United States Air Force becomes a separate service
In the aftermath of global war, American leaders restructured their armed forces to meet emerging strategic realities.
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United States Naval School opens at Annapolis
Not every turning point comes with smoke and cannon fire.
USS Arizona
USS Arizona served in the U.S. battle fleet for twenty-five years before her destruction at Pearl Harbor. Her wreck and memorial now connect an individual ship, its crew, and the national memory of 7 December 1941.
USS Iowa
Lead ship of the Iowa class, with service in World War II, Korea, and the renewed battleship program of the 1980s.
USS Monitor
USS Monitor served for only ten months, but her rotating turret, battle with CSS Virginia, loss at sea, and continuing archaeological conservation made her one of the most consequential warships of the nineteenth century.
USS Texas
USS Texas served from the Veracruz crisis through two world wars, fired in support of major amphibious operations, and survived as one of the most important preserved dreadnoughts.
Victory at Trenton after the Delaware crossing
On a bitter, stormy Christmas night, George Washington led a force of Continental soldiers and militia across the ice-choked Delaware River, gambling that a surprise strike could salvage a collapsing cause.
Warrior class
Warrior and Black Prince were the Royal Navy first large iron-hulled armoured warships, combining steam, sail, a heavy broadside battery, and an armoured central section at the start of a rapid naval revolution.
William H. Thomas
How a 22-year-old automatic rifleman kept firing after losing both legs, and saved his platoon in the Philippine mountains of 1945.
Wounded Knee Massacre
On December 29th, 1890, troops of the 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Miniconjou Lakota near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, seeking to disarm them amid fears surrounding the Ghost Dance movement.
Zumwalt-class Destroyers
A story of stealth, electric power, precision strike, and ambition told through the sailors and systems that defined one of the most unusual warships ever built.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The same week on the calendar, but in a different year, brought one of the most searing dates in United States military history: December 7th, 1941.
Battle of the Philippine Sea
An air-sea clash where radar, training, and discipline turned a desperate carrier defense into a one-sided hammer blow that reshaped the Pacific war.
USS Nautilus (SSN-571)
A story of nuclear propulsion, undersea endurance, and how one boat reshaped the Cold War at sea.