History (Page 30)

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

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The interesting origin of the famous jerrican

By Miguel Ortiz

This aircraft factory was disguised as a suburban neighborhood during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

How a pack of emus won against modern soldiers

By Bethaney Phillips

That time the Air Force bombarded Oklahoma City with sonic booms

By Miguel Ortiz

Here’s why the military dosed soldiers with PCP and LSD

By Bethaney Phillips

The only all-Black, all-female battalion that served overseas during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

That time Jimmy Carter saved Canada from nuclear destruction

By Blake Stilwell

MoH Monday: Army Specialist Leonard Alvarado

By Jessica Evans

An Irish Republican charged an entire battalion of British Soldiers during the Easter Uprising

The Army’s notorious ‘Soldier of Misfortune’ tried to defect to Cuba and North Vietnam

Everything you need to know about National K9 Veterans Day

By Jessica Evans

Today in military history: Operation Rolling Thunder

Today in military history: US Army establishes ‘K-9 Corps’

Five new US Space Force Guardian jobs

By Jessica Evans

The US defector to North Korea no one ever hears about

Afghanistan War

MoH Monday: Chief Britt Slabinski

By Jessica Evans

The icy history of Project Iceworm

By Jessica Evans

7 horrifying atrocities of the Korean War

By Blake Stilwell

8 amazing facts about Harriet Tubman

By Blake Stilwell

Japan’s greatest naval leader was almost discharged before World War II began

This was America’s first operational supersonic strategic bomber

By Harold C. Hutchison

Why Jet Li turned down being Nixon’s personal bodyguard

By Blake Stilwell

A Marine never received his Medal of Honor because he deserted before it was presented

The teen girl squad who seduced and killed Nazis in occupied Europe

Why the Air Force upgrades its B-52 fleet instead of building new ones

The terror Iraqi units faced when the Air Force hunted them in sandstorms

That time the U.S. government sold nearly a quarter million illegal rifles to citizens

By Miguel Ortiz

How to purchase a flag flown over the U.S. Capitol

By Jessica Evans

The wreck of WWII submarine USS Albacore was identified off the coast of Japan

By Miguel Ortiz

Ever wonder what the first day at West Point is like for a new cadet? Watch this

By Jessica Evans

The KGB double agent who prevented a nuclear World War III

Navy intelligence once launched an investigation to find Bill the Goat

One of Stalin’s gulags was an island filled with cannibals

WATCH: That time North Dakota almost experienced its own Chernobyl

By Jessica Evans

That time scientists analyzed beer from an 1800s shipwreck

By Shannon Corbeil

How vets answer the ridiculous ‘have you ever killed someone’ question

4 awesome missions you didn’t know were done by the Coast Guard

Why these Navy cats spent more time at sea than you

By Eric Milzarski

These photos show what our veteran presidents looked like in uniform

By Blake Stilwell

Our 12 favorite 1980s war movies

By Bethaney Phillips

How 10 British soldiers escaped a POW camp using spoons

By Bethaney Phillips

How the Marines ripped through the Iraqis in Operation Desert Storm

By James Elphick

9 infamous KGB assassination attempts straight out of spy novels

By Blake Stilwell

How the sling was an effective weapon in human history

The reason the Royal Navy attacked and sunk an allied fleet during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

One of the most famous Navy SEALs was ‘snapped in two’ during a training op

WATCH: What was the Missouri Mormon War?

By Jessica Evans

How a Prussian man was accidentally drafted by Nazis and became their lead interrogator

By Bethaney Phillips

A guide to surviving Air Force Basic Military Training

By Jessica Evans

Why Iwo Jima was such an important battle

By Jessica Evans

Michigan’s important manufacturing role in WWI

By Jessica Evans

A British Commando escaped certain death by pretending to be related to a famous general

The children of literary icons and Hollywood stars who spent time in Vietnam

How leftover WWII jeeps kicked off a public transportation craze

By Miguel Ortiz

These four photos are the only ones ever taken inside a Nazi death camp

By Blake Stilwell

The most expensive plane crash in history cost the Air Force $1.4 billion

The first recorded therapy dog was a WWII combat vet and a Yorkie

By Miguel Ortiz

How a Greek foot soldier inadvertently invented the marathon

By Bethaney Phillips

This veteran invented G.I. Joe based on his own war experiences

By Bethaney Phillips

3 reasons Charles Lindbergh’s first transatlantic flight was groundbreaking

Tsar Nicholas II refused to approve the Russian Army uniform until he tested it himself

By Miguel Ortiz

The history of the iconic American cowboy hat

Colonel Paris Davis received the Medal of Honor nearly 60 years after he earned it in Vietnam

By Miguel Ortiz

The true story of the M1 carbine’s creation (it wasn’t ‘Carbine’ Williams)

By Miguel Ortiz