WEAPONS & WEAPON SYSTEMS

A story of mobility under armor, told through the engineers and armored brigades that depended on a bridge to keep the advance moving.

A story of long-range firepower and survivability told through the crews who rode this tracked gun into modern armored battles.

A story of speed, improvisation, and thin armor told through the crews and battles that defined it.

A story of firepower and adaptation told through the crews who took the Pershing from the ruins of Germany to the hills of Korea.

A story of adaptation, reliability, and hard lessons in steel, told through the crews who fought from its turret.

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.

A story of airborne firepower and fragile protection told through the crews and battles that defined it.

A story of survivability, firepower, and adaptation told through the Marine crews and desert battles that defined it.

A story of nuclear firepower and uneasy deterrence told through the crews, observers, and test shots that defined the United States’ only nuclear gun.

A story of hard-learned recovery, brute-force engineering, and keeping broken armor in the fight when everything else says it should be left behind.

One year later, on September 28th, 1781, a combined American and French army moved out from around Williamsburg and advanced toward British positions at Yorktown, Virginia.

The Mark IV tank was not fast, refined, or comfortable, but it was the machine that helped make Cambrai one of the defining armored battles of the First World War.

In Europe, the fortified city of Metz had long been viewed as a tough nut to crack, with layers of forts dating back to earlier German rule.

As the First World War neared its close, American forces in France were still locked in brutal combat.

On September 26th, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces launched the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest United States campaign of the First World War and one of the biggest in the nation’s military history.

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 firepower, adaptation, and endurance told through the gun crews, lookouts, and engineers who carried these older battleships into the heart of the Pacific War.

A story of survivability and silent reach told through the crews who vanish beneath the waves and the adversaries they deter.

A story of reach, endurance, and compromise told through the crews who rode these lean escorts along the Cold War’s front-line sea lanes.

A story of stealth jets, precision strikes, and a regime suddenly in the dark, and how it changed the wider war.

On December 16th, 1998, American and British forces began a four-day air and missile campaign against Iraqi targets known as Operation Desert Fox.

A story of low-and-slow fire support, told through the aircrews who flew the Bronco into the jungle fight and the troops who depended on them.

By February 1945, much of Pearl Harbor had returned to the business of war. Battleships and carriers came and went; convoys formed up and headed west toward Iwo Jima and Okinawa. But in a side channel called West Loch, the harbor still hid a graveyard. Months earlier, a chain of explosions had torn through a cluster of tank landing ships loading ammunition for the Pacific campaign.

A story of heavy guns, armored decks, and crews who learned to fight an early-twentieth-century battleship through a very different kind of war.