How the strategic location of the diamond-shaped peninsula proved too much for the Germans.

The Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO) in the European Theater was one of America’s bloodiest campaigns.

Mexican American Cleto Rodriguez brazenly attacked an enemy fortress to save his platoon during the Battle of Manila, heroics for which he received the nation’s highest military honor.

In the bloodiest of battles in Marine Corps history, 27 Marines and sailors were awarded the Medal of Honor for action on Iwo Jima. No other campaign surpassed that number.

The African American 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion earned a Presidential Unit Citation for its heroic stand in France in December 1944, and a Medal of Honor in 1997 posthumously awarded to Major Charles Thomas.