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In the early 1960s, United States leaders sought to topple the new Cuban government through covert means rather than open war. On April 17th, 1961, a force of Cuban exiles, trained and supported by American agencies, landed along Cuba’s southern coast at the Bay of Pigs. The plan called for air strikes, a beachhead, and hoped-for uprisings inside the country, but execution problems and rapid government response under
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 ridge near San Jose Hacienda rose steep and stubborn out of the jungle, a wall of earth and rock that dominated the valley floor. Somewhere up there, hidden in spider holes—small, camouflaged fighting pits—and pillboxes, Japanese soldiers waited behind interlocking bands of machine-gun fire. To reach the crest, Company I of the 160th Infantry Regiment had only one narrow approach, a trail that funneled men into a
AMX-30E — Spain / France. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Ikv 91 — Sweden. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Magach — Israel / United States. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Panzer 68 — Switzerland. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Arthur O. Beyer — Corporal U.S. Army World War II near Arloncourt, Belgium
Clarence Eugene Sasser — Private First Class U.S. Army Vietnam War Ding Tuong Province, Republic of Vietnam
Clyde Lee Choate — Staff Sergeant U.S. Army World War II Bruyeres, France
Edward C. Allworth — Captain U.S. Army World War I Clery-le-Petit, France
Follett Johnson — Corporal U.S. Army U.S. Civil War New Hope Church, Georgia, USA
John Carleton Sjogren — Staff Sergeant U.S. Army World War II near San Jose Hacienda, Negros, Philippine Islands
John Edward Butts — Second Lieutenant U.S. Army World War II Normandy, France
John H. Wageman — Private U.S. Army Civil War Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Leonard Bert Keller — Sergeant U.S. Army Vietnam War Ap Bac Zone, Republic of Vietnam
Matt Louis Urban — Captain U.S. Army World War II France & Belgium
Raymond Richard “Buzzer” Wright — Specialist Fourth Class U.S. Army Vietnam War Ap Bac Zone, Republic of Vietnam