on June 15th, 1944, First Lieutenant Frank Tachsky crouched in a Higgins boat 300 yards from Saipan’s southern beaches as Japanese artillery shells exploded in the surf...
A man jumped onto the stage and pulled his fist back to punch Frank Sinatra. Dean Martin dropped the microphone and threw himself between them. A second man leaped up...
At 11:47 a.m. on May 29th, 1943, Captain James Hartwell climbed into the cockpit of his B7 at RAF Alenbury, watching the ground crew load the last belt of 50...
At 2 p.m. hours on October 26th, 1944, Second Lieutenant Audi Murphy crouched in a muddy foxhole in the Voge Mountains of Eastern France, watching the tree line disappear into...
At 10:30 p.m. on October 24th, 1942, Sergeant Mitchell Page crouched in a foxhole on the blackened ridge of Guadal Canal, running his hand over the cold steel breach of...
September 19th, 1944. Captain Jimmy Leech sat in his Sherman tank near the French village of Arakor, staring into a wall of white. The morning fog was so thick he...