On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most decisive
U.S. victories against Japan during World War II—began.
During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S.
Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft
carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the
previously invincible Japanese navy.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
The Golden Gate Bridge, which spans the San Francisco
Bay and connects the city to its northern suburbs, is one
of the world’s most famous structures. Its construction
78 years ago over a deep, treacherous channel was a
marvel of modern engineering.
In this photo, pedestrians walk across the bridge on May
27, 1937 — one day before it opened to vehicular traffic.
Bismarck firing at HMS Prince of Wales.
On May 24, 1941, Germany’s largest and most modern of Germany’s
battleships battleship, the Bismarck, sank the pride of the British
fleet, HMS Hood.
Less than 10 minutes after the British opened fire, a shell from
Bismarck struck Hood near her aft ammunition magazines.
Soon afterwards, Hood exploded and sank within three minutes,
with the loss of all but three of her crew. Prince of Wales
continued to exchange fire with Bismarck but suffered serious malfunctions in her main armament.
(FOX NEWS) – A handgun carried into the Battle of Little Bighorn
by a legendary U.S. Army cavalry officer is headlining a high-
profile firearms auction in Bedford, Texas this weekend.
The Colt single-action revolver belonged to Captain Myles Moylan,
(52) commander of A Troop, 7th Cavalry, later a Medal of Honor
recipient — and has an estimated price of up to $120,000.
Kevin Hogan, president of Rock Island Auction Co., told Fox News Digital,"It’s just an amazing piece of American history,"
"Let Valor Not Fail" by Dan Nance, Battle of Hamburger
Hill, 1969.
Hamburger Hill was the scene of an intense and controversial
battle during the Vietnam War. Known to military planners as
Hill 937 (a reference to its height in meters), the solitary peak
is located in the dense jungles of the A Shau Valley of Vietnam,
about a mile from the border with Laos.
The Vietnamese referred to the hill as Dong Ap Bia (or Ap Bia
Mountain, “the mountain of the crouching beast”). Though the
hill had no real tactical significance, taking the hill was part of
Operation Apache Snow, a U.S. military sweep of the A Shau
Valley. The purpose of the operation was to cut off North
Vietnamese infiltration from Laos and enemy threats to the
cities of Hue and Da Nang.
