Beyond the Call: Sergeant Jose Calugas at Culis, Bataan, 1942
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Philippines campaign of World War II.
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Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant Arthur Frederick DeFranzo near Vaubadon, France, 1944
A Medal of Honor story of sacrifice and battlefield leadership in the Normandy campaign of World War II.
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant Curtis F. Shoup at Tillet, Belgium, 1945
A Medal of Honor story of courage and sacrifice in World War II.
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant George John Hall at Anzio, 1944
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and stubborn infantry grit in the Italian campaign of World War II.
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant John C. Sjogren at San Jose Hacienda, 1945
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war of World War II.
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.
Beyond the Call: Technical Sergeant Beauford T. Anderson at Kakazu Ridge, Okinawa, 1945
A Medal of Honor story of stubborn courage under fire in the Pacific War.
Beyond the Call: Technical Sergeant Peter J. Dalessandro at Kalterherberg, 1944
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Battle of the Bulge.
Beyond the Call: Technician Fifth Grade Eric Gunnar Gibson at Isola Bella, 1944
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Italian campaign of World War II.
Bloody Omaha: How Small Groups of Soldiers Fought Their Way Off the Sand
A story of a nearly lost beach, scattered initiative, and how small groups clawed back the chance to win a war.
Burned-Out Convoys in the Desert: How Air Power Shattered Iraq’s Escape From Kuwait
A story of a retreat turned into a deadly gauntlet, and how air power reshaped the end of the Gulf War.
Cambrai: The First Great Tank Offensive
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
Climb to Suribachi: How Marines Seized Iwo Jima at Terrible Cost
A story of a volcanic ridge, two flags in the wind, and a fight that reshaped the Pacific war’s final months.
Corporal Melvin Mayfield and the Four Caves of Luzon
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.
F-117 Nighthawk over Baghdad, Operation Desert Storm
A story of stealth, precision, and shock told through the pilots who flew the first operational stealth attack aircraft into the heart of enemy air defenses.
Fire in the Shah-i-Kot Valley: How Anaconda Tested America’s New War on Terror
A story of high-altitude ambushes, hard-learned lessons, and how one valley fight reshaped a new kind of war.
Flying Home on Fire: First Lieutenant William R. Lawley Jr. and the B-17 That Wouldn’t Quit
How a 23-year-old pilot kept a burning Flying Fortress in the air long enough to save his crew over Nazi-occupied Europe.
Mark IV Tank
The Mark IV tank was not fast, refined, or comfortable, but it was the machine that helped make Cambrai one of the defining armored battles of the First World War. As I release my new book, Cambrai: The First Great Tank Offensive, alongside Season 1 of Famous Tank Battles: Cambrai, this article looks at the tank itself: the steel, smoke, machinery, and human endurance behind the famous attack. Cambrai is remembered b