M41 Walker Bulldog
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.
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M551 Sheridan
A story of airborne firepower and fragile protection told through the crews and battles that defined it.
M60 Patton
A story of survivability, firepower, and adaptation told through the Marine crews and desert battles that defined it.
M65 Atomic Cannon
A story of nuclear firepower and uneasy deterrence told through the crews, observers, and test shots that defined the United States’ only nuclear gun.
M88 Hercules
A story of hard-learned recovery, brute-force engineering, and keeping broken armor in the fight when everything else says it should be left behind.
MacArthur arrives in Japan
On August 30th, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur stepped off an aircraft at Atsugi Airfield near Tokyo as the designated Supreme Commander for the Allied occupation of Japan.
MacArthur Leaves the Philippines
When war came to the Pacific, American and Filipino troops on Bataan and Corregidor fought a desperate delaying action against advancing Japanese forces. By March 1942, the situation had grown dire, and the president ordered General Douglas MacArthur to leave the islands and avoid capture. On the night of March 11th, MacArthur and his party boarded small patrol torpedo boats for a dangerous run through hostile waters
MacArthur Named United Nations Commander in Korea
Less than three weeks after North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel, President Harry Truman moved to unify the international response under a single commander. On July 8th, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, already commanding United States forces in the Far East, was designated to lead United Nations military operations in Korea.
Malta Summit between Bush and Gorbachev
On December 2nd, 1989, President George H.
Manila falls to Japanese forces
The momentum of Japan’s early offensives reached the Philippine capital on January 2nd, 1942, when Japanese troops entered Manila.
March on Yorktown begins
One year later, on September 28th, 1781, a combined American and French army moved out from around Williamsburg and advanced toward British positions at Yorktown, Virginia.
Marine landings on Tinian
Just days after Guam, another carefully planned amphibious assault unfolded on the nearby island of Tinian. American planners studied Japanese defenses and concluded that a direct assault on the obvious beaches would be too costly, so they chose two much smaller, less expected landing sites on Tinian’s northwest coast. Marines went ashore across those narrow strips of sand using specialized landing craft and intense
Marines assault Tarawa
During the Second World War’s Pacific campaign, the Gilbert Islands became a stepping stone toward the central Pacific.
Marines attack Belleau Wood
Less than a year later, American forces were in the thick of combat in France. On June 6th, 1918, United States Marines and soldiers attacked German positions in and around Belleau Wood, a dense patch of forest near the Marne River. German offensives had driven the Allies back toward Paris, and the Americans were thrown into the line to help stop the advance.
Marines land at Da Nang in the Vietnam War
Two decades after Remagen and Tokyo, another conflict drew the United States into a deeper commitment far from home. On March 8th, 1965, United States Marines waded ashore near Da Nang in South Vietnam, officially arriving as combat troops to protect the important air base there. Until then, most American personnel in the country had been framed as advisors and support teams, even as their numbers grew and their role
Marines land on Peleliu in the Pacific
In the western Pacific, Marines of the First Marine Division stepped off amtracs onto the coral beaches of Peleliu on September 15th, 1944.
Marines secure Belleau Wood
In the final year of World War I, the thick tangle of Belleau Wood in France became the proving ground for American forces newly committed to the Western Front. Over weeks of grinding combat alongside French units, Marines from the Fifth and Sixth regiments launched repeated attacks against German machine-gun nests and dugouts that commanded open wheat fields.
Marines storm John Brown’s stronghold at Harpers Ferry
Before the Civil War formally began, the United States Marine Corps found itself at the center of a domestic crisis when abolitionist John Brown seized the federal armory at Harpers Ferry.