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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
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A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Normandy campaign.
On February 20th, 1962, Marine Corps officer John Glenn rode the spacecraft Friendship 7 into orbit atop an Atlas rocket, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth. The mission lasted only a few hours and three circuits of the planet, but it carried enormous importance in the Cold War competition for space. Glenn’s background as a fighter and test pilot linked early spaceflight directly to the skills and culture
A Medal of Honor story of sacrifice and moral courage in the Pacific war.
A Medal of Honor story of relentless leadership and courage under fire in World War II.
A Medal of Honor story of one-man courage under fire in the Philippines campaign of World War II.
The B-24 shook as it skimmed over the Romanian countryside, treetops flashing beneath the wings and church steeples knifing up toward the formation. Ahead, the sky over Ploesti was already boiling with black bursts of antiaircraft fire and thick columns of oily smoke. Colonel John Riley Kane, commanding the third element of heavy bombers in a massive low-level strike, peered through the haze and realized something wa
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and quiet sacrifice in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
In a televised address during the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced a partial halt to the bombing of North Vietnam and, in a stunning closing, declared that he would not seek nor accept his party’s nomination for another term. The speech came in the wake of the Tet Offensive, a widespread enemy campaign that had shaken public confidence despite heavy Communist losses.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Philippines campaign of World War II.
After the disastrous Union defeat at Fredericksburg and the swampy failure of the so-called “Mud March,” President Abraham Lincoln decided he could no longer keep Ambrose Burnside in charge of the Army of the Potomac. Orders issued in late January placed Major General Joseph Hooker, a combative and outspoken corps commander, in charge of the Union’s main eastern field army.
The black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima offered no cover, only shallow shell holes and jagged rock. On the morning of March 9, 1945, Platoon Sergeant Joseph R. Julian lay there with the rest of his company, pressed into the ash while enemy fire tore long furrows across the slope. Ahead of them, a line of Japanese trenches and pillboxes guarded a critical rise. Machine guns hammered from narrow firing slits.
Standing before a large crowd in West Berlin on June 26th, 1963, President John F. Kennedy used a few carefully chosen phrases to encapsulate American support for a divided city. The Berlin Wall, erected nearly two years earlier, loomed as a concrete symbol of Cold War confrontation, and residents of the Western sectors lived each day with the knowledge that Soviet and East German forces stood just across the barrier
A Medal of Honor story of audacious leadership under fire in the Pacific war of World War II.
Night still clung to the sea when the submarine slid in among the enemy ships. On the open bridge, spray cold against his face, Commander Lawson “Red” Ramage watched the black shapes of freighters and tankers loom out of the darkness. Their wakes glowed faintly, white scars across a heaving Pacific, while bursts of star shell and tracer fire clawed at the sky. Somewhere off Taiwan, a Japanese convoy was trying to sli
Medal of Honor, U.S. Army, World War II
On May 14th, 1804, a small flotilla of boats pulls away from Camp Dubois, near Saint Louis, and starts upriver into largely unmapped country. The party, known as the Corps of Discovery, is built around soldiers and noncommissioned officers of the United States Army under Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark. Their mission is to explore the recent Louisiana Purchase, seek a practical route toward the