Meuse-Argonne final offensive push
As the First World War neared its close, American forces in France were still locked in brutal combat.
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Meuse-Argonne Offensive opens
On September 26th, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces launched the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest United States campaign of the First World War and one of the biggest in the nation’s military history.
Minuteman III ICBM
A story of survivability and instant readiness told through the crews who sat on alert and the crises they hoped would never come.
New Mexico-class Battleships
A story of firepower, adaptation, and endurance told through the gun crews, lookouts, and engineers who carried these older battleships into the heart of the Pacific War.
new vision for missile defense
During a period of renewed Cold War tension, the United States sought ways to counter the enormous arsenals of intercontinental ballistic missiles held by both superpowers. On March 23rd, 1983, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation and called for a long-term research effort into defensive systems that could intercept and destroy incoming nuclear weapons.
Ohio-class SSBNs
A story of survivability and silent reach told through the crews who vanish beneath the waves and the adversaries they deter.
Oliver Hazard Perry–Class Frigates
A story of reach, endurance, and compromise told through the crews who rode these lean escorts along the Cold War’s front-line sea lanes.
Opening air campaign of Operation Desert Storm
A story of stealth jets, precision strikes, and a regime suddenly in the dark, and how it changed the wider war.
Operation Desert Fox strikes Iraq
On December 16th, 1998, American and British forces began a four-day air and missile campaign against Iraqi targets known as Operation Desert Fox.
OV-10 Bronco
A story of low-and-slow fire support, told through the aircrews who flew the Bronco into the jungle fight and the troops who depended on them.
Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg
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.
Pennsylvania-class Battleships
A story of heavy guns, armored decks, and crews who learned to fight an early-twentieth-century battleship through a very different kind of war.
Raids on North Vietnamese fuel depots
In the middle years of the Vietnam War, American leaders sought ways to weaken the enemy’s ability to move troops and supplies down long, fragile lines of communication. On June 29th, 1966, U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft carried out major attacks on petroleum storage facilities near Hanoi and Haiphong, striking targets that had previously been off-limits or only lightly hit.
RC-135 Rivet Joint
A story of reach, listening power, and adaptation told through the crews who rode a jetliner-turned-spyplane into Iraq’s most dangerous airspace.
Relief of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge
In the bitter winter of 1944, the Belgian town of Bastogne became a focal point of the last major German offensive in the West.
Richard Eller Cowan
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge
Sadr City operations
A story of exposed convoys, hidden fighters, and the soldiers and medics who kept moving through an urban kill zone.
Salerno landings and the Italian armistice
In early September 1943, the strategic picture in the Mediterranean shifted rapidly.