Presidents
He was the first president to appear on television.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
This was a decisive victory for the American Continental Army led by by General George Washington and the French Army troops of Comte de Rochambeau, during the American Revolutionary War.
Siege of Yorktown
December 7, 1941
Attack on Pearl Harbor.
The story goes that 19th century Marines wore collar protection from bayonets—hence this nickname.
Leathernecks
This is the smallest branch in the United States military.
Coast guard.
President John F. Kennedy served in this military branch.
The United States Navy
Often called a turning point, the battle resulted in the greatest number of casualties of the entire war in a single battle.
Battle of Gettysburg
This research and development project produced the first nuclear weapons during WWII.
Allied Manhattan Project
In 2013, the government officially said this "numeric" military facility in Nevada existed, but aliens...not yet. Not...yet.
Area 51
George Patton was a famous leader of this military branch.
Army
His first wife and mother died on the same day.
Theodore Roosevelt
February 13, 1884
This Virginia battle required the Union Army to cross the Rappahannock River on pontoon bridges.
The Battle of Fredericksburg
Calvin Graham was the youngest serviceman in the U.S. military. Graham lied about his age when he enlisted in the Navy. His real age wasn't discovered until after he was wounded in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. How old was he?
12
The first jet-to-jet aerial victory took place during this war when a USAF Lockheed F-80C shot down a MiG-15 over the Yalu River.
Korean War
The Air Force was established as a separate branch of the military in this year.
1947
These four Presidents were assassinated while in office.
Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy
Bloody Lane is found at this battlefield where in 3 hours of combat 5,500 soldiers were killed or wounded and neither side gained a decisive advantage.
Battle of Antietam
This "leader" had a nephew who served in the U.S. Navy during WWII.
Adolf Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler
It's the U.S. military's equivalent of a prison.
Stockade
This happened to the Continental Army after the American Revolution.
It was dismantled.
The Founding Fathers didn't believe in the idea of standing armies. After they won the Revolution, they essentially dismantled the Army.
William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy all share this in common.
All died while in office.
This battlefield in Virginia, has an area called the " field of lost shoes."
Manassas
This is the name of the B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Enola Gay
The oldest U.S. military decoration still in use; its reverse says, "For Military Merit."
The Purple Heart
This branch of the service uses the motto, "Always Ready".
Coast Guard