The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

She became a full-time nurse for the wounded on their way from the fields of battle to the hospital.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

An actor plays Spanish-American Admiral David Farrugut, a hero in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

Last week,we told how John Carter observed a fierce battle between the green Martians and a race of red, human-like creatures.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Soviet forces under Marshal Georgy Zhukov won a fierce battle for the city of Stalingrad -- now Volgograd.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

In eighteen sixty-four, the battle at Cold Harbor in Virginia ended a month of fighting by the Union Army of the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

They have also sent thousands of troops to Arhab and other areas to battle the local al-Qaida group.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

Westerners believed the battle - at a place called Tippecanoe - was a great victory for Harrison.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

He sent Northern forces to battle the slave-holding Southern states to keep them from leaving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

He got the name "Stonewall" at the Battle of Bull Run in the summer of eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

The Battle of Solferino took place one hundred fifty years ago, in June of eighteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

He asked that Johnston's ten thousand-man force in the Shenandoah Valley join him for battle.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

The battle between the North and the South spread in the summer of eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Grant went east in March eighteen sixty-four, five months after the battle at Chattanooga.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

In July of eighteen sixty-one, Union soldiers from the North and Confederate soldiers from the South fought the first major battle in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

But he lost that battle. Virginia approved the Constitution in seventeen eighty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

We are met on a great battle-field of that war.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

The team at the Fitzgerald Auto Mall in Rockville,Maryland is on the front-lines of the battle to save America's car industry.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Fifteen dead in a gun battle in Taxco. Fifty-five more at an abandoned silver mine near that same tourist town.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

The costly D-Day battle would mark a turning point in the war, and would change the lives of survivors like Earl Norwood.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

News reports say,in 2007, Hasan warned Army officials of "adverse events" if Muslim-American soldiers continue to be sent into battle against fellow Muslims.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

They were not expected to agree to plow more money into their own economies to battle the financial crisis - and they did not.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

For this character - Russian physicist Ivan Vanko - the battle is about honor and respect.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Nine thousand additional non-U.S.troops have joined the battle in Afghanistan in the past 18 months.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28