The Battle of Okinawa began on April 1st, 1945, as World War Two was approaching its end. Okinawa resulted in the death of 49,000 Americans and 150,000+ Japanese, including civilians.

In spite of WWI leaders’ denial of the Pope’s plea for a Christmas ceasefire, frontline soldiers along both sides of the western front decided on a Christmas Truce and met halfway in no man’s land, exchanging cigarettes, haircuts and even a soccer match.

The USS Indianapolis successfully delivered the Uranium 235 needed in the atomic weapons used against Japan before Japanese submarines sank the vessel, ultimately leaving 317 of the nearly 1,200 men having survived 4-days of treachery at sea.

The Cold War was a 45-year period when the Soviet Union and the United States repeatedly faced the threat of mutually-assured nuclear annihilation including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and numerous proxy wars.

In the spring of 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant ordered five simultaneous offensives into the South, vying for the South’s largest industrial, logistical, and administrative center outside of Richmond, the Battle of Atlanta.

On March 10th, 1975, Communist North Vietnamese forces began their Spring Offensive campaign to capture Southern territories. Without US support, the South’s army retreated in panic which ultimately led to the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War.

Ulysses S. Grant led a six-week and massive three-pronged Union Army offensive now known as the Overland Campaign, intended to crush Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army, while capturing the rebel capital at Richmond before sweeping farther south toward Atlanta.