“He Gallantly Gave His Life”: First Lieutenant Harry Linn Martin on Iwo Jima
An Ohio engineer officer who turned a rear-area camp into a last-ditch defensive line
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“He Went Down for His Shipmates” The final dive of Navy Medal of Honor diver Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg
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HIMARS in Ukraine, 2022–Present
A story of long-range precision firepower told through the crews who drive a wheeled launcher into harm’s way and the targets that suddenly find nowhere to hide.
Holding the Pusan Perimeter: How American and Allied Troops Bought Time With Every Hill
A story of a shrinking beachhead, exhausted troops, and how their stand kept South Korea from collapsing in 1950.
House to House in Hue: Marines, Soldiers, and the Battle for a Citadel
A story of street-to-street fighting, shattered assumptions, and how one city battle reshaped the Vietnam War.
“I’ll Find You a Way Out”: Donald A. Gary and the Fires Aboard USS Franklin
How a quiet engineering officer led hundreds from the dark below decks during one of World War II’s worst carrier disasters.
Into Panama City: How U.S. Forces Toppled Noriega in a Lightning Campaign
A story of a fast, hard night strike to remove a dictator and reshape the balance of power in a vital crossroads of the Americas.
Into the Bulge: How American Units Bent but Did Not Break in Hitler’s Last Gamble
A story of a winter surprise offensive and exhausted American units holding the line under crushing odds.
Into the City: Marines, Soldiers, and the Second Battle of Fallujah
A story of block-by-block urban fighting and the hard decision to take back a city at any cost.
Isadore S. Jachman: Running Toward the Tanks
A Jewish paratrooper from Berlin who met the Battle of the Bulge head-on to save his men
“Last Man to Leave”: Pfc. Richard Eller Cowan at Krinkelter Wald
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge
Lines in the Sea: How the Cuban Quarantine Brought the World Close to Nuclear War
A story of a tense naval cordon, nuclear brinkmanship, and how one week at sea pushed the Cold War to the edge and back again.
Los Angeles–class Attack Submarines in the Hunter-Killer Role, the Cold War
A story of undersea reach and relentless pursuit, told through the crews who spent months in the dark hunting other submarines they hoped never to be seen by.
M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer in the Ardennes, 1944–45
A story of speed, improvisation, and thin armor told through the crews and battles that defined it.
M26 Pershing in Europe and Korea, 1945–1951
A story of firepower and adaptation told through the crews who took the Pershing from the ruins of Germany to the hills of Korea.
M41 Walker Bulldog in Armored Reconnaissance, the Cold War
A story of mobility, firepower, and adaptation told through a light tank and the crews who drove it into the heart of the Cold War’s proxy wars.
M65 Atomic Cannon in Atomic Testing at the Nevada Test Site, Early Cold War
A story of nuclear firepower and uneasy deterrence told through the crews, observers, and test shots that defined the United States’ only nuclear gun.
Mark IV Tank
The Mark IV tank was not fast, refined, or comfortable, but it was the machine that helped make Cambrai one of the defining armored battles of the First World War. As I release my new book, Cambrai: The First Great Tank Offensive, alongside Season 1 of Famous Tank Battles: Cambrai, this article looks at the tank itself: the steel, smoke, machinery, and human endurance behind the famous attack. Cambrai is remembered b