Operation ALLIED FORCE Archives

May 4 in U.S. military history

1864: Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all Union forces, moves the Army of the Potomac out of their

1863: During day two of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is shot by a Confederate sentry

1942: Rear Admiral John W. Wilcox, Jr.’s Task Force 39, consisting of the battleship USS Washington, aircraft carrier USS Wasp,

1945: Paratroopers of Maj. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s XVIII Airborne Corps — composed of the U.S. 17th Airborne “Thunder from