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In September 1918 a German machine gun shot George Patton through the thigh as he led the 304th Tank Brigade forward in the Meuse-Argonne....
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In September 1918 a German machine gun shot George Patton through the thigh as he led the 304th Tank Brigade forward in the Meuse-Argonne....
In May 1942 the skipper of USS Skipjack watched a Mark 14 pass under a Japanese ship. US Navy Rear Adm. Charles Lockwood’s net...
On March 19, 1945, a Japanese dive bomber hit USS Franklin with two bombs about 50 miles from Japan. The Essex-class carrier, “Big Ben,”...
German officers brought a two-hour ultimatum to the 327th Glider Infantry south of Bastogne. McAuliffe’s typed reply was “NUTS!” Col. Bud Harper told them...
Miami had arrived at Portsmouth on March 1, 2012 for a routine 20-month overhaul. The fire took the crew quarters, command and control, and...
USS Nevada: She was the only American battleship to get underway on December 7 — a deck officer had ordered a second boiler lit...
Japan could not out-build the United States and knew it, so it built one ship no American battleship could match: 863 feet, 72,000 tons,...
On May 14, 1916, George Patton used three cars in a raid near San Miguelito and killed Julio Cardenas. In 1943 his Seventh Army...
George C. Marshall put Dwight D. Eisenhower in War Plans in 1941. Ike then ran Operation Torch, Sicily, and Italy before commanding Operation Overlord...
George C. Marshall moved 600,000 U.S. troops in the Meuse-Argonne, then as Army Chief of Staff from 1939 to 1945 built the force Eisenhower...