At 2:47 a.m. on February 12th, 1943, in the freezing North Atlantic, 340 mi west of Iceland, radio man Secondass Tommy Sullivan crouched…

At 8:47 a.m. on November 3rd, 1944, Private Firstclass Raymond Henry Dalton pressed his cheek against the stock of his Springfield M1903A4 and…

At 12:47 p.m. on March 14th, 1944, Corporal James Jimmy Keller pressed his eye to the scope of his Springfield M1903 at a…

At 7:23 a.m. on June 18th, 1944, Sergeant Jacob Mertens stood in the third floor window of a half-destroyed farmhouse outside Cartown, France.…

December 11th, 1941. Berlin. A gray morning over the Reich capital. The air is sharp, heavy with winter, and heavier still with anticipation.…

In the closing winter of 1944, the Western Front appeared, at least on the surface, to have reached a moment of relative stability.…

The telegram arrived at Pearl Harbor on a muggy afternoon in September 1943, carried by a young enen who looked as though he’d…

At 2:48 in the morning on May 24th, 1941, a British naval officer spotted something through his binoculars that made his blood run…

December 20th, 1943. The skies over Bremen, Germany. Second Lieutenant Charles Chuck Joerger banks his P-51 Mustang hard left as tracer rounds slice…

September 15th, 1940. 11:47 a.m. 23,000 ft above Kent, England. Squadron leader Douglas Bader banks his Hawker Hurricane hard left as Tracer round…