Against the Odds

The Battle of Hue at the beginning of the Tet Offensive in 1968 during the Vietnam War is examined.

A look at how Allied combat engineers tried to thwart German advances during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 by destroying roads and bridges.

The November 1943 Marine assault on the Japanese Pacific island stronghold of Tarawa is examined.

Marines fight on Okinawa to take Sugar Loaf Hill from the Japanese in May 1945.

The exploits of a Marine rifle company at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in subfreezing temperatures in late 1950 during the Korean War are recalled.

When Colonel MacFarland arrived in Iraq's deadliest city, the odds could not have been worse. Al-Qaeda had arrogantly declared Ramadi, capital of a new caliphate. The boys of MacFarland’s Ready First Combat Team would fight to give America a clear victory.