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Dogs Join the Army
Two days after MacArthur’s departure, the Army formalized something more modest but surprisingly far-reaching by authorizing a program for military working dogs, often called the K-9 Corps. Until then, dogs had occasionally served in ad hoc roles, but wartime needs for better guard forces, patrols, and messengers pushed leaders to standardize training and employment.
Donald A. Gary
How a quiet engineering officer led hundreds from the dark below decks during one of World War II’s worst carrier disasters.
Doolittle Raid
A story of a long-shot bombing raid, a borrowed carrier deck, and how one gamble shifted the course of a global war.
Doolittle Raid on Japan
Barely four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States planned a strike to carry the war to the Japanese home islands. On April 18th, 1942, sixteen B-25 medium bombers led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle took off from the carrier USS Hornet in the Pacific, a feat never attempted before with aircraft of that size. Spotted early by enemy patrol vessels, the task force launched the bombers farther
E-3 Sentry AWACS
A story of airborne radar, battle management, and nervous crews watching the air war unfold on glowing scopes far from the front line.
EA-6B Prowler and EA-18G Growler
A story of adaptation, invisible firepower, and joint-force dependence told through the aviators and campaigns that defined these electronic attack aircraft.
Easter Offensive
By the early 1970s, United States leaders were pursuing “Vietnamization,” reducing American ground forces while training and equipping South Vietnamese units to carry more of the fighting. North Vietnamese commanders sought to test this strategy and change the balance on the ground, planning a large, conventional offensive using tanks, artillery, and massed infantry.
Eisenhower approves Patton’s turn toward Bastogne
On December 19th, 1944, senior Allied commanders met to assess the Ardennes crisis, and General Dwight D.
Elbe Day at Torgau
As the Second World War in Europe approached its end, converging Allied armies squeezed the shrinking territory of Nazi Germany from east and west. On April 25th, 1945, elements of the United States 69th Infantry Division, advancing eastward, encountered units of the Soviet 58th Guards Rifle Division near the town of Torgau on the Elbe River. Soldiers from both sides crossed the ruined landscape to shake hands on a d
Emancipation Proclamation takes effect
On January 1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation officially took effect, transforming the nature of the Civil War.
End of the Battle of Iwo Jima
While armies crossed rivers in Europe, Marines in the Pacific were still locked in some of the war’s most brutal island battles. United States forces had landed on Iwo Jima in February 1945, attacking a volcanic fortress where Japanese defenders used tunnels, caves, and concrete bunkers to make every yard of ground costly. The famous flag raising on Mount Suribachi took place early in the campaign, but heavy fighting
Enrollment Act creates the first nationwide Union draft
As the Civil War ground into its third year, the Union’s volunteer pool began to thin, and the government faced the reality that enthusiasm alone would not sustain huge field armies. On March 3rd, 1863, the Enrollment Act became law, creating the first nationwide system of conscription in United States history.
Eric G. Gibson
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Italian campaign of World War II.
Eric Gunnar Gibson
The winter sky over the Anzio beachhead was a low, gray lid, pressing the sound of guns back down onto the men below. Along a shallow drainage ditch called the Fossa Femminamorta, muddy water slid past tufts of grass and shattered reeds. Somewhere ahead, beyond the next bend, German machine guns covered the open fields that stretched away from the ditch, anchoring a strongpoint that threatened the entire attack.
Esek Hopkins and the first American fleet commander
In the early months of the Revolution, the Continental Congress moved from ad-hoc privateers to something closer to a real navy by appointing Esek Hopkins as commander in chief of the Continental Navy.
Establishment of the Revenue Cutter Service
On August 4th, 1790, the young federal government took a practical step to secure both its finances and its coasts. Responding to proposals from Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Congress authorized the construction of a small fleet of revenue cutters to enforce customs laws and combat smuggling. These fast sailing vessels and their crews patrolled harbors and coastal routes, boarding ships, checking carg
Evacuation Day at Boston
Almost a year into the Revolutionary War, the siege of Boston had ground on with neither side able to deliver a decisive blow. General George Washington’s Continental troops ringed the city while British regulars and Royal Navy ships held the harbor and town, each side suffering from supply problems and disease.