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During a period of renewed Cold War tension, the United States sought ways to counter the enormous arsenals of intercontinental ballistic missiles held by both superpowers. On March 23rd, 1983, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation and called for a long-term research effort into defensive systems that could intercept and destroy incoming nuclear weapons.
A story of survivability and silent reach told through the crews who vanish beneath the waves and the adversaries they deter.
A story of reach, endurance, and compromise told through the crews who rode these lean escorts along the Cold War’s front-line sea lanes.
A story of stealth jets, precision strikes, and a regime suddenly in the dark, and how it changed the wider war.
On December 16th, 1998, American and British forces began a four-day air and missile campaign against Iraqi targets known as Operation Desert Fox.
A story of low-and-slow fire support, told through the aircrews who flew the Bronco into the jungle fight and the troops who depended on them.
By February 1945, much of Pearl Harbor had returned to the business of war. Battleships and carriers came and went; convoys formed up and headed west toward Iwo Jima and Okinawa. But in a side channel called West Loch, the harbor still hid a graveyard. Months earlier, a chain of explosions had torn through a cluster of tank landing ships loading ammunition for the Pacific campaign.
A story of heavy guns, armored decks, and crews who learned to fight an early-twentieth-century battleship through a very different kind of war.
In the middle years of the Vietnam War, American leaders sought ways to weaken the enemy’s ability to move troops and supplies down long, fragile lines of communication. On June 29th, 1966, U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft carried out major attacks on petroleum storage facilities near Hanoi and Haiphong, striking targets that had previously been off-limits or only lightly hit.
A story of reach, listening power, and adaptation told through the crews who rode a jetliner-turned-spyplane into Iraq’s most dangerous airspace.
In the bitter winter of 1944, the Belgian town of Bastogne became a focal point of the last major German offensive in the West.
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge
A story of exposed convoys, hidden fighters, and the soldiers and medics who kept moving through an urban kill zone.
In early September 1943, the strategic picture in the Mediterranean shifted rapidly.
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.
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.
On August 29th, 1862, Union forces under Major General John Pope hurled repeated attacks against Confederate positions near an unfinished railroad grade outside Manassas, Virginia.
As autumn settled over Virginia in 1781, combined American and French armies under George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau began the methodical work of besieging Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.