
At 9:17 on the morning of January 22nd, 1943, Second Lieutenant John George settled into the…

June 12th, 1945. Somewhere in Texas, the coals hissed beneath strips of pork. Smoke curled upward…

June 24th, 1944, Camp Hearn, Texas. The heat struck like a physical blow. Clara Richter stood on…

June 15th, 1944. 10 Downing Street, London. 9 days after D-Day, the room smells of cigar smoke…

December 19th, 1944, a converted French army barracks in Verdd, France. The most powerful generals in the…

August 17th, 1945. Selenus Valley, California. The canvas sides of the military truck rattled as 50…

July 9th, 1944. Northern Saipan, Mariana Islands. The capsule felt impossibly small in her palm, no…

April 17th, 1945. A muddy ditch outside Hybrun, Germany. The air smells of cordite and wet earth….

August 4th, 1944. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Versailles, France. The message arrived at 0847 hours….

March 12th, 1945. Fort Sam, Houston, Texas. The American medic stared at the girl’s hands and …

October 18th, 1944. The Vostas Mountains, Eastern France. Daniel Yazy stood at the treeine, watching darkness …

September 14th, 1945. A detention facility near Nottingham, England. The knock came at dawn. Not the …

June 18th, 1945. Okinawa. The sun burned white against corrugated metal roofs. Sergeant James Williams stood…

October 11th, 1945, San Francisco Bay. The transport ship’s engines shuddered to silence as 257 Japanese…

September 12th, 1945. Mid-Atlantic. The converted troop ship rolled through autumn swells, its hall groaning with…

July 1945, Camp Livingston, Louisiana. The air hung thick with cypress mist and the slow hum…

September 15th, 1945. San Francisco Bay. The rusted transport vessel cut through Pacific fog like a …

August 9th, 1945. Yokohama. The air thick with ash and silence. Dozens of Japanese women knelt …

July 27th, 1945. Hayes County, Texas. The John Deere model be sat dead in a field of…

August 31st, 1943. Rabul, New Britain. The operations tent smelled of sweat, engine oil, and volcanic…