World War II

General Eichelberger, a man of quiet competence and strategic brilliance, emerged as an under-recognized hero during World War II.

The German Mosquito, the Ta 154, mimicked British design but a glue shortage and resource woes grounded its night fighter dream.

Alan Magee fell 22,000 feet from a B-17 without a parachute, crashed through a train station roof in France, and survived.

At treetop height over the Coral Sea, with fuel gauges bleeding toward empty and silence enforced by secrets that could not survive daylight, a handful of P-38 pilots flew straight into history to cut down the architect of Pearl Harbor.

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All hell broke loose over Bavaria as Eduard Schallmoser, a 21-year-old Me 262 hotshot handpicked to fly wingman for Adolf “Dolfo” Galland, came screaming up from six o’clock on a B-26 formation, guns blazing and metal shredding, until he clipped a Marauder’s prop and somehow lived long enough to earn the only nickname that fit: “The Rammer.”

Tibor Rubin endured the Holocaust, chose to fight for the country that freed him, and risked death repeatedly in Korea, proving that moral courage can survive even when everything else is stripped away.

He was a sharecropper’s son from Lepanto who spent the day after Christmas turning a Belgian roadside into a firing range for German 88s, dragging wounded men out of the kill zone like he was collecting debts in the snow, and walking away with a kind of courage you cannot wrap, tag, or put under a tree.

Emil “Bully” Lang’s record-shattering day in the skies ended in a chaotic clash where fate, firepower, and a young Spitfire pilot converged in one of World War II’s most improbable encounters.

The last time a rising power gambled on a surprise strike to shove America out of the Pacific, it torched an anchored fleet, killed 2,403 Americans, and rewired the world order overnight.

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