At 0900 on February 19th, 1945, Corporal Tony Stein crouched behind a shallow depression in the black volcanic sand of Ewima, gripping a weapon his sergeant had called a stupid...
At 11:14 a.m. on January 11th, 1944, Major James Howard circled his P-51B Mustang four miles above Osher Slaben, Germany, watching 30 German fighters dive towards 60 unprotected B17s below....
At 7:42 a.m. on August 17th, 1942, Captain Paul Gun crouched under the wing of a Douglas A20 Havoc at Eagle Farm Airfield near Brisbane, watching mechanics weld 50 caliber...
At 11:32 on the morning of November 29th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Eugene Moran knelt in the tail section of a B7 flying fortress named Ricky Tikitabi, watching German fighters swarm...
At 9:42 a.m. on July 14th, 1944, First Lieutenant Evald Swanson sat in the cockpit of a B17G flying fortress nicknamed Mispa, watching black clouds of flack explode across the...
Why US Marines Hated Fighting Alongside the Army – The Rivalry That Nearly Cost Saipan June 16th 1944. General Holland Smith stood inside his command tent on Saipan, holding a...
What Nimitz Said When MacArthur Demanded His Carriers for the Philippines – King Refused Admiral Chester Nimttz sat in his office reading the most extraordinary message he’d received in three...
Why Eisenhower Took Command Away from Montgomery — at the Height of the War September 1944, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery commanded all Allied ground forces in Europe. Two million soldiers,...
Why Admiral King Banned the Weapon That Was Sinking U-Boats at 3x the Rate – British Begged Him March 1943. A U-boat surfaced in the Bay of Biscay at midnight....
Eisenhower’s SHOCKING Decision Let German Forces Escape December 1944. The Battle of the Bulge was ending. German forces were retreating through a narrow corridor near Bastogne. American commanders wanted to...