1960 U-2 incident
A story of secret overflights, Cold War nerves, and the moment a “untouchable” spy plane finally fell from the sky.
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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.
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
Eric Gunnar Gibson
The winter sky over the Anzio beachhead was a low, gray lid, pressing the sound of guns back down onto the men below. Along a shallow drainage ditch called the Fossa Femminamorta, muddy water slid past tufts of grass and shattered reeds. Somewhere ahead, beyond the next bend, German machine guns covered the open fields that stretched away from the ditch, anchoring a strongpoint that threatened the entire attack.
Francis B. Wai
The ramps drop into waist-deep surf and chaos. It is the morning of October 20, 1944, on a stretch of shoreline the maps call Red Beach. Ahead lies a narrow band of sand, beyond it a low palm grove and flooded rice paddies. Somewhere in that green fringe, Japanese guns have the approaches bracketed. As the first waves of soldiers tried to cross, the beach turned into a killing ground.
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
Mikasa class
A single-ship Japanese pre-dreadnought built in Britain for the Six-Six Fleet program and designed around the balanced heavy and secondary batteries of the late pre-dreadnought era.
Monitor class
A radical low-freeboard ironclad built around a steam-powered rotating turret. The single ship gave its name to an entire family of later coastal and riverine warships.
New York class
The New York class introduced the 14-inch gun to American battleships and carried two ships from the dreadnought race through both world wars.
Omaha Beach landings
A story of a nearly lost beach, scattered initiative, and how small groups clawed back the chance to win a war.
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.
Ova A. Kelley
Before dawn on Leyte, the world was reduced to shadows, muzzle flashes, and the flat crack of Japanese rifles. Company A of the 382nd Infantry had clawed its way to the edge of the enemy‑held Buri airstrip, then stalled. Out in front, less than a hundred yards away, Japanese soldiers were dug into bomb craters and a drainage ditch, their machine guns perfectly sighted on every patch of open ground. Anyone who tried t
Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg
By February 1945, much of Pearl Harbor had returned to the business of war. Battleships and carriers came and went; convoys formed up and headed west toward Iwo Jima and Okinawa. But in a side channel called West Loch, the harbor still hid a graveyard. Months earlier, a chain of explosions had torn through a cluster of tank landing ships loading ammunition for the Pacific campaign.