History (Page 20)

Military history: Battles, campaigns, turning points, and the stories of those who served across every era.

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Afghanistan War

The history of the Battle of Wanat

By Jessica Evans

Today in military history: Armistice ends the Korean War

Today in military history: FBI founded

Pilot bodies returned home after going missing in Vietnam 54 years ago

By Miguel Ortiz

The Navy’s first Black master diver survived the USS Maine explosion

1,000 bombers took part in largest World War II bombing raid

These were Britain’s ‘manned torpedoes’ in World War II

The often forgotten Buffalo Soldiers must be remembered

That time a British soldier held back 6,000 enemy troops with beer bottles

By Blake Stilwell

Today in military history: Battle of Bull Run

From the front lines to the fridge, the history of military meals

America’s first spy: Frank Wisner

By Jessica Evans

A Confederate veteran-turned-lawman shot the deadliest gunfighter in the Old West

The last of the Free French Commandos who landed at Normandy on D-Day dies at 100

The French Foreign Legion and what happened at the Battle of Camerone

By Jessica Evans

The National War Dog Cemetery is in the Pacific

By Miguel Ortiz

Today in military history: First man on the moon

Today in military history: ‘Mein Kampf’ is published

WATCH: The 82nd Airborne Chorus rocked America’s Got Talent

By Miguel Ortiz

Archduke Ferdinand owned a bulletproof vest. Why didn’t he wear it?

The US wanted to use hundreds of nukes to create an alternative to the Suez Canal

The secret, failed Nazi plan to make German colonies in South America

The macabre tattoo collection destroyed in World War II

Was the Centurion tank too late for World War II?

This commander prepped for war by organizing a beard growing contest

By Blake Stilwell

A brave Titanic officer somehow survived to rescue troops from Dunkirk

By Blake Stilwell

This German U-boat was crewed by American sailors

By Miguel Ortiz

Today in military history: Atom bomb successfully tested

The Soviets tried to make a flying tank during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

This slave escaped to join the Union Navy then bought his former master’s house

By Blake Stilwell

5 Best CONUS and OCONUS Army posts

By Jessica Evans

All about the Kokoda Track Campaign in WWII

Today in military history: Largest tank battle in history ends

Book Review: Marine vet Rich Brown’s ‘On Violence and Varietals: Confessions of a Savage Somm’

By Nick Coffman

The tragic story of the Battle of Negro Fort

World War I, France and the first Battle of the Marne

The Alaskan guardians of the North in World War II

Today in military history: Medal of Honor is created

The rise, fall and resurgence of the battle rifle

By Miguel Ortiz

Everything you need to know about the Battle of Chapultepec

By Jessica Evans

The time an Air Force Academy ceremony ended in property damage and 15 injuries

By Miguel Ortiz

The Air Force scored the world’s only supersonic air-to-air gun kill in Vietnam

Today in military history: First female officer in the US Army

This is the cop who inspired ‘Dirty Harry’ and ‘Bullitt’

By Blake Stilwell

The time that black troops battled American MPs in Britain during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

9 of the weirdest military aircraft that actually flew

By Jessica Evans

Today in military history: Ernest Hemingway wounded on the Italian Front

This weapon killed more of its builders than its targets

By Miguel Ortiz

A Yale scholar helped rename Confederate landmarks

By Bethaney Phillips

This sailor stole intel from a German submarine and escaped a prison camp

When the Crimean War turned full FUBAR

By Jessica Evans

This battleship was one of the first and last ships hit in World War II

The forgotten study that doomed thousands of Allied soldiers

The official U.S. Space Force timepiece is available for a limited time

By Miguel Ortiz

Hitler’s greatest mistake might’ve been a U-boat purchase refusal

Why the US made Japan surrender on the deck of a massive battleship

Afghanistan War

How Operation Red Wings will forever be honored at the gym

By Jessica Evans

Today in military history: British Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps Established

Today in military history: Women inducted into US Naval Academy

Revolutionary War

Today in military history: America declares her independence

Today in military history: First American killed in Korean War

Today in military history: Pickett’s Charge in the Battle of Gettysburg

How the ‘Ghost Army’ tricked the enemy with theater tricks during WWII

By Bethaney Phillips

The time Japanese submarines attacked California and Oregon during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz