The American Air Forces #1

When Hitler's fortress across Europe proves vulnerable from above, the Allied air forces launch a devastating assault on Nazi-held territory. As bombers rain down on key enemy targets and fighter cover protects the advancing troops, the invasion of occupied France breaks through Hitler's defenses from the sky down. This is the story of how air superiority turned the tide on June 6th, 1944.

Major Leon Gray of the Northwest African Photo Reconnaissance group faces a desperate moment when two Italian fighters close in on his unarmed F-5A camera plane during a reconnaissance run over Rome. As Gray pulls his speedy aircraft into a sharp climb to evade the attack, his quick thinking sets the stage for an extraordinary turn of fortune in the skies above the target.

Colonel Phil Cochran leads General Wingate's Chindits—legendary jungle fighters—on a daring nighttime glider assault into Japanese-occupied Burma, targeting two clearings code-named Fifth Avenue and Bond Street. When reconnaissance reveals the enemy has fortified one landing zone, the operation pivots to a desperate touchdown in darkness, where some gliders crash and soldiers make the ultimate sacrifice to secure the beachhead. By dawn, against the clock, the Chindits transform their jungle foothold into an airfield, setting the stage for a full-scale push to reclaim Burma from Japanese control.

On August 1, 1943, 177 B-24 Liberators of the 9th Bomber Command launch a daring low-level assault on the Ploesti oil refineries in Romania—Hitler's vital fuel supply for his European operations. Flying through intense anti-aircraft fire and German fighter opposition at heights as low as 10 feet, the bomber crews navigate terrain they've trained on through maps and scale models, pressing the attack as the target becomes an inferno. This is the true story of one of the war's most strategically significant and costly bombing missions.