Ambush near LZ Albany
In Vietnam’s Central Highlands, the fighting around the Ia Drang Valley marked one of the first large-scale clashes between American airmobile forces and North Vietnamese regulars.
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Amphibious landing at Inchon, Korea
Early in the Korean War, United Nations forces clung to a shrinking perimeter around Pusan while North Korean troops pressed hard along the front.
ANZUS security treaty signed in San Francisco
In the early Cold War, the United States joined with Australia and New Zealand to sign a mutual security pact known as the ANZUS treaty.
Apollo 11 lunar landing
Although conducted by a civilian space agency, the Apollo program drew heavily on rocket, guidance, and communications technology developed alongside the United States military during the Cold War. On July 20th, 1969, the lunar module Eagle descended to the Moon’s surface while the command module Columbia orbited overhead, all under the watchful eyes of controllers on Earth.
Armistice and the End of World War I Combat
On November 11th, 1918, guns along the Western Front at last fell silent as the armistice between the Allies and Germany took effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Arthur F. DeFranzo
A Medal of Honor story of sacrifice and battlefield leadership in the Normandy campaign of World War II.
Banzai Charge on Saipan
On Saipan in the Mariana Islands, July 7th, 1944 witnessed one of the largest Japanese infantry charges of the Pacific War. In a desperate attempt to break American lines, thousands of Japanese soldiers, along with wounded men and support personnel formed into improvised units, launched a massive banzai attack against positions held by United States Army troops, notably elements of the 27th Infantry Division.
Battle of Allatoona Pass
In the aftermath of the fall of Atlanta during the Civil War, Confederate forces tried to strike back not by retaking the city, but by severing the Union army’s lifelines.
Battle of Boydton Plank Road
In the autumn of the Petersburg Campaign, Union commanders launched a series of flanking offensives aimed at severing the rail and wagon routes that kept Robert E.
Battle of Cambrai
Before sunrise on November 20, 1917, the British attack began without the usual warning. There was no long preliminary bombardment to announce that an offensive was coming. No days of shellfire tearing the battlefield apart in advance. Instead, the opening movement at Cambrai depended on secrecy, timing, and the strange mechanical presence of hundreds of tanks moving toward the German line.
Battle of Cape Esperance off Guadalcanal
Two decades later, another critical October engagement unfolded at night near Cape Esperance, off the embattled island of Guadalcanal.
Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
The landings at Cape Torokina invited a swift Japanese response at sea.
Battle of Franklin
Only a day after the horror at Sand Creek, another grim chapter unfolded in Tennessee when Confederate General John Bell Hood hurled his Army of Tennessee against fortified Union lines near Franklin.
Battle of Germantown
In the autumn of the Philadelphia campaign, George Washington gambled on a complex, pre-dawn attack against British forces encamped at Germantown, northwest of the occupied capital.
Battle of Great Bridge
Early in the Revolutionary War, control of the Tidewater region of Virginia hinged on a narrow causeway at Great Bridge, south of Norfolk.
Battle of Kings Mountain
Three years later and hundreds of miles to the south, another October 7th saw frontier riflemen climbing a steep Carolina ridge toward Loyalist breastworks on Kings Mountain.
Battle of Lookout Mountain
In the Civil War, Union forces fighting to break the Confederate siege of Chattanooga turned toward a steep, fog-shrouded height locals called Lookout Mountain.
Battle of Missionary Ridge
The day after Lookout Mountain, Union forces turned against the main Confederate positions east of Chattanooga, dug in along Missionary Ridge.