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After the Wilderness, the armies fought for roads, salients and supply routes around Spotsylvania. The Bloody Angle was the most remembered episode, but the battle also included Laurel Hill, Heth’s Salient and later attempts to turn or break the defenses.
A story of a winter surprise offensive and exhausted American units holding the line under crushing odds.
A story of long-range, low-level strike power told through the crews who trusted a swing-wing bomber to take them into the heart of modern air defenses and back again.
A story of reach, endurance, and silent pressure told through the boats, their crews, and the tonnage war beneath the Pacific.
In the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, another October date marked a different kind of strategic turning point.
A story of scattered night jumps, improvised small-unit fights, and how chaos still helped open the door into Fortress Europe.
Before dawn on Leyte, the world was reduced to shadows, muzzle flashes, and the flat crack of Japanese rifles. Company A of the 382nd Infantry had clawed its way to the edge of the enemy‑held Buri airstrip, then stalled. Out in front, less than a hundred yards away, Japanese soldiers were dug into bomb craters and a drainage ditch, their machine guns perfectly sighted on every patch of open ground. Anyone who tried t
By February 1945, much of Pearl Harbor had returned to the business of war. Battleships and carriers came and went; convoys formed up and headed west toward Iwo Jima and Okinawa. But in a side channel called West Loch, the harbor still hid a graveyard. Months earlier, a chain of explosions had torn through a cluster of tank landing ships loading ammunition for the Pacific campaign.
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge
The hill had a simple name on the map—Zebra Hill—but nothing about it was simple up close. Ahead of the assault troops the ground rose in a broken, rocky slope, pocked with shell holes and scraps of shattered brush. Hidden in that terrain were Japanese pillboxes and trenches positioned to command every approach. As the American infantrymen pushed forward, the hillside erupted with machine-gun bursts and grenades, tur
Not every turning point comes with smoke and cannon fire.
A boiler explosion aboard the gunboat Bennington on July 21, 1905 turned routine naval service into a mass-casualty emergency. Rescue, medical care, investigation and public mourning followed.
The B-17 was almost home when the choice arrived over the radio: bail out, or try to land a dying airplane. The long mission over Leipzig was behind them, but the bomber itself was torn open—control cables shot away, engines coughing, the fuselage peppered with holes where German fighters had raked the formation. In the cockpit, the copilot lay dead. The pilot, badly wounded, had been dragged from his seat and now dr
Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman Jr. — First Lieutenant U.S. Marine Corps Reserve World War II Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands
Alfred Leonard Wilson — Technician Grade Five U.S. Army World War II near Bezange la Petite, France
Alton W. Knappenberger — Private First Class U.S. Army World War II near Cisterna di Littoria, Italy
Arnold L. Bjorklund — First Lieutenant U.S. Army World War II Altavilla, Italy
Audie Leon Murphy — Second Lieutenant U.S. Army World War II near Holtzwihr, France