Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant Ysmael Reyes Villegas at Villa Verde Trail, 1945
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and ultimate sacrifice in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
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A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and ultimate sacrifice in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
A Medal of Honor story of stubborn courage under fire in the Pacific War.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Battle of the Bulge.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Italian campaign of World War II.
A story of an urban raid that turned into a street-by-street survival fight and how it reshaped American intervention abroad.
A story of a nearly lost beach, scattered initiative, and how small groups clawed back the chance to win a war.
A story of firepower, protection, and situational awareness told through the soldiers who rode into battle inside the Bradley’s armored hull.
A story of a frozen fighting withdrawal and how it reshaped the war in Korea.
A story of air cavalry, hidden armies, and a brutal valley fight that previewed the grinding war still to come.
A story of a retreat turned into a deadly gauntlet, and how air power reshaped the end of the Gulf War.
A story of rugged, go-anywhere airlift told through the crews who flew into short, rough strips under fire and the troops who depended on them.
A story of reach and reliability told through the crews and missions that defined it.
A story of a jungle airstrip, thin lines of Marines and soldiers, and how local air power reshaped the Pacific war.
To mark the release of my new book, Cambrai: The First Great Tank Offensive, the first volume in the Famous Tank Battles series, this article looks back at the battle that helped reveal the future of mechanized warfare. Fought in November Nineteen Seventeen, Cambrai was not simply a dramatic debut for the tank on a large scale. It was a battlefield experiment in surprise, coordination, technology, and adaptation, whe
A story of a volcanic ridge, two flags in the wind, and a fight that reshaped the Pacific war’s final months.
A story of exposed convoys, hidden fighters, and the soldiers and medics who kept moving through an urban kill zone.
Two pinned-down Filipino companies, a barren ridge in the Philippine highlands, and one American corporal who decided to move forward when everyone else was stuck.
A story of a desperate stand in the woods and how it changed the wider war.