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KEEPING THE TRADITION ALIVE
Active duty service members honoring the WWII nose art tradition

"Lucky Lady"

"Connie"

"Sea Siren"

"Dollar Nineteen"

"Fertile Myrtle"

"Peacemaker"

"Queen"

"Memphis Belle"

"Pacific Thunder"

"Polecat"

"Six Shooter"

"Blonde Bomber"

"Whistling Death"
Step inside history. These aren't pages, they're time capsules. Each one built from primary sources, after action reports, and the words of those who were there.

The only place rank doesn't matter and nobody knocks. Walls covered in names, countdowns, crude art, death jokes, and things nobody would ever say out loud anywhere else. This is where boredom, nicotine, and war turns into art.

Interactive narrative of the Challenger disaster recovery. Scroll through the explosion, the search, and the Coast Guard crew that commanded the largest surface recovery in USCG history.

Interactive combat narrative of the 77-day siege. Scroll through the bombardment, the hill fights, and the air campaign that held the line at Khe Sanh Combat Base.

Five nights. Never gave up the hill. The entire 1st Marine Division walked out because of them.

Interactive battle map of one of the boldest Armored Strikes in history. Follow TF 1-64 as Baghdad falls.

On December 1, 1969, 366 blue capsules were drawn from a glass jar to decide who went to war. Enter your birthday.

Interactive tactical map of the bloodiest urban battle since Hue City. Follow six battalions block by block.

Scroll through the story of the most heavily targeted bomb group in the Eighth Air Force. 177 aircraft lost.
Six conflicts. Eighty years. Every collection tells the story of the men and women who served.
From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day. The United States mobilized 16 million men and women across three continents, two oceans, and dozens of island chains in the largest military conflict in human history.
Three years of brutal combat on a peninsula most Americans couldn't find on a map. 5.7 million served. The armistice was signed in 1953. Technically, the war never ended.
Twenty years of involvement. 2.7 million Americans served in country. The average age of the combat soldier was 19. The war divided a nation and defined a generation.
100 hours of ground combat. The coalition assembled 670,000 troops from 35 nations to liberate Kuwait. The most decisive conventional military victory since World War II.
From Shock and Awe to the last convoy south. Eight years, multiple surges, and the deadliest urban combat since Vietnam. Fallujah, Ramadi, Sadr City - names etched into a generation of service members.
America's longest war. Twenty years in the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan. From the first Special Forces teams on horseback in October 2001 to the last C-17 out of Kabul in August 2021.

Tactically Acquired is proud to offer apparel for over 8,000 military units!