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After the experience of two world wars, during which women had served in large numbers in temporary or auxiliary roles, the United States took a major step toward making that service permanent. On June 12th, 1948, the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act was signed into law, granting women the right to serve as regular and reserve members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and newly independent Air Force.
On May 14th, 1942, in the midst of global war, the United States formally establishes the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. The new organization allows women to volunteer for service with the Army in noncombat roles such as clerks, drivers, telephone operators, and mechanics. While members are not yet fully integrated soldiers, the Corps represents a major change in how the Army taps the skills of the population.
On December 29th, 1890, troops of the 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Miniconjou Lakota near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, seeking to disarm them amid fears surrounding the Ghost Dance movement.
Even as troops fought through Manila’s streets, the political leaders of the major Allied powers gathered thousands of miles away to shape the end of the war and the uneasy peace to follow. On February 4th, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin opened the Yalta Conference in the Crimean resort city of the same name.
A story of high-tech American armor meeting Soviet-designed tanks in the desert and how it reshaped modern ground warfare.
A story of a lopsided clash where earthworks, frontier rifles, and bad timing shattered a veteran British army and reshaped a young republic’s confidence.
A story of a blood-soaked cornfield, a shallow creek, and a battle that reshaped the Union’s war.
A story of night-hunting firepower and battlefield reach told through the crews who flew it into the dark.
A story of speed, reach, and improvisation told through the flight decks, hangar bays, and air groups that fought from these big decks.
A story of adaptation, reliability, and hard lessons in steel, told through the crews who fought from its turret.
A story of reach and persistence told through the pilots who rode the thin air and the targets they photographed far below.
A story of a desperate hilltop stand, a fixed bayonet charge, and how it helped turn a Civil War invasion back.
A Medal of Honor story of selfless command in the skies of World War II.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war.
A Medal of Honor story of relentless leadership under fire in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
A Medal of Honor story of relentless leadership and courage under fire in World War II.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the opening hours of World War II in the Pacific.
A Medal of Honor story of audacious leadership under fire in the Pacific war of World War II.