Normandy airborne landings
A story of scattered night jumps, improvised small-unit fights, and how chaos still helped open the door into Fortress Europe.
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Okinawa radar picket campaign
A story of small ships on lonely stations, taking the worst hits so the Okinawa invasion could hold together under fire.
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 campaign in Afghanistan (2001)
A story of Green Berets on horseback, precision airpower overhead, and how a fragile alliance helped topple a regime in weeks.
Opening of the Battle of Chickamauga
In the wooded hills of north Georgia, the Western Theater saw its own grim test when Union and Confederate armies collided along Chickamauga Creek.
Operation Cobra
On the far side of the world, the same date saw the United States First Army launch a long-awaited breakout from the Normandy hedgerows. After weeks of slow, attritional fighting among the bocage lanes, Operation Cobra aimed to shatter German defenses west of Saint-Lô with a massive aerial bombardment followed by concentrated armored and infantry thrusts.
Operation Linebacker II begins over North Vietnam
On December 18th, 1972, United States bombers and supporting aircraft began a concentrated air offensive often known as the “Christmas bombing” of North Vietnam.
Operation Market Garden airborne landings
Two days after the Peleliu landings, American paratroopers were jumping over the Netherlands as part of an ambitious Allied plan to seize a route across major rivers into Germany.
Operation Torch Landings in North Africa
On November 8th, 1942, the United States undertook its first major offensive in the European–North African theater of the Second World War.
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.
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
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Jumping forward to the American Civil War, September 22nd, 1862, marked a profound shift in the Union’s war aims when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
Pusan Perimeter
A story of a shrinking beachhead, exhausted troops, and how their stand kept South Korea from collapsing in 1950.
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.
Relief of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge
In the bitter winter of 1944, the Belgian town of Bastogne became a focal point of the last major German offensive in the West.
Renewed Marine Corps assaults at Belleau Wood
In June 1918, United States Marines and soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces were committed to stopping a German drive toward Paris near a patch of forest called Belleau Wood. On June 11th, 1918, Marine units launched renewed assaults into the dense, shell-torn woods after earlier attacks had been thrown back with heavy losses.
Return to the Philippines at Leyte
Two years later, American forces carried that growing momentum back to the Philippines.
Richard Eller Cowan
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge