When Jackie Robinson Stood Up Against Injustice in the U.S. Army
In 1944, the future baseball star was a young lieutenant who refused to move to the back of a shuttle bus, initiating a series of events that resulted in his court-martial.
To Honor the Fallen: Veterans in 1984 Organized a Triathlon to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
How a team of four veteran athletes went on a cross-country quest to the Vietnam Wall to honor the fallen
A Turn for the Worse: The 1775 Ambush at Bloody Angle
After the ‘shot heard round the world,’ as Redcoats retreated to Boston, Patriots sprang an ambush at a bend in the road known since as the Bloody Angle
This Commander Led Two Underperforming Bomb Groups to Storied Firsts Against Germany
With tough love and conviction, Colonel Frank A. Armstrong helped make history high above Europe
Russia vs. China: How Conflict at the Sino-Soviet Border Nearly Started Nuclear War
Two Communist superpowers traded shots over a tiny island in a clash with international implications
‘Circle of Iron and Fire’: Americans in Paris During the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War
Americans trapped within Paris during the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War witnessed chaos and compassion, revolt and an eventual return to republican ideals
Death From Above: How a U.S. Navy Force Battled a Kamikaze Onslaught
Captured by photographer Herman Schnipper, the USS Astoria endured the three-hour frenzy during the bloody fight for Okinawa
Samurai Invasion: Japan’s 1609 Conquest of Ryukyu
An elite corps of Japan's samurai warriors launched an assault on the island realm of Ryukyu in 1609
Shot Down in France, An American Airman’s Fate Remained a Mystery for Decades
Lincoln Bundy was assumed to have died shortly after D-Day. Fifty years would pass before his family learned otherwise
How the Longbow Won the Battle of Crug Mawr
In 1136 a Welsh army defeated a fierce Norman force with a unique weapon that changed the course of military history - the longbow
A Sad Day of Parting for ‘Geronimo’s Apaches’
In 1913 newly freed Chiricahua Apache prisoners had to choose whether to remain in Oklahoma or move to a reservation in New Mexico
Nazi Sympathizer in the U.S. Army
Dale Maple helped two German POWs escape, plotted to fight against the U.S., and faced a grim reckoning.
Raw Courage: Clerks, Cooks and Mechanics Fought Off Viet Cong Sappers
Soldiers in noncombat roles repelled an attack by communist sappers, the most highly trained of all North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces
Enemies to Friends: How Two Fighter Pilots Over Vietnam Buried the Hatchet
Thirty-six years after clashing in a dogfight over North Vietnam, two fighter pilots reconciled
Translating for Yamashita, the ‘Tiger of Malaya’
In 1945 a young Marine with an aptitude for languages landed in the midst of a war crimes trial with international ramifications
Reconciling Differences in Vietnam
In 1995, the U.S. and Vietnam decided it was time to put old animosities aside
