The sky was thin and brittle at that altitude. A pale field of cold light stretching above the clouds. Through the canopy…
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…
March 17th, 1941. 037 hours. The North Atlantic, 40 mi northeast of Ireland. Commander Donald McIntyre stands rigid on the bridge of HMS…
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…
Colonel George Bud Day, a man who had already pushed past Impossible. He was a World War II marine gunner, a jet pilot…
On the night of July 25th, 1944 at 11:17, Seaman Firstclass Mickey Torino crouched behind a sandbagged machine gun position near the…
This is the 8.8 cm flack gun. A weapon built to fight the sky, yet feared most on the ground. Its shells tore…
December 1,944, eastern France, near the German border. A Tiger 1 commander named Hedman Klaus Brener watched through his periscope as his…
January 24th, 1947 in Bgrade. Wilhelm Fuks was hanged. He did not die because he lost a battle, nor from a gunshot wound…