Defense of Little Round Top
A story of a desperate hilltop stand, a fixed bayonet charge, and how it helped turn a Civil War invasion back.
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Doolittle Raid
A story of a long-shot bombing raid, a borrowed carrier deck, and how one gamble shifted the course of a global war.
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.
Joseph R. Julian
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.
Landing at Veracruz, Mexico
In the turbulence of the Mexican Revolution, the United States undertook a controversial intervention that highlighted both its naval reach and the risks of limited operations ashore. A diplomatic clash known as the Tampico Affair, combined with concerns over an incoming arms shipment to the regime of Victoriano Huerta, led Washington to order a seizure of the port of Veracruz.
M104 Wolverine Bridgelayer
A story of mobility under armor, told through the engineers and armored brigades that depended on a bridge to keep the advance moving.
Meuse-Argonne final offensive push
As the First World War neared its close, American forces in France were still locked in brutal combat.
Mikasa
Mikasa served as Admiral Togo flagship in the Russo-Japanese War, survived battle and a magazine explosion, and became the only preserved pre-dreadnought battleship.
Mikasa class
A single-ship Japanese pre-dreadnought built in Britain for the Six-Six Fleet program and designed around the balanced heavy and secondary batteries of the late pre-dreadnought era.
Monitor class
A radical low-freeboard ironclad built around a steam-powered rotating turret. The single ship gave its name to an entire family of later coastal and riverine warships.
Pennsylvania class
A two-ship American dreadnought class that concentrated twelve 14-inch guns in four triple turrets and carried the Standard-type battleship concept into a heavier, more mature form.
Second Battle of Sabine Pass
Along the Gulf Coast, Union planners sought to open a route into Texas by sending a naval expedition and troop transports toward Sabine Pass at the border with Louisiana.
Seymour W. Terry
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
Siege of Petersburg
The struggle for Petersburg combined failed assaults, trench warfare, railway interdiction, and repeated battles on an expanding front. This overview follows the campaign from June 1864 through the April 1865 evacuation, preserving the distinctions between individual award actions.
United States Air Force becomes a separate service
In the aftermath of global war, American leaders restructured their armed forces to meet emerging strategic realities.
United States Naval School opens at Annapolis
Not every turning point comes with smoke and cannon fire.
USS Arizona
USS Arizona served in the U.S. battle fleet for twenty-five years before her destruction at Pearl Harbor. Her wreck and memorial now connect an individual ship, its crew, and the national memory of 7 December 1941.
USS Iowa
Lead ship of the Iowa class, with service in World War II, Korea, and the renewed battleship program of the 1980s.