Second Battle of Fallujah
A story of block-by-block urban fighting and the hard decision to take back a city at any cost.
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Second Battle of Sabine Pass
Along the Gulf Coast, Union planners sought to open a route into Texas by sending a naval expedition and troop transports toward Sabine Pass at the border with Louisiana.
Second Battle of Saratoga (Bemis Heights)
One year after Valcour Island, American forces under General Horatio Gates and field leaders like Benedict Arnold clashed with General John Burgoyne’s army near Bemis Heights, south of Saratoga.
Selective Service Act signed into law
On May 18th, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signs the Selective Service Act, creating a national mechanism to draft men into military service. The law requires eligible males to register for possible induction, and it lays out how local boards will classify and call individuals. For the United States, whose small prewar Army cannot sustain large operations in Europe, the act is essential to raising a mass citizen for
Seoul recaptured in Korean War
Finally, on September 28th, 1950, United Nations forces led by General Douglas MacArthur, alongside South Korean troops, completed the recapture of Seoul during the Korean War.
Sergeant Alvin York’s action in the Argonne
In the closing weeks of the First World War, American units were grinding forward in the Meuse-Argonne offensive against deeply entrenched German defenses.
Seymour W. Terry
The hill had a simple name on the map—Zebra Hill—but nothing about it was simple up close. Ahead of the assault troops the ground rose in a broken, rocky slope, pocked with shell holes and scraps of shattered brush. Hidden in that terrain were Japanese pillboxes and trenches positioned to command every approach. As the American infantrymen pushed forward, the hillside erupted with machine-gun bursts and grenades, tur
Sherman captures Savannah, Georgia
On December 21st, 1864, Union forces under Major General William Tecumseh Sherman entered Savannah at the end of the famous March to the Sea.
Shuri Line abandoned on Okinawa
As the Pacific war neared its climax, the Battle of Okinawa became one of the bloodiest and most complex operations ever undertaken by American forces. By late May of 1945, United States Army and Marine units had fought their way against layered Japanese defenses centered on the Shuri Line, a fortified belt anchored by Shuri Castle. On May 29th, 1945, Japanese commanders began abandoning this vital position under rel
Siege of Khe Sanh
Near the border with North Vietnam, United States Marines at the remote base of Khe Sanh found themselves at the center of a looming storm. On January 21st, 1968, North Vietnamese forces began heavy artillery and rocket bombardments, cutting roads and tightening a ring around the base. The isolated garrison, supported by Army and Air Force aviation, braced for a potential ground assault reminiscent of the French defe
Siege of Petersburg
The struggle for Petersburg combined failed assaults, trench warfare, railway interdiction, and repeated battles on an expanding front. This overview follows the campaign from June 1864 through the April 1865 evacuation, preserving the distinctions between individual award actions.
Siege of Port Hudson
Port Hudson protected a difficult stretch of the Mississippi River. Farragut’s March passage preceded Banks’s land siege, whose costly assaults and prolonged investment ended with the Confederate surrender on July 9, 1863.
Siege of the Alamo
On February 23rd, 1836, Mexican forces under Antonio López de Santa Anna arrived at San Antonio de Béxar and invested the small garrison holding the Alamo mission. The defenders were a mix of local Tejanos and volunteers from the United States who had joined the Texan cause, commanded by figures like William Barret Travis and James Bowie. Their position was poor in purely military terms: a converted mission with inco
Sinking of USS Reuben James
In the early hours of October 31st, 1941, the Clemson-class destroyer USS Reuben James was escorting a convoy near Iceland when a German submarine fired a spread of torpedoes into the formation.
St. Mihiel offensive begins
Near the end of the First World War, the American Expeditionary Forces launched their first major offensive as a largely independent army against the German-held St.
Street Fighting in Hue
During the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of attacks launched by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, the ancient imperial city of Hue became one of the most hotly contested urban battlefields of the war. By February 8th, 1968, American Marines and soldiers, together with South Vietnamese units, were fully engaged in a block-by-block struggle to retake neighborhoods and key government sites inside the city.
“Taffy 3” at the Battle off Samar
That massive naval struggle reached its most dramatic moment off Samar.
Tehran Conference begins
That same global war produced a very different sort of turning point when Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered in Tehran, Iran, for their first full wartime summit.