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 Japanese Zero fighters climbed toward him from...
November 6th, 1982. 6:45 in the morning. Beverly Sunset Hotel, Los Angeles. A woman collapsed in the lobby, legs bruised, speech slurred, barely conscious. Hotel staff called paramedics. They rushed...
At 9:27 a.m. on December 13th, 1943, Second Lieutenant Philip Adair pulled his Curtis P40N Warhawk into a climbing turn over Assam, India as 64 Japanese aircraft materialized through...
At 6:58 a.m. on October 25th, 1944, lookouts aboard USS Samuel B. Roberts spotted four Japanese battleships emerging 15 mi northwest as the destroyer escort steamed off Samar Island,...
At 1427 on June 14th, 1944, Sergeant Gordon Harris crouched inside his Sherman Firefly at the eastern edge of Lingra’s Normandy, watching five German Panther tanks advance across open...
At 6:47 a.m. on December 18th, 1944, Staff Sergeant Thomas McKinley, watched his best friend die for the stupidest reason imaginable. Corporal Eddie Martinez, 22 years old, El Pasoborn,...
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...
At 11:32 on the morning of December 20th, 1943, Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown gripped the controls of his B17 bomber over Bremen, Germany, watching 250 flat guns open fire...
At 0700 on January 24th, 1945, First Lieutenant Garland Merl Connor stood in the frozen command post of Third Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, watching German artillery shells destroy the...
Beverly Hills, California, March 7th, 1968, 4:15 p.m. Dean Martin was reading his mail. This was unusual. Dean almost never read his own mail. He had people for that, assistants...