History (Page 23)

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

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Today in military history: First Memorial Day observance is held

This Soviet-made aircraft was the biggest challenge for Nazi fighter pilots

The unreported reason why LBJ didn’t run for a second term during the Vietnam War

A Roosevelt was the only soldier disabled for the same wound in two wars

This is why everything about history’s most infamous assassination was dumb

By Eric Milzarski

The human cost of the most daring special operations raids in history

By Blake Stilwell

Today in military history: George Washington spills first blood of French and Indian War

5 things you didn’t know about deadly flamethrowers

By Tim Kirkpatrick

How World War II changed modern medicine

By Bethaney Phillips

The lore of the “lost Confederate treasure”

By Bethaney Phillips

The highest-ranking Filipino American was in the Army, not the Navy

By Miguel Ortiz

This small island in the Pacific changed the course of WWII

By Bethaney Phillips

A Russian submarine had a ‘Crimson Tide’ moment near Cuba

This is how the real McCoy smuggled rum during prohibition

The Maxim Gun’s devastating firepower changed warfare forever

Today in military history: Royal Navy takes down the Bismarck to avenge their flagship

What do you know about the second Korean War?

How Marines spot each other in the wild

By Uncle Walkie

Here’s how to have a ‘Mindful Memorial Day’…and why you should

This nuclear explosion was nearly 3 times the size anyone predicted

The phenomenon of North Vietnamese laughing soldiers

By Bethaney Phillips

Today in military history: Operation Dynamo begins the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk

Revolutionary War

The Maryland 400: Revolutionary War meets Spartan ‘300’

Operation Solomon: A heroic airlift that changed lives

By Jessica Evans

A Gurkha veteran is the first double above-knee amputee to summit Everest

By Miguel Ortiz

How the incredible Paddy Mayne captured a German city to save his outnumbered men

Today in military history: First atomic cannon is fired

The US Navy didn’t have an admiral until after the Civil War

Afghanistan War

7 amazing and surreal details of the Osama bin Laden raid

The absolutely unhinged British ‘White Rabbit’ terror tank of WWI

How camouflage has evolved over time – and why it had to

By Jessica Evans

These are the rules NATO allies have about growing beards

By Eric Milzarski

How you can run up the famed Currahee Mountain from ‘Band of Brothers’

By Miguel Ortiz

Operation Urgent Fury: The American invasion of Grenada

By Jessica Evans

The original Colt scope was used from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom

By Miguel Ortiz

The Navy had hybrid fighter jets during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

Medieval England required all free men to own weapons in proportion to their wealth

Afghanistan War

MoH Monday: LTC William Swenson

By Jessica Evans

The 5 greatest outnumbered victories in the history of warfare

A British mad scientist developed a way to trigger earthquakes in World War II

This is the story behind the Red Army’s most iconic WWII photo

By Blake Stilwell

Today in military history: The M16 comes under fire in Vietnam

Nazi Germany’s greatest test pilot was a Jewish woman

How the US screwed NATO over with the M14 rifle and 7.62 cartridge

By Miguel Ortiz

These pilots became aces in a single day during WWI

By Bethaney Phillips

These famous buildings are the luckiest to survive combat throughout history

Spanish-American War

The Navy’s short-lived compressed air cannons wrecked the Spanish in Cuba

Today in military history: Marine Corps aviation is born

Walking on the grass and 4 other things that almost made the US lose the Cold War

By Uncle Walkie

These 8 Black-American heroes received Medals of Honor decades later

You sing it, but do you really know what ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is about?

The USS England was a Japanese sub’s worst nightmare during World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

Today in military history: Union Army cuts off Port Hudson

A 24-year-old Belgian woman created the largest escape line for downed airmen in WWII

Britain’s V bombers and Blue Steel missiles were beasts

Afghanistan War

Operation Whalers was the Marine Corps’ payback after Operation Red Wings

By Miguel Ortiz

These 6 women earned the Silver Star for valor in war

By Harold C. Hutchison

The last charge of the bicycle brigade

These soldiers are the Army’s FBI and Secret Service

That time pancakes helped fight the Japanese in WWII

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The last member of the United Spanish War Veterans retired during WWII

This is how much mass is destroyed in a nuclear explosion

6 of the best baseball players who served

How Stan Lee went from Army repairman to comic book legend will inspire you

By Eric Milzarski