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This is how you move a World War I railway howitzer to a museum

In World War I, there was a need to hit targets either pretty far off, or which were very hard to destroy. At the time, aircraft weren’t much of an option – in fact, they really had a hard time carrying big bombs. Often, an aircrewman …

ByHarold C. Hutchison

28 rarely seen photos from the Vietnam War

How interrogation techniques are used on recruits and no one knew it

ByTim Kirkpatrick

This lone Gurkha rifleman stopped three Japanese tanks in their tracks

ByBlake Stilwell

6 legends of the Army Reserve

This is what it’s like to be a secret service sniper

ByTim Kirkpatrick

Japan’s greatest aircraft carrier was sank by a tiny sub

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This is how you move a World War I railway howitzer to a museum

ByHarold C. Hutchison

How Germany deployed the first weapon of mass destruction

This knife-wielding martial art is used by the US Army and Russian Spetsnaz

ByBlake Stilwell

This is how the ‘Molotov Cocktail’ got its name

28 rarely seen photos from the Vietnam War

How interrogation techniques are used on recruits and no one knew it

ByTim Kirkpatrick

This lone Gurkha rifleman stopped three Japanese tanks in their tracks

ByBlake Stilwell

6 legends of the Army Reserve

This is what it’s like to be a secret service sniper

ByTim Kirkpatrick

Japan’s greatest aircraft carrier was sank by a tiny sub

This video shows rare footage from an actual Vietcong ambush

The reason Japanese battleships dwarfed American ships during WWII

The reason the British military formed the Special Air Service

This legendary pilot fought to his last bullet after being shot down

Inside the submarine threat to US carriers off the Korean coast

ByHarold C. Hutchison

Here’s how the US could respond to a California rebellion

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This man in Georgia restores WWII airplane turrets in his garage

How green troops became professional warriors during Vietnam

This aging Russian plane was the Tomahawk strike’s target

ByHarold C. Hutchison

That time a Coast Guard icebreaker made a massive drug bust off the coast of Jamaica

This massive air offensive had an adorable name

This is what Mongol MREs looked like

Maryland’s ‘Immortal 400’ saved the entire American Revolution

ByBlake Stilwell

Navy grounds T-45 Goshawk fleet after pilot protests

ByChristian Lowe

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