Part 1 August 7, 1944. Argentan, France. 0347 hours. A Sherman tank exploded into a 40-ft fireball. The crew never had a chance. The round had punched through the front...
Part 1 At 1731 hours on November 4, 1944, Squadron Leader Branse Burbridge climbed into his Mosquito night fighter at RAF Swannington while German radar emissions flickered across his navigator’s...
The first thing Eva Heartwell saw was the hand. It was not the motorcycle. It was not the smoke curling into the dry Arizona air. It was not even the...
Part 1 On December 19, 1944, the war in Western Europe was no longer a matter of clean arrows on orderly maps. It had become a frozen, grinding nightmare of...
Part 1 At 11:14 a.m. on January 11, 1944, Major James Howard circled his P-51B Mustang 4 miles above Oschersleben, Germany, and watched 30 German fighters dive toward 60 unprotected...
“Please do not let them find my mama.” The words were so small they should have been lost in the heat. The afternoon should have swallowed them whole. The blacktop...
The boy looked too small to be real. He stood under the white gas station lights in Spider-Man pajamas and bare feet, with his shoulders shaking so hard it seemed...
Part 1 At 11:42 on the morning of January 27, 1945, Staff Sergeant Robert Chen crouched behind the central fire-control station of B-29 Superfortress Aquare 52 and watched oxygen frost...
Part 1 On June 12, 1945, the war in Europe had been over for more than a month. For 23 German women stepping down from a military transport truck into...
Part 1 They had told Helga Weiss exactly what would happen if the Americans saw her hand. They had told her this in the truck, in the mud, in the...