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Recalling D-Day and the invasion of Normandy.
The Japanese attack on Manila, just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Korean War missions involving the Army's 24th Regiment are detailed.
Operation Lam Son 719, a 1971 South Vietnamese offensive (with U.S. air support) in Laos that was aimed at taking out a North Vietnamese supply route.
The first major battle of Desert Storm, at the Saudi Arabian coastal town of Al Khafji.
The first days of the Iraq War, when the 1st Marine Division raced to Baghdad.
On April 2, 1972 an American combat jet, call sign Bat 21, was blown apart by a North Vietnamese missile. Of the six men on that plane, just one survived, the navigator, Lt. Col. Iceal "Gene" Hambleton.
On September 4, 2004, while en route to recover a downed Kiowa helicopter and rescue its two pilots, troops from Scout Platoon and B Company of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment found themselves in the midst of a brutal firefight. Iraqi insurgents, hoping to capture the chopper and its crew, relentlessly bombarded the approaching U.S. forces with rocket-propelled grenades and 60mm mortar fire. Hear actual testimony from the men involved as they bring this particularly fierce engagement to life and reveal its surprising outcome.
