Storm over Europe

What Japanese High Command Said When They Counted 100 Essex Carriers — and Japan Had 4 Left.

What Hitler Said When 12,000 B-17s Dropped 640,000 Tons While Luftwaffe Managed 74,000.

How One Woman's 3mm Gasket Fix Prevented 85,000 P&W Engines From Seizing Over Germany.

They Mocked Ford's Tank Plant — Until It Built 1,690 M4A3s a Month and Buried the Panzers.

How One Engineer's 90° Weld Angle Saved 22,000 Liberty Ships From Cracking in Arctic Waters.

What Rommel Said When He Saw 300 Sherman Tanks Arrive in 48 Hours While He Waited 6 Weeks.

Panzer Crews Called Firefly 'Lucky Shot' — 17-Pounder Penetrated Tiger Frontal Armor at 1,500 Yards.

Japanese Couldn't Believe One Corsair — Until 17 Zeros Fell in Just 12 Minutes.

German Female POWs Expected Chains But Found Fresh Bread, Soap & Cowboys Teaching Them English.

Luftwaffe Pilots Couldn't Believe P-47s Survived 200+ Hits—Until They Saw the Engine Design.

How One Welder's "Illegal" 90° Weld Saved 8,200 Sherman Tanks From Exploding Under Fire.

German Tankers Laughed at M4 Shermans Until 76mm Guns Destroyed 47 Panthers in 3 Days.

How One Woman's Hidden Math Error Nearly Destroyed 15,000 Merlin Engines in 60 Days.

Japanese Engineers Examined Captured B-29—Realized America's 2,200 HP Engine Was Impossible.

How One "Fatal" Torpedo Design Flaw In 1942 Cost Japan 200 Merchant Ships.

American Marines Averaged 6 Feet Tall And 180 Pounds — Japanese Soldiers: 5'3" And 120 Pounds.

"We Expected Execution" — German Nurses Shocked When Americans Built Them a Hospital Instead.

Starving Japanese POWs Couldn't Believe Americans Served Steak Three Times a Week.

June 1944 - Rommel Had 72 Hours Before 156,000 Allied Troops Made France Indefensible.

German Gunners Tested Captured M1 Garand — Reported 8 Rounds Per Minute Made Victory Impossible.

Germans Mocked America's "Toy" .30 Cal — Then Browning Fired 40,000 Rounds Without Breaking.

The $44K Sherman vs The $250K Tiger II — 5.7x Cheaper, Outnumbered Them 10:1 In France.

How One Welder's "Illegal" Seam Made LST Hulls Survive 500-Pound Mine Hits.