Mikasa
Mikasa served as Admiral Togo flagship in the Russo-Japanese War, survived battle and a magazine explosion, and became the only preserved pre-dreadnought battleship.
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Mikasa class
A single-ship Japanese pre-dreadnought built in Britain for the Six-Six Fleet program and designed around the balanced heavy and secondary batteries of the late pre-dreadnought era.
Minuteman III ICBM
A story of survivability and instant readiness told through the crews who sat on alert and the crises they hoped would never come.
Monitor class
A radical low-freeboard ironclad built around a steam-powered rotating turret. The single ship gave its name to an entire family of later coastal and riverine warships.
New Mexico-class Battleships
A story of firepower, adaptation, and endurance told through the gun crews, lookouts, and engineers who carried these older battleships into the heart of the Pacific War.
new vision for missile defense
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.
New York class
The New York class introduced the 14-inch gun to American battleships and carried two ships from the dreadnought race through both world wars.
Ohio-class SSBNs
A story of survivability and silent reach told through the crews who vanish beneath the waves and the adversaries they deter.
Oliver Hazard Perry–Class Frigates
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.
Opening air campaign of Operation Desert Storm
A story of stealth jets, precision strikes, and a regime suddenly in the dark, and how it changed the wider war.
Operation Desert Fox strikes Iraq
On December 16th, 1998, American and British forces began a four-day air and missile campaign against Iraqi targets known as Operation Desert Fox.
OV-10 Bronco
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.
Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg
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.
Pennsylvania class
A two-ship American dreadnought class that concentrated twelve 14-inch guns in four triple turrets and carried the Standard-type battleship concept into a heavier, more mature form.
Pennsylvania-class Battleships
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.
Raids on North Vietnamese fuel depots
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.
RC-135 Rivet Joint
A story of reach, listening power, and adaptation told through the crews who rode a jetliner-turned-spyplane into Iraq’s most dangerous airspace.
Relief of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge
In the bitter winter of 1944, the Belgian town of Bastogne became a focal point of the last major German offensive in the West.