She was a monster of steel, the largest aircraft carrier ever built. So secret that even most of Japan’s navy had never seen…
Somewhere between the canyon ridges and the endless scrubland, where the wind carried dust instead of rain, a man found something he wasn’t…
At 0742 on May 27th, 1940, Captain Jack Churchill crouched behind a crumbling stone wall near the French village of Lepinet, watching five…
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…
August 2nd, 1941, Detroit, Michigan. Inside Packard Motorcar Company’s East Grand Boulevard plant, two Rolls-Royce Merlin engines roared to life on test stands.…
At 2340 on December 29th, 1944, Major Carol C. Smith crouched in the cramped cockpit of his P61 Black Widow at Meuire Field,…
March 6th, 1944, 23,000 ft over Germany, a B7 flying fortress named Hell’s Fury flew deep in enemy airspace. In the tail gun…
My Wife’s Family Mocked My Dad at a Party — They Never Expected the “Poor Old Man” Was a Billionaire
Richard Newman was 34 years old when he watched his wife stand silently while her family humiliated the man who raised him. The…
At 7:42 a.m. on August 17th, 1943, Technical Sergeant James McKenna crouched under the left wing of a P38 Lightning at Doadorura Airfield…
Never go to the farm, Catherine. Promise me. Those words spoken with uncharacteristic intensity were among the few demands my husband Joshua ever…