[Featured image: Marines raise the Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi. Pictured are Sgt. Michael Strank, Cpl. Harlon Block, and Private First Class Franklin Sousley, who will all …
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22 February: This Day in Military History
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[Featured image: Marine Corps AV-8B “Harriers” preparing to take off from USS Nassau in 2006.] 1945: As Task Force 58’s carrier-based planes fly close air support for the Marines fighting …
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[Featured image: Lt. Col. John Glenn (USMC) boards the Friendship 7 capsule prior to launch on this date in 1962. (NASA photo) 1942: In “one of the most daring, if …
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[Featured image: Capt. Theodore S. Williams (USMC) – the greatest hitter that ever flew – spent four baseball seasons serving his country as a Marine aviator in World War II …
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[Featured image: “Remember the Maine!” USS Maine in Havana harbor, shortly before the explosion] 1862: A week after Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote capture …
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[Featured image: and F-15E “Strike Eagle” deploying flares over Afghanistan in 2008. (USAF photo)] 1778: The Continental sloop-of-war Ranger (the first of 10 so-named American warships) under the command of …
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[Featured image: Marines from 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment take cover during a firefight on Feb. 13, 2010 during the opening hours of the Battle of Marjah. (USMC photo)] 1861: …
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[Featured photo: the guided-missile submarine USS Cusk (SSG-348) firing a “Loon” missile in 1951] 1935: As the Navy’s helium-filled rigid airship USS Macon (ZRS-5) flies through a storm, its tail …
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[Featured image: Marine Corps “Hawk” missiles on Hill 327, near Da Nang Air Base in 1965] 1799: In the Caribbean, the American frigate Constellation spots the larger and more heavily …