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The first explosions rolled across Pearl Harbor like distant thunder, then slammed into the harbor with terrifying clarity. On the repair ship USS Vestal, moored outboard of the battleship USS Arizona, Commander Cassin Young felt his ship shudder as bombs found their mark up and down the fleet. Men sprinted for their battle stations, the air already thick with smoke, the rising whine of diving aircraft cutting throug
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
The New York class introduced the 14-inch gun to American battleships and carried two ships from the dreadnought race through both world wars.
A story of a nearly lost beach, scattered initiative, and how small groups clawed back the chance to win a war.
A two-ship American dreadnought class that concentrated twelve 14-inch guns in four triple turrets and carried the Standard-type battleship concept into a heavier, more mature form.
Grant’s campaign brought a Union army across the Mississippi, isolated Vicksburg, and turned two failed assaults into a sustained siege. This overview connects the river operations, land battles, civilian experience, and recipient citations without treating every action as the same engagement.
How a 22-year-old automatic rifleman kept firing after losing both legs, and saved his platoon in the Philippine mountains of 1945.
Amos Bradley — Landsman U.S. Navy Civil War Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Louisiana, USA
Darrell Robins Lindsey — Captain U.S. Army Air Corps World War II L'Isle Adam railroad bridge over the Seine River, France
David L. Bass — Seaman U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA
Donald Kirby Ross — Warrant Machinist U.S. Navy World War II Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory
George Herman O'Brien Jr — Second Lieutenant U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Korean War The Hook, Korea
Gurdon H. Barter — Landsman U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA