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.
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Anton L. Krotiak
The air over Balete Pass crackled with small-arms fire and the flat explosions of grenades. On the steep slope of Hill B, a narrow finger of ground jutting out above the zigzag road that threaded the Caraballo Mountains, five exhausted American infantrymen hugged the earth around a captured Japanese trench. It was 8 May 1945, deep in the Battle of Luzon, and Private First Class Anton L.
Armored combat in the Gulf War
A story of high-tech American armor meeting Soviet-designed tanks in the desert and how it reshaped modern ground warfare.
Battle of Huế
A story of street-to-street fighting, shattered assumptions, and how one city battle reshaped the Vietnam War.
Dale Merlin Hansen
The ridge ahead looked less like a battlefield and more like a shattered hillside of rock, clay, and smoke. It was early May 1945 on Okinawa, and the Marines of Company E had stalled below Hill 60. Japanese machine guns chattered from hidden bunkers. Mortar rounds crashed into the slope, showering the men with dirt and splinters of coral. Every attempt to move up the ridge drew a fresh burst of fire that pinned them
Eric Gunnar Gibson
The winter sky over the Anzio beachhead was a low, gray lid, pressing the sound of guns back down onto the men below. Along a shallow drainage ditch called the Fossa Femminamorta, muddy water slid past tufts of grass and shattered reeds. Somewhere ahead, beyond the next bend, German machine guns covered the open fields that stretched away from the ditch, anchoring a strongpoint that threatened the entire attack.
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.
New York class
The New York class introduced the 14-inch gun to American battleships and carried two ships from the dreadnought race through both world wars.
Omaha Beach landings
A story of a nearly lost beach, scattered initiative, and how small groups clawed back the chance to win a war.
Opening air campaign of Operation Desert Storm
A story of stealth jets, precision strikes, and a regime suddenly in the dark, and how it changed the wider war.
Ova A. Kelley
Before dawn on Leyte, the world was reduced to shadows, muzzle flashes, and the flat crack of Japanese rifles. Company A of the 382nd Infantry had clawed its way to the edge of the enemy‑held Buri airstrip, then stalled. Out in front, less than a hundred yards away, Japanese soldiers were dug into bomb craters and a drainage ditch, their machine guns perfectly sighted on every patch of open ground. Anyone who tried t
Pusan Perimeter
A story of a shrinking beachhead, exhausted troops, and how their stand kept South Korea from collapsing in 1950.
Sadr City operations
A story of exposed convoys, hidden fighters, and the soldiers and medics who kept moving through an urban kill zone.
Vicksburg Campaign and Siege
Grant’s campaign brought a Union army across the Mississippi, isolated Vicksburg, and turned two failed assaults into a sustained siege. This overview connects the river operations, land battles, civilian experience, and recipient citations without treating every action as the same engagement.
William H. Thomas
How a 22-year-old automatic rifleman kept firing after losing both legs, and saved his platoon in the Philippine mountains of 1945.
Alexander Bradley
Alexander Bradley — Landsman U.S. Navy Interim 1871 - 1899 off Cowes, Isle of Wight, England
Edward R. Bowman
Edward R. Bowman — Quartermaster U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA
Eric Gunnar Gibson
Eric Gunnar Gibson — Technician Fifth Grade U.S. Army World War II near Isola Bella, Italy