
It’s the morning of the 7th of November, 1944 and twelve P-38 “Lightnings” soar high over Yugoslavia. Leading the flight…

The first rays of dawn touched the fields of San Isidro as I, Amalia Torres, 76 years old and worn…

My name is Victoria, and until three months ago, I believed that family loyalty meant accepting whatever treatment relatives chose…

At 13:47 on August 17th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Benjamin Warner, age twenty-two, sat curled in the ball turret of B-17F…

Emily lived quietly in Ruth’s small apartment above a laundromat for months. She worked part-time and went to night school…

“We don’t need old men like you dragging us down,” she said, flipping her hair as if dismissing eighteen years…

“Ma’am, please step aside with me for a moment.” Officer Mark Daniels had said those words hundreds of times at…

one of the most dramatic dog fights of World War II Bud Anderson and his P-51 Old Crow against a…

At my sister’s wedding, my seven-year-old suddenly squeezed my hand and whispered, “Mom… we need to leave. Right now.” I…

The air at the Idlewood Country Estate carried that distinctive scent of old money—imported flowers, aged champagne, and something else…

At 05:17 on the morning of September 13th, 1943, Private First Class William J. Crawford lay in a shallow scrape…

I was four months into my final deployment when the message came through. It arrived in the dead of night…

as we started to push over about 20 or 30 Jap’s uh jumped us and it started a dog fight…

70,000 gallons of fuel left the depot in North Africa. 30,000 gallons reached the front. A 57% loss. The quartermaster…

Hannah and I had been best friends since our college days at UCLA. We both came from small towns in…

June 7th, 1944. Just inland from Utah Beach, near Saint-Mère-Église. Oberleutnant Klaus Müller of the German 709th Infantry Division stood…

My mom and sister hosted the kind of over-the-top children’s party that could have been mistaken for a small-town fair….

December 22nd, 1944. 0115 hours. Bône, Belgium. The frozen ground shook with each distant artillery blast as Corporal James Earl…

“You’re just so jealous of your sister,” my dad said, his voice dripping with disappointment. “That’s what this is really…

I gradually became aware of my surroundings again as my thoughts emerged from the fog in my head the dim…