June 26th, 1944. Helandia Aiг Base, Dutch New Guinea. The checkeгs gaмe sat unfinished as Lieutenant Colonel Chaгles Macdonald looked uρ fгoм the…
At 4:17 a.m. on May the 25th, 1942, in a windowless concrete room at the Fleet Radio Unit Pacific Headquarters in Honolulu, the…
If Patton didn’t move in time, the 101st Airborne would have been wiped out, not captured, not forced to surrender. Wiped out. December…
Lieutenant Alexandra Alex Reeves adjusted her hairet and apron, items that felt foreign compared to the tactical gear she’d worn across three…
August 7th, 1942. 0214 houгs. Guadal Canal, Soloмon Islands. The fiгst Aмeгican Maгines of the Fiгst Diνision waded ashoгe at Beach Red, caггying…
February 1945. Yaltta. The three most powerful men in the world sat in gilded chairs in the Levardia Palace, cameras flashing, smiles fixed…
The nursing home director, who was starving World War II veterans to death, picked the wrong day to slap a 94 yearear-old…
Today, when people look back at the Pacific theatre, there are two American fighter aircraft which are often remembered together. Those are the…
The graveyard should have been empty at dawn, just frostcovered headstones and the distant rumble of highway traffic. But when Jackson Reaper Cain…
They called it unfair. A machine too heavy, too armored, too powerful. But for the men who flew it, it wasn’t unfair. It…