Stacker scoured primary documents, news reports, and studies to bring you U.S. Marines history from the year you were born, stretching back to 1920.
Stacker scoured primary documents, news reports, and studies to bring you U.S. Marines history from the year you were born, stretching back to 1920.
In retrospect I have loved serving in most of the places I have throughout my military career. As a Chaplain with only one exception I had great relationships with my commanders and the Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, the men and women of Allied nations, and members of the State Depart...
Furthermore, therereportingemerged in 2020 thatSaif al-Adel, Al-Qaeda’s second highest-ranking member afterAyman al-Zawahiri, returned to Iran having left in the years after the September 11 attacks. A year later, the United Nations (UN) confirmed that Saif al-Adelwas once again residingin...
United States of America (1945-1946) Demolition Tank – 1 Built During World War II, US demolition crews faced the critical task of dismantling enemy fortifications and obstacles, sometimes under fire. They lacked a dedicated vehicle for this in the US arsenal. Various tools, like dozer blade ...
Krulak, considered a visionary by fellow Marines, was the author of First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps and the father of the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps, Charles C. Krulak. Wesley Clark Grand Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic...
Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager became the first woman to lead any U.S. Army infantry when Maj. Gen. Mark Malanka retired from the California National Guard's 40th Infantry Division on June 29, 2019. The division was led by men since its inception in 1917. Yeager was promoted in 2016 to brig...
While a series of war tribunals and trials was organized, many of the high-ranking officials and doctors who devised and respectively performed the experiments were pardoned and never brought to justice. As many as 12,000 people, most of them Chinese, died in Unit 731 alone and many more ...
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first Black military attache, and third Black graduate of the United States Military Academy. The son of former slaves, Young led the U.S. Cavalry into Mexico in Pershing's Punitive Expedition. At the time of his death in 1922, he was the highest-ranking Black officer in the Regular Army...