At 8,000 ft over Dover Harbor, a group of FW190s owned the sky. The English coast spread below them, defenseless. Then a British fighter appeared, closing fast. It had a...
The sky was thin and brittle at that altitude. A pale field of cold light stretching above the clouds. Through the canopy of a German fighter, a lone pilot...
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 in his sights. 400 yd, closing fast....
March 17th, 1941. 037 hours. The North Atlantic, 40 mi northeast of Ireland. Commander Donald McIntyre stands rigid on the bridge of HMS Walker, his knuckles white against frozen steel....
In a viral moment that has ignited fierce debate across social media, comedian Tracy Morgan found himself face-to-face with a ghost from his past: his childhood bully. But this wasn’t...
Colonel George Bud Day, a man who had already pushed past Impossible. He was a World War II marine gunner, a jet pilot in Korea, and the only soul to...
On the night of July 25th, 1944 at 11:17, Seaman Firstclass Mickey Torino crouched behind a sandbagged machine gun position near the Third Medical Battalion aid station on Guam,...
This is the 8.8 cm flack gun. A weapon built to fight the sky, yet feared most on the ground. Its shells tore through armor at distances other guns could...
December 1,944, eastern France, near the German border. A Tiger 1 commander named Hedman Klaus Brener watched through his periscope as his tank’s frontal armor, 100 mm of face...
January 24th, 1947 in Bgrade. Wilhelm Fuks was hanged. He did not die because he lost a battle, nor from a gunshot wound on the field. His death stemmed from...