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.
Search & discovery
ONE SEARCH. A WIDER HISTORY.
Find a person, battle, citation, tank or aircraft profile, article, book or episode. Start with a name or identifier, then explore the connections.
7 results for “uss angle”
Showing 1–7
Dale Merlin Hansen
The ridge ahead looked less like a battlefield and more like a shattered hillside of rock, clay, and smoke. It was early May 1945 on Okinawa, and the Marines of Company E had stalled below Hill 60. Japanese machine guns chattered from hidden bunkers. Mortar rounds crashed into the slope, showering the men with dirt and splinters of coral. Every attempt to move up the ridge drew a fresh burst of fire that pinned them
Lawson Paterson “Red” Ramage
Night still clung to the sea when the submarine slid in among the enemy ships. On the open bridge, spray cold against his face, Commander Lawson “Red” Ramage watched the black shapes of freighters and tankers loom out of the darkness. Their wakes glowed faintly, white scars across a heaving Pacific, while bursts of star shell and tracer fire clawed at the sky. Somewhere off Taiwan, a Japanese convoy was trying to sli
Omaha Beach landings
A story of a nearly lost beach, scattered initiative, and how small groups clawed back the chance to win a war.
Pusan Perimeter
A story of a shrinking beachhead, exhausted troops, and how their stand kept South Korea from collapsing in 1950.
Sadr City operations
A story of exposed convoys, hidden fighters, and the soldiers and medics who kept moving through an urban kill zone.
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.