Richard Eller Cowan
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge
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Sadr City operations
A story of exposed convoys, hidden fighters, and the soldiers and medics who kept moving through an urban kill zone.
Salerno landings and the Italian armistice
In early September 1943, the strategic picture in the Mediterranean shifted rapidly.
Second Battle of Sabine Pass
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.
Second Battle of Saratoga (Bemis Heights)
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.
Second Bull Run, heavy Union assaults
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.
Siege lines open at Yorktown, 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.
Sinking of USS Reuben James
In the early hours of October 31st, 1941, the Clemson-class destroyer USS Reuben James was escorting a convoy near Iceland when a German submarine fired a spread of torpedoes into the formation.
SR-71 Blackbird
A story of speed, altitude, and evasion told through the crews and missions that defined it.
St. Clair’s Defeat on the Wabash
On this day a fledgling United States Army marched into disaster along the Wabash River in the Northwest Territory.
“Taffy 3” at the Battle off Samar
That massive naval struggle reached its most dramatic moment off Samar.
The Battle of Ia Drang Begins
On November 14th, 1965, helicopters of the United States Army’s 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) began landing infantry battalions near the Chu Pong Massif in the Ia Drang Valley of South Vietnam.
Thomas Eugene “Gene” Atkins
It is the early hours of 10 March 1945 on Luzon in the Philippine Islands. The jungle around the Villa Verde Trail is black and close, broken only by a thin ridge that juts out from a larger hill. On that ridge, just ahead of the main American perimeter, three foxholes scrape a shallow line in the earth. In one of them lies Private First Class Thomas Eugene “Gene” Atkins of Company A, 127th Infantry. His job is simpl
Type VII U-boat
The central German Atlantic submarine family, developed through successive variants and represented in the pilot by the surviving U-995.
U-2 Dragon Lady
A story of reach and persistence told through the pilots who rode the thin air and the targets they photographed far below.
U-995
A surviving Type VIIC/41 submarine with German wartime service, a second career as the Norwegian Kaura, and preservation at Laboe.
UH-1 Huey and Its Variants
A story of reach, survivability, and adaptation told through the pilots, crews, and troops who lived and fought under the Huey’s rotors.
Union Army withdraws after Fredericksburg
By December 15th, 1862, the Army of the Potomac was pulling back across the Rappahannock River after the bloody defeat at Fredericksburg.