T-34 family
T-34 family — Soviet Union. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
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Merkava Mk 3/4/Barak modern family
Merkava Mk 3/4/Barak modern family — Israel. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
T-13 tank destroyer family
T-13 tank destroyer family — Belgium. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Charles E. Mower
The jungle ravine near Capoocan, on the island of Leyte, funneled sound like a drum. Machine guns hammered from the slopes, echoing off the trees. A thin stream cut the bottom of the gulch, its surface slapped into white splashes as bullets stitched across the water. Sergeant Charles E. Mower, just nineteen years old, stood in that stream with his squad of Company A, 34th Infantry Regiment, advancing into the teeth o
Francis B. Wai
The ramps drop into waist-deep surf and chaos. It is the morning of October 20, 1944, on a stretch of shoreline the maps call Red Beach. Ahead lies a narrow band of sand, beyond it a low palm grove and flooded rice paddies. Somewhere in that green fringe, Japanese guns have the approaches bracketed. As the first waves of soldiers tried to cross, the beach turned into a killing ground.
Frederick Walker Castle
High over Europe on Christmas Eve 1944, the sky is crowded with contrails. Hundreds upon hundreds of heavy bombers push east toward German airfields, the engines’ steady thunder mixing with clipped radio calls. At their head is a single Flying Fortress, the air commander’s ship, where Brigadier General Frederick Walker Castle studies the instruments and the grey cloud deck below.
George John Hall
The fields near Anzio were bare and unforgiving—flat, freshly plowed earth broken only by shallow furrows and a few low dikes. On a May morning in 1944, Staff Sergeant George John Hall lay pressed into that thin cover with the rest of his company, the dirt shaking under the hammering of German machine guns. Every time a man tried to crawl forward, grazing fire stitched the ground in front of him. Sniper rounds cracke
Harold W. Bauer
The fuel gauges in Harold Bauer’s Wildcat fighter were already edging toward empty when the coastline of Guadalcanal slid beneath his wings. He had just finished leading a long, tense, overwater flight of Marine fighters up from Espiritu Santo, six hundred miles of nothing but ocean and cloud. Henderson Field, the hard-bitten airstrip the Marines called home, lay ahead as a thin strip of coral and mud, promising rest
Arsenal: M10 Wolverine Tank Destroyer in the European Theater, World War II
A story of mobile firepower and thin armor told through the crews who fought from its open turret and the enemies who tried to stop it.
Beyond the Call: Captain Francis B. Wai at Red Beach, Leyte, 1944
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war.
Beyond the Call: Lieutenant Colonel Harold W. Bauer at Guadalcanal, 1942
A Medal of Honor story of relentless courage in the skies over the Solomon Islands in World War II.
Beyond the Call: Sergeant Charles E. Mower at Leyte, 1944
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war.
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant George John Hall at Anzio, 1944
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and stubborn infantry grit in the Italian campaign of World War II.
Corporal Melvin Mayfield and the Four Caves of Luzon
Two pinned-down Filipino companies, a barren ridge in the Philippine highlands, and one American corporal who decided to move forward when everyone else was stuck.
M41 Walker Bulldog in Armored Reconnaissance, the Cold War
A story of mobility, firepower, and adaptation told through a light tank and the crews who drove it into the heart of the Cold War’s proxy wars.