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The first explosions rolled across Pearl Harbor like distant thunder, then slammed into the harbor with terrifying clarity. On the repair ship USS Vestal, moored outboard of the battleship USS Arizona, Commander Cassin Young felt his ship shudder as bombs found their mark up and down the fleet. Men sprinted for their battle stations, the air already thick with smoke, the rising whine of diving aircraft cutting throug
Snow hangs heavy in the Ardennes forest, muting sound until a rifle cracks and splinters bark from a nearby tree. Private First Class Melvin Earl Biddle lies pressed into the freezing ground, the lead scout for an American parachute infantry company feeling every heartbeat echo in the stock of his rifle. Somewhere ahead, beyond the dark trunks and tangled undergrowth, German snipers have halted his company’s advance
It is the early hours of 10 March 1945 on Luzon in the Philippine Islands. The jungle around the Villa Verde Trail is black and close, broken only by a thin ridge that juts out from a larger hill. On that ridge, just ahead of the main American perimeter, three foxholes scrape a shallow line in the earth. In one of them lies Private First Class Thomas Eugene “Gene” Atkins of Company A, 127th Infantry. His job is simpl
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
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the opening hours of World War II in the Pacific.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Battle of the Bulge.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and stubborn defense in the Pacific war.
A Medal of Honor story of sacrifice and steadfast loyalty in the air war over Europe in World War II.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Philippines campaign of World War II.
A story of a fast, hard night strike to remove a dictator and reshape the balance of power in a vital crossroads of the Americas.
A story of survivability and instant readiness told through the crews who sat on alert and the crises they hoped would never come.
A story of a wooden frigate under fire, a nickname earned in cannon smoke, and a young navy learning it could stand toe-to-toe with the world’s best.