December 7th, 1941, is a day that lives on in history. On that fateful day, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service struck the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, in a surprise attack that left the entire planet reeling. Among the chaos, no-one could have predicted that an RAF pilot would be […]
Time and again the Hurricane pilots had seen that same Zero on the tail of a crippled fighter, shooting up a crash-landed pilot, striking at the defenseless, and striking without mercy. They’d seen it —but that was all. Even the Japanese airfield couldn’t be found, and such was the skill of the Japanese ace that […]
What would you do with a handful of contraband diamonds? Pilot Peter Lawrie and Dutch army officer Bart van Hanegen asked themselves that question —and it didn’t take long to answer it. With Holland being overrun by the Germans, they chose to keep the gems for themselves and try to reach the coast ahead of […]
It is easy for an officer to prove their bravery in battle, less so for a private, and YegorDobryninwas not afraid of anything, even standing up to his corrupt superiors. But Yegor should have been afraid, for soon they decided that he should disappear, with a nefarious plan to send him to Siberia to be […]
They were like nothing so much as lean, hungry, grey wolves. Grey with fear and exhaustion, lean with hardship, and hungry for blood —the blood of the Japanese who forced them to live like hunted beasts. They were men who had survived the invasion of Burma, and fought on in small bands hidden in the […]
Private Lars Ratvik was the worst of all the men in Kompani Reinsdyr, otherwise known as Independent Norwegian Company 1. He couldn’t ski fast, couldn’t arm explosives correctly, he was clumsy and generally useless. But when the chips were down and everything laid on his shoulders, he had to take charge and complete the mission […]
As the German self-propelled guns moved through the snowstorm, thin lines began to appear beneath them and an ominous cracking sound made itself heard. They were on a frozen lake! The panic-stricken crews bailed out as the metal monsters slid through the ice into the waters below. The enemy machines had been led to their […]
In a locked steel cabinet in a Bomber Command office was asecret file which grew thicker every week. Recorded in that document was a baffling tale of mystery —an amazing list of British bombers which had vanished without a trace over the Italian Alps. What had happened to them? Among those icy peaks there were […]
Clive Harrison seemed to be a good bloke to have in your platoon. When the going got tough, he never faltered —and on several occasions it was his quick thinking that saved the day. Why then, if he was such a good soldier, would he suddenly run out on his mates? Story: CG Walker […]
The Nazis defending the town of Gelsenfeld reckoned they were sitting pretty. A treacherous swamp round one side of the town forced the Allies to advance from only one direction —and they had that direction covered by a line of machine‑gun nests. They boasted they could beat off any attack. But they didn’t know they […]
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