Gulf War tank battles
A story of high-tech American armor meeting Soviet-designed tanks in the desert and how it reshaped modern ground warfare.
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Harold Gonsalves
A Medal of Honor story of selfless sacrifice and battlefield leadership in World War II.
Harry L. Martin
An Ohio engineer officer who turned a rear-area camp into a last-ditch defensive line
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty signed
At the turn of the twentieth century, American leaders viewed an isthmian canal as essential to both commerce and naval strategy.
Henry T. Elrod
How a Marine Corps fighter pilot sank a destroyer, then picked up a rifle to defend a tiny atoll at the dawn of World War II.
Hershel W. Williams
A Medal of Honor story of relentless courage under fire in the Pacific War of World War II.
Highway of Death
A story of a retreat turned into a deadly gauntlet, and how air power reshaped the end of the Gulf War.
Hill 875 at Dak To
Two years later, the Central Highlands again saw fierce engagements as American commanders tried to disrupt enemy concentrations near the Cambodian and Laotian borders.
HIMARS
A story of long-range precision firepower told through the crews who drive a wheeled launcher into harm’s way and the targets that suddenly find nowhere to hide.
“Home by Christmas” offensive in Korea
In the hills and valleys of North Korea, United Nations forces under General Douglas MacArthur pressed northward in an ambitious push toward the Yalu River.
“Hull note” delivered to Japan
In the tense weeks before open war in the Pacific, Japanese diplomats in Washington received a new written proposal from Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
Iran Hostage Crisis Begins
On November 4th, 1979, the line between diplomatic tension and outright crisis was crossed at the United States embassy in Tehran.
Ironclad Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras
While soldiers bled at Stones River, sailors on the pioneering ironclad Monitor fought the sea itself.
Isadore S. Jachman
A Jewish paratrooper from Berlin who met the Battle of the Bulge head-on to save his men
James H. Mills
A Medal of Honor story of relentless courage under fire in the Italian campaign of World War II.
James L. Day
A Medal of Honor story of stubborn courage and small-unit leadership in the Pacific war’s last great battle.
Japan surrenders aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
On this day representatives of Imperial Japan signed an instrument of surrender on the deck of the battleship Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay and surrounded by Allied warships.
Japanese landings at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon
Just two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces struck another major blow by landing large invasion forces along the shores of Lingayen Gulf in northern Luzon on December 22nd, 1941.