Capture of Saddam Hussein near Tikrit
Nearly nine months after the opening invasion of Iraq, United States forces were still hunting for Saddam Hussein, whose regime had collapsed but whose presence loomed over the growing insurgency.
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Destroyer USS Kearny torpedoed near Iceland
Even before a formal declaration of war against Germany, the United States Navy was escorting convoys in the North Atlantic, confronting the realities of submarine warfare.
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.
USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere
A story of a wooden frigate under fire, a nickname earned in cannon smoke, and a young navy learning it could stand toe-to-toe with the world’s best.
Cassin Young
The first explosions rolled across Pearl Harbor like distant thunder, then slammed into the harbor with terrifying clarity. On the repair ship USS Vestal, moored outboard of the battleship USS Arizona, Commander Cassin Young felt his ship shudder as bombs found their mark up and down the fleet. Men sprinted for their battle stations, the air already thick with smoke, the rising whine of diving aircraft cutting throug
Doolittle Raid on Japan
Barely four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States planned a strike to carry the war to the Japanese home islands. On April 18th, 1942, sixteen B-25 medium bombers led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle took off from the carrier USS Hornet in the Pacific, a feat never attempted before with aircraft of that size. Spotted early by enemy patrol vessels, the task force launched the bombers farther
Germany and Italy declare war on the United States
Just three days after Pearl Harbor, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini chose to broaden the conflict by declaring war on the United States on December 11th, 1941.
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.
USS Iowa
Lead ship of the Iowa class, with service in World War II, Korea, and the renewed battleship program of the 1980s.
USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama
Off the French port of Cherbourg, two warships met in a duel that captured worldwide attention and helped decide a quieter but crucial front in the Civil War. The Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama had spent years attacking Union merchant shipping across the globe, forcing the United States to divert warships to hunt her and driving up insurance rates.
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.
Vicksburg Campaign and Siege
Grant’s campaign brought a Union army across the Mississippi, isolated Vicksburg, and turned two failed assaults into a sustained siege. This overview connects the river operations, land battles, civilian experience, and recipient citations without treating every action as the same engagement.
Anton L. Krotiak
The air over Balete Pass crackled with small-arms fire and the flat explosions of grenades. On the steep slope of Hill B, a narrow finger of ground jutting out above the zigzag road that threaded the Caraballo Mountains, five exhausted American infantrymen hugged the earth around a captured Japanese trench. It was 8 May 1945, deep in the Battle of Luzon, and Private First Class Anton L.
Armored combat in the Gulf War
A story of high-tech American armor meeting Soviet-designed tanks in the desert and how it reshaped modern ground warfare.
Battle for Henderson Field
A story of a jungle airstrip, thin lines of Marines and soldiers, and how local air power reshaped the Pacific war.
Battle of Huế
A story of street-to-street fighting, shattered assumptions, and how one city battle reshaped the Vietnam War.
Battle of the Bulge
A story of a winter surprise offensive and exhausted American units holding the line under crushing odds.
China Relief Expedition, 1900
The crisis in north China produced several connected operations: defense of the foreign legations, the unsuccessful Seymour expedition, fighting around Tientsin, and the August advance on Peking. Their recipients did not all fight at the same place or on the same day.