Operation Market Garden
A story of a bold airborne gamble, a narrow road north, and the bridges that proved just one too many.
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Organized resistance breaks in Fallujah
In the Iraq War, the second battle for the city of Fallujah became one of the most intense urban fights American forces had seen in generations.
Owen F. P. Hammerberg
Beyond the Call: Medal of Honor Stories — Dispatch: U.S.
Patrick L. Kessler
A Medal of Honor story of relentless courage under fire in the Italian campaign of World War II.
Peter J. Dalessandro
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Battle of the Bulge.
Radar picket operations at Okinawa
A story of small ships on lonely stations, taking the worst hits so the Okinawa invasion could hold together under fire.
Robert M. Viale
A Medal of Honor story of sacrifice and courage in World War II’s Pacific campaign.
Roosevelt’s Navy Day address
In the autumn before formal American entry into the Second World War, United States warships were already escorting convoys and trading shots with German submarines in the North Atlantic.
San Francisco Peace Treaty
When the peace treaty with Japan came into force on this day, it formally ended the Allied occupation that had begun after World War II. United States forces remained in Japan under a separate security agreement, but the legal relationship changed from occupier to ally. American bases now operated with the consent of a sovereign Japanese government, and the two nations began to frame their cooperation in terms of sha
Sand Creek Massacre
On the High Plains of the Colorado Territory, a column of Colorado volunteer cavalry descended on a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment along Sand Creek.
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.
Sherman Begins the March to the Sea
On November 15th, 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led his Union army columns out of a largely destroyed Atlanta and turned them toward the Georgia coast.
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.
Son Tay prison camp raid
As the Vietnam War dragged on, reports of American prisoners held deep inside North Vietnam weighed heavily on families, policymakers, and military planners.
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.
Tehran Conference begins
That same global war produced a very different sort of turning point when Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered in Tehran, Iran, for their first full wartime summit.
Terrorist attacks on the United States
On this date, coordinated terrorist attacks struck the United States homeland in a way not seen before.
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.