Destroyer USS Kearny torpedoed near Iceland
Even before a formal declaration of war against Germany, the United States Navy was escorting convoys in the North Atlantic, confronting the realities of submarine warfare.
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Dirk J. Vlug
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war.
Eric G. Gibson
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Italian campaign of World War II.
First B-29 raid on Tokyo from the Marianas
A year after Tehran, another kind of reach took shape when Boeing B-29 bombers lifted off from freshly built airfields in the Mariana Islands for the first raid on Tokyo from that direction.
First Battle of Saratoga (Freeman's Farm)
A year later and hundreds of miles to the north, American troops faced a British advance aimed at cutting New England off from the rest of the colonies.
First Flight from a Warship
On November 14th, 1910, civilian pilot Eugene Ely coaxed his fragile Curtiss pusher airplane down a narrow wooden platform built over the bow of the cruiser USS Birmingham off Hampton Roads, Virginia.
First Soviet atomic test
On August 29th, 1949, far away on the Eurasian steppe, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic device, abruptly ending the American monopoly on nuclear weapons.
Flag over Fort McHenry
Two days after Plattsburgh, another critical gateway came under fire when British warships bombarded Fort McHenry, guardian of Baltimore’s inner harbor.
Formal end of the Civil War
More than half a century later, another presidency faced the task of closing a different conflict. On August 20th, 1866, President Andrew Johnson issued a formal proclamation declaring that the insurrection in the former Confederate states was at an end, effectively marking the official conclusion of the Civil War. The great campaigns and bloody battles were already over, but this act drew a legal line under four yea
Fort Lee and Washington’s retreat
In the autumn of the Revolutionary War, George Washington’s army reeled from defeat around New York City.
Frederick W. Castle
A Medal of Honor story of selfless command in the skies of World War II.
George J. Hall
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and stubborn infantry grit in the Italian campaign of World War II.
Gettysburg cemetery dedication and address
Four months after the smoke cleared from the fields around Gettysburg, the small Pennsylvania town hosted a ceremony to dedicate a national cemetery for Union dead.
Harold Gonsalves
A Medal of Honor story of selfless sacrifice and battlefield leadership in World War II.
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty signed
At the turn of the twentieth century, American leaders viewed an isthmian canal as essential to both commerce and naval strategy.
Hershel W. Williams
A Medal of Honor story of relentless courage under fire in the Pacific War of World War II.
Hill 875 at Dak To
Two years later, the Central Highlands again saw fierce engagements as American commanders tried to disrupt enemy concentrations near the Cambodian and Laotian borders.
HIMARS
A story of long-range precision firepower told through the crews who drive a wheeled launcher into harm’s way and the targets that suddenly find nowhere to hide.