History (Page 48)

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

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Pfc. Bradford Freeman, the last ‘Band of Brothers’ soldier, dies at 97

By Miguel Ortiz

This original Top Gun stunt pilot became an astronaut

By Miguel Ortiz

This is why the rank of General of the Armies was only given twice in US history

This daring commando raid’s only injury was from a negligent discharge

Why you don’t hear about the German Navy on D-Day

This pilot crashed his plane into the guns that shot him down

This is the biggest victory Native Americans scored against the colonials

By Blake Stilwell

America’s secret supersonic spy drones flew over China in the 1960s

By Alex Hollings

Here’s the most influential US general you’ve never heard of

By Stephen Carlson

5 reasons bourbon is the most American drink of all time

By Blake Stilwell

A Medal of Honor recipient tore his way through Vietnam while being stalked by a tiger

Last WWII Medal of Honor recipient, Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams, passes away at 98

By Miguel Ortiz

The real man behind the fake body used in ‘Operation Mincemeat’

How one Soviet agent single-handedly changed the course of World War II

This Medal of Honor citation reads like an action movie plot

This was the Air Force’s super fighter that never flew

Why some of the Los Zetas Cartel founders were trained by the US Army

7 unusual USMC slang words every Marine knows

By Uncle Walkie

The LT Michael P. Murphy Navy SEAL Museum is now open in New York

By Miguel Ortiz

These warriors were the ‘Leper Knights’ of the Crusader Kingdoms

The 5 vehicles most crucial to winning World War II

Afghanistan War

The KGB’s Alpha Group left terrorists in fear of the Soviet Union

The ‘last casualty of the Civil War’ died of his wounds in 1914

Why the enemy should have brought a battalion to kill this soldier

By Blake Stilwell

How Green Berets earned the nickname ‘snake eaters’ and how it helped them in Vietnam

The F-22 Raptor almost had a stealth bomber sibling

By Miguel Ortiz

The Army Chief learned about Pearl Harbor in 14 words

Revolutionary War

Top 3 tactical withdrawals in military history

These are the religious duties of a Navy Chaplain

The namesake of Tinker Air Force Base was a total badass

How the KGB trained its ‘illegal’ sleeper agents

The US plan to survive a Soviet nuke was absolutely bonkers

Revolutionary War

George Washington was nearly impossible to kill

By Blake Stilwell

The unknown story of Air Force Medal of Honor recipient Richard L. Etchberger

The Black Chamber: How the ladies of early American codebreaking helped win the Battle of Midway

The massive SAS legend who made it through selection. Twice.

These fighter pilots literally pushed their wingmen to safety

By Miguel Ortiz

This Green Beret spent his life fighting communists in three different armies

By Miguel Ortiz

This is how the Alamo Scouts became the first Special Forces

By Blake Stilwell

The Nazis had a nuclear reactor in World War II

Aussie special forces used sawed-off machine guns in Vietnam

By Blake Stilwell

The US plan to train nuclear suicide bomber paratroopers

By Blake Stilwell

The wreck of the destroyer escort that fought like a battleship during WWII has been found

By Miguel Ortiz

Lend-lease: What was old is new again, with an ironic twist

This was the Air Force’s plan to turn a Boeing 747 into an airborne aircraft carrier

A black Marine fought for Greek independence after fighting the Barbary War

Why Russia’s Typhoon-Class submarines are so massive

Why World War I pilot Eddie Rickenbacker is such a legendary hero

The reason the M1 Garand used to jam every 7th round

By Miguel Ortiz

Before the attack helicopter, this WWII plane was named the Apache

By Miguel Ortiz

This insane pilot conducted first combat search and rescue

These are the only father-son pairs to receive Medals of Honor

This American bomber-killing missile had a nuclear punch

By Harold C. Hutchison

How German troops at Stalingrad behaved when they were on leave from the battle

The last prisoner of World War II was found in Russia in 2000

This is how the Romans successfully removed arrows from wounded troops

The ‘Big Red One’ led the fight from WWI to Iraq

This is how much troops were paid in every major American war

This is why the military went from blotched to digital uniform patterns

This forgotten soldier survived 4 months in Dunkirk by himself

By Tim Kirkpatrick

That time the Air Force landed bombers on tank treads

This is why people yell ‘Geronimo’ when jumping from heights

By Blake Stilwell

This WWII battle had ships firing point blank with 16-inch guns

By Harold C. Hutchison

9 interesting reasons behind US military uniforms

By Ward Carroll