Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada
Just two days after the Beirut bombing, American forces launched a very different operation in the Caribbean.
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Orchard Knob and Chattanooga
While East Tennessee struggled under siege, another crucial city lay under Confederate observation at Chattanooga, a gateway through the mountains into the Deep South.
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.
OV-10 Bronco
A story of low-and-slow fire support, told through the aircrews who flew the Bronco into the jungle fight and the troops who depended on them.
Owen F. P. Hammerberg
Beyond the Call: Medal of Honor Stories — Dispatch: U.S.
Patrick L. Kessler
A Medal of Honor story of relentless courage under fire in the Italian campaign of World War II.
Pennsylvania-class Battleships
A story of heavy guns, armored decks, and crews who learned to fight an early-twentieth-century battleship through a very different kind of war.
Peter J. Dalessandro
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Battle of the Bulge.
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.
President William McKinley shot in Buffalo
At a public reception in Buffalo, New York, President McKinley was shot by an assassin, suffering wounds that would prove fatal days later.
RC-135 Rivet Joint
A story of reach, listening power, and adaptation told through the crews who rode a jetliner-turned-spyplane into Iraq’s most dangerous airspace.
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.
Return to the Philippines at Leyte
Two years later, American forces carried that growing momentum back to the Philippines.
Richard E. Cowan
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge
Robert M. Viale
A Medal of Honor story of sacrifice and courage in World War II’s Pacific campaign.
Roosevelt’s Navy Day address
In the autumn before formal American entry into the Second World War, United States warships were already escorting convoys and trading shots with German submarines in the North Atlantic.
Salerno landings and the Italian armistice
In early September 1943, the strategic picture in the Mediterranean shifted rapidly.
Sand Creek Massacre
On the High Plains of the Colorado Territory, a column of Colorado volunteer cavalry descended on a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment along Sand Creek.