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John D. Kelly
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Normandy campaign.
John Glenn orbits Earth in Friendship 7
On February 20th, 1962, Marine Corps officer John Glenn rode the spacecraft Friendship 7 into orbit atop an Atlas rocket, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth. The mission lasted only a few hours and three circuits of the planet, but it carried enormous importance in the Cold War competition for space. Glenn’s background as a fighter and test pilot linked early spaceflight directly to the skills and culture
John P. Cromwell
A Medal of Honor story of sacrifice and moral courage in the Pacific war.
John Paul Jones off Flamborough Head
Three years later, on the same date of the calendar, an American naval squadron under Captain John Paul Jones fought one of the most celebrated sea battles of the war off the English coast near Flamborough Head.
John Paul Jones Raids Whitehaven
In the spring of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Navy’s most famous captain carried the fight directly to Britain’s own shores. Sailing the sloop Ranger, John Paul Jones led a small landing party into the harbor at Whitehaven on England’s west coast. His men spiked coastal guns and attempted to set several ships ablaze, causing little physical damage but a great deal of alarm.
John R. Kane
A Medal of Honor story of relentless leadership and courage under fire in World War II.
John R. McKinney
A Medal of Honor story of one-man courage under fire in the Philippines campaign of World War II.
John Riley Kane
The B-24 shook as it skimmed over the Romanian countryside, treetops flashing beneath the wings and church steeples knifing up toward the formation. Ahead, the sky over Ploesti was already boiling with black bursts of antiaircraft fire and thick columns of oily smoke. Colonel John Riley Kane, commanding the third element of heavy bombers in a massive low-level strike, peered through the haze and realized something wa
Johnnie D. Hutchins
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and quiet sacrifice in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
Johnson limits bombing and declines reelection
In a televised address during the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced a partial halt to the bombing of North Vietnam and, in a stunning closing, declared that he would not seek nor accept his party’s nomination for another term. The speech came in the wake of the Tet Offensive, a widespread enemy campaign that had shaken public confidence despite heavy Communist losses.
Jose Calugas
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Philippines campaign of World War II.
Joseph Hooker takes command of the Army of the Potomac
After the disastrous Union defeat at Fredericksburg and the swampy failure of the so-called “Mud March,” President Abraham Lincoln decided he could no longer keep Ambrose Burnside in charge of the Army of the Potomac. Orders issued in late January placed Major General Joseph Hooker, a combative and outspoken corps commander, in charge of the Union’s main eastern field army.
Joseph R. Julian
The black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima offered no cover, only shallow shell holes and jagged rock. On the morning of March 9, 1945, Platoon Sergeant Joseph R. Julian lay there with the rest of his company, pressed into the ash while enemy fire tore long furrows across the slope. Ahead of them, a line of Japanese trenches and pillboxes guarded a critical rise. Machine guns hammered from narrow firing slits.
Kabul airport Abbey Gate bombing
On August 26th, 2021, as crowds of desperate Afghans pressed toward Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, a suicide bomber struck near Abbey Gate.
KC-135 Stratotanker
A story of reach and endurance told through the tanker crews who turned fuel into combat power across half a century of wars and crises.
Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech
Standing before a large crowd in West Berlin on June 26th, 1963, President John F. Kennedy used a few carefully chosen phrases to encapsulate American support for a divided city. The Berlin Wall, erected nearly two years earlier, loomed as a concrete symbol of Cold War confrontation, and residents of the Western sectors lived each day with the knowledge that Soviet and East German forces stood just across the barrier
Korean War armistice signed
On the Korean peninsula, three years of brutal fighting ended with signatures on a document at Panmunjom, not with a victory parade. Delegates representing the United Nations Command, North Korea, and China agreed to a cease-fire that froze front lines near where they had started, around the Thirty-Eighth Parallel. The agreement established the Demilitarized Zone, a fortified strip of land that remains one of the mos