Category: Military History

In just five minutes, the entire scope of the war had changed. Japan’s massive superiority in aircraft carriers was obliterated in Midway.

Their heroic actions in the Battle of Belleau Wood laid the foundation for the Marines to be known as one of the most feared fighting forces on the planet.

Brother Alex tells it like it is.

Through the summer and fall of 1943, the 29th Ranger Battalion earned the respect of the British Commandos.

In trying to save the men of USS Squalus the Navy rescuers would try tactics that had never been used before.

In an extraordinary feat of bravery and faith Desmond Doss saved 75 of his fellow soldiers attending to each one individually.

In November 1950 Ralph Puckett and his 50 Rangers repeatedly held off a Chinese battalion. Puckett’s actions that day made him a legend.

On Armed Forces Day we celebrate and honor all the men and women who serve on the U.S. military and are ready to give their lives to protect us.

Operation Nimrod put the legendary SAS firmly into the limelight and made them the terror of their enemies.

Fifty-four years ago, a group of commandos fought for their lives in a small valley in one of the boldest special operations missions of the Vietnam War.

Every so often extraordinary men emerge. Robert MacKenzie was such a man doing more than most to stop Communism.

Simo Häyhä was as deadly as a machine gun. His Soviet adversaries aptly called him “the White Death.”