Landings at Cape Torokina, Bougainville
By late 1943, Allied planners focused on neutralizing the strong Japanese base at Rabaul without storming it head-on.
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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
Lee’s army crosses the Potomac into Maryland
In the late summer of the Civil War, Confederate General Robert E.
Leonard C. Brostrom
Medal of Honor, U.S. Army, World War II
Leyte Campaign
The October 1944 landings restored a major Allied foothold in the Philippines. Fleet battles protected that foothold, but Japanese reinforcement and the struggle for routes toward Ormoc made the ground campaign longer and more difficult than the beach assault alone suggests.
Longstreet invests Knoxville
In the late months of the Civil War, East Tennessee became a contested region where loyalty ran sharply divided.
Luzon Campaign, 1945
The return to Luzon combined amphibious landings, the destruction and liberation of Manila, the recovery of the bay approaches and months of fighting in mountain defenses. Capturing the capital did not end the island campaign.
MacArthur Named United Nations Commander in Korea
Less than three weeks after North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel, President Harry Truman moved to unify the international response under a single commander. On July 8th, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, already commanding United States forces in the Far East, was designated to lead United Nations military operations in Korea.
Manila falls to Japanese forces
The momentum of Japan’s early offensives reached the Philippine capital on January 2nd, 1942, when Japanese troops entered Manila.
March on Yorktown begins
One year later, on September 28th, 1781, a combined American and French army moved out from around Williamsburg and advanced toward British positions at Yorktown, Virginia.
Marines secure Belleau Wood
In the final year of World War I, the thick tangle of Belleau Wood in France became the proving ground for American forces newly committed to the Western Front. Over weeks of grinding combat alongside French units, Marines from the Fifth and Sixth regiments launched repeated attacks against German machine-gun nests and dugouts that commanded open wheat fields.
Melvin Earl Biddle
Snow hangs heavy in the Ardennes forest, muting sound until a rifle cracks and splinters bark from a nearby tree. Private First Class Melvin Earl Biddle lies pressed into the freezing ground, the lead scout for an American parachute infantry company feeling every heartbeat echo in the stock of his rifle. Somewhere ahead, beyond the dark trunks and tangled undergrowth, German snipers have halted his company’s advance
Metz falls to Third Army
In Europe, the fortified city of Metz had long been viewed as a tough nut to crack, with layers of forts dating back to earlier German rule.
Meuse-Argonne final offensive push
As the First World War neared its close, American forces in France were still locked in brutal combat.
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
A story of exhausted infantry, deep woods, and a final push that helped break Germany’s will to fight.
Meuse-Argonne Offensive opens
On September 26th, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces launched the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest United States campaign of the First World War and one of the biggest in the nation’s military history.
mission against Admiral Yamamoto
One year later to the day, another daring mission unfolded in the skies over the Pacific. On April 18th, 1943, United States forces executed a carefully planned interception of the aircraft carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. Guided by intelligence that revealed his inspection tour schedule, a handpicked group of long-range P-38 Lightning fighters flew at low altitude across o
Night Battle off Guadalcanal
On the night of November 13th, 1942, American and Japanese surface forces slammed into each other in the dark waters near Guadalcanal in one of the Pacific War’s most chaotic clashes.