Arsenal: KC-135 Stratotanker in Global Air Operations, the Cold War and Beyond
A story of reach and endurance told through the tanker crews who turned fuel into combat power across half a century of wars and crises.
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Arsenal: RC-135 Rivet Joint over the Gulf, Operation Desert Storm
A story of reach, listening power, and adaptation told through the crews who rode a jetliner-turned-spyplane into Iraq’s most dangerous airspace.
Arsenal: KC-135 Stratotanker in Global Air Operations, the Cold War and Beyond
Global Air Operations, the Cold War and Beyond
Arsenal: RC-135 Rivet Joint over the Gulf, Operation Desert Storm
the Gulf, Operation Desert Storm
Chinese Farm: Episode 17 — The 35th Paratroopers
Chinese Farm: Episode 17 — The 35th Paratroopers. Famous Tank Battles — open the episode listing and listening link.
Legacy: F-35 Lightning II
Legacy: F-35 Lightning II. Dispatch Audio Edition — open the episode listing and listening link.
ANZUS security treaty signed in San Francisco
In the early Cold War, the United States joined with Australia and New Zealand to sign a mutual security pact known as the ANZUS treaty.
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
On the morning of August 6th, 1945, a B-29 bomber of the United States Army Air Forces dropped the first atomic bomb used in war over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In seconds, a blast and firestorm devastated much of the urban area, killing tens of thousands of people outright and leaving many more injured or exposed to radiation.
Battle of Groton Heights in Connecticut
Near the end of the Revolutionary War, British forces raided the harbor town of New London, Connecticut, to burn supplies and shipping that supported the American cause.
Battle of Jonesborough near Atlanta
As the Atlanta Campaign ground on, Union forces under Major General William T.
Creation of the Manhattan Engineer District
On August 13th, 1942, the United States Army Corps of Engineers officially established the Manhattan Engineer District, better known by the shortened phrase that would later describe the atomic bomb project. The district’s creation gave the Army formal responsibility for coordinating a vast, secret effort that drew together physicists, chemists, industrial firms, and military planners.
F-16 Fighting Falcon
A story of agility, survivability, and reach told through the pilots and maintainers who turned a lightweight fighter into a global workhorse.
First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia
On this day delegates from twelve colonies gathered in Philadelphia to respond to what they called the Coercive or Intolerable Acts, punitive measures imposed after the Boston Tea Party.
Founding of the USO
As the world edged closer to global conflict, American leaders recognized that citizen-soldiers and long-service professionals alike would need support far beyond rifles and rations. On February 4th, 1941, several existing civilian welfare organizations joined together under a new umbrella: the United Service Organizations, or USO.
George John Hall
The fields near Anzio were bare and unforgiving—flat, freshly plowed earth broken only by shallow furrows and a few low dikes. On a May morning in 1944, Staff Sergeant George John Hall lay pressed into that thin cover with the rest of his company, the dirt shaking under the hammering of German machine guns. Every time a man tried to crawl forward, grazing fire stitched the ground in front of him. Sniper rounds cracke
Germany invades Poland
When German forces crossed into Poland on this date, they triggered a European war that would ultimately reshape American security policy.
Japan surrenders aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
On this day representatives of Imperial Japan signed an instrument of surrender on the deck of the battleship Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay and surrounded by Allied warships.
John D. Bulkeley
John D.