Sergeant Alvin York’s action in the Argonne
In the closing weeks of the First World War, American units were grinding forward in the Meuse-Argonne offensive against deeply entrenched German defenses.
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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.
Sherman captures Savannah, Georgia
On December 21st, 1864, Union forces under Major General William Tecumseh Sherman entered Savannah at the end of the famous March to the Sea.
Sherman’s “Christmas gift” telegram from Savannah
After cutting a swath across Georgia in the famous March to the Sea, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman captured the port city of Savannah in December 1864.
Siege lines open at Yorktown, Virginia
As autumn settled over Virginia in 1781, combined American and French armies under George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau began the methodical work of besieging Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.
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.
South Carolina secedes from the Union
When delegates in South Carolina voted on December 20th, 1860 to leave the Union, they set in motion a crisis that would soon reshape the United States military.
SR-71 Blackbird
A story of speed, altitude, and evasion told through the crews and missions that defined it.
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.
St. Mihiel offensive begins
Near the end of the First World War, the American Expeditionary Forces launched their first major offensive as a largely independent army against the German-held St.
Surrender at Saratoga
On this day General John Burgoyne’s British army laid down its arms to American forces near Saratoga, New York, ending a failed campaign to cut New England off from the other colonies.
“Taffy 3” at the Battle off Samar
That massive naval struggle reached its most dramatic moment off Samar.
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.
Texas admitted as twenty-eighth state
When Texas formally entered the Union on December 29th, 1845, a long-simmering question about the republic on the southwestern frontier finally came to a head.
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.
The Fall of Fort Washington
On November 16th, 1776, British and Hessian forces assaulted Fort Washington, the last major Continental stronghold on Manhattan Island.