U.S. Marine Corps Is Getting Back to Its Amphibious Roots
After more than a decade of being tied down in two prolonged land conflicts, during which it accumulated the heavy …
Conflicts & Operations
The Luftwaffe Almost Downs Jimmy Doolittle
On Nov. 5, 1942, as the Torch convoy steamed through a gale, Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff …
Cuban Missile Crisis: Black Saturday, Agreement, and Lessons Learned
When the sun rose over the Eastern Time Zone on Oct. 27, 1962, the events that would almost cause a …
P-51 Mustang’s Switch to Merlin Engine Made it the World-beater of World War II
Even experts on World War II don’t always remember hearing about an American fighter named the XP-78.
But almost every …
Destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Pulled Highly Visible Duty During the Cuban Missile Crisis
When the U.S. Navy implemented President John F. Kennedy‘s quarantine of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, one warship in …
Cuban Missile Crisis: Consensus, Announcement and DEFCON-2
The two weeks following the discovery of a Soviet R-12/SS-4 Sandal Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) regiment in Western Cuba …
U-2 Pilot Maj. Rudy Anderson: The Only American Killed During the Cuban Missile Crisis
An American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft high over Cuba took photos of Soviet missile sites capable of launching nuclear warheads at …
Cuban Missile Crisis Anniversary: Discovery
From the moment the first ships of the Anadyr deployment fleet left their moorings, they sailed straight into a network …
U.S. Navy Missile Defense: Getting Surface-to-Air Missile Development Started
While the U.S. Navy has enjoyed unprecedented success in developing surface-to-air missiles for fleet air defense the path to success …
Cuban Missile Crisis: Operation Anadyr
Operation Anadyr, named after a river in Far Eastern Russia, was the largest out-of-area deployment ever made by the Soviets, …