August 17th, 1944. Northern France near Files. The GMC CCCKW sat abandoned on the roadside, its canvas cover torn by shrapnel, engines still…
December 3rd, 1944. Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. The train doors groaned open and cold air rushed in like a blade. Japanese prisoners stepped down…
At 0700 on January 15th, 1944, First Lieutenant Frank Taxki walked through the brig at Marine Corps Base Camp Terawa in Hawaii.…
June 10th, 1945. A cold, gray morning over a barbed wire camp outside Castle, Germany. The air smelled of thin soup, wet…
The wood stove clicks as metal expands in heat, and Sergeant Paul Martinez watches two pairs of eyes track his every movement…
November 12th, 1944. Fort Stockton, Texas. The transport truck shuttered to a stop outside the barbed wire fence. Desert dust settling like…
In the winter of 1944, on the outskirts of a ruined French village near the Herkan Forest, a group of German soldiers…
February 18th, 1945. No known 40 hours. US Army quartermaster depot Q117, Lady Island, Philippines. The diesel rumble hit her first, low,…
Lieutenant Alexandra Alex Reeves adjusted her hairet and apron, items that felt foreign compared to the tactical gear she’d worn across three…
The nursing home director, who was starving World War II veterans to death, picked the wrong day to slap a 94 yearear-old…