History (Page 49)

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

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How the election of 1876 was settled with a compromise

By Bethaney Phillips

This Revolutionary War battle was fought in lard with swords

By Blake Stilwell

Did the Soviets leave dead cosmonauts in orbit?

By Alex Hollings

The intense rules for the Marines who protected US mail from gangsters

By Blake Stilwell

Top 5 weird Vietnam era nicknames that would have gotten you in trouble

This is the most revered dagger in military history

Legends about the most decorated Marine in US history

By Zackry Colston

The Army reactivated the 11th Airborne Division to focus on Arctic warfare

By Miguel Ortiz

These are the clean cut differences between an atomic and hydrogen bomb

How one commander tried to get his men to leak D-Day plans

By Blake Stilwell

Check out the awesome planning documents for D-Day

5 things that surprised the German army on D-Day

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the 4 heroes who earned Medals of Honor for heroism on D-Day

One man dumped most of the combat footage of D-Day into the English Channel

By Blake Stilwell

‘The Red Ball Express’ kept the Allies supplied and armed after the D-Day breakout

The crazy way the Royal Navy killed Blackbeard the pirate

Why the F-105 wasn’t as effective in Vietnam as it should have been

This was Russia’s plan to defeat NATO in the first week of World War III

5 other WWII battles that kicked off the war in the Pacific

By James Elphick

British troops launched a ‘proper angry’ bayonet charge during the Iraq War

By Blake Stilwell

Top 5 corporations that profit from war

That time federal agents seized four F-14 Tomcat fighter jets

By Miguel Ortiz

This entire WWII operation was based on deception

By Bethaney Phillips

This is the story of the Civil War’s only double-barrel cannon

By Blake Stilwell

This is how Marine infantrymen prepare for a hike

How the US military pays tribute to our fallen heroes

Memorial Day: It’s not just for service members lost in combat

By Jessica Manfre

How two Delta Force snipers earned the Medal of Honor in Somalia

This is how the poppy became a symbol for fallen troops

By Eric Milzarski

5 things you didn’t know about Air Force One

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This is how Eddie Rickenbacker earned 7 service crosses and the Medal of Honor

By James Elphick

The Army made this 1950s film to try and make MPs cool

That time an Army Air Corps bomber crashed into the Empire State Building

By Blake Stilwell

This is the real story behind the 1969 ‘Soccer War’

By Harold C. Hutchison

Motorcycle soldiers used to rush parts to tanks under fire

This famous pilot flew 50 combat missions as a civilian

These are the 7 finest pieces of flair on US military uniforms

The stunning combat history of the Tuskegee Airmen

This bridge is one of the most underrated engineering feats of WWII

By Tim Kirkpatrick

5 of the dumbest reasons people went to war

By Shannon Corbeil

The Army Air Corps once bombed Oklahoma

By Blake Stilwell

Here’s what happened 6 other times US embassies were attacked

By Blake Stilwell

8 of the Air Force’s greatest fighters throughout history

This is what would happen if German and British tanks did battle today

By Harold C. Hutchison

Project 33 Memorial Foundation honors fallen Green Beret

By Jessica Manfre

How this paratrooper got his trench knife back after 70 years

By Blake Stilwell

This is how Japan went from enemy to ally of the US

The insane life of this Holocaust survivor and Special Forces veteran

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Top 5 hobbies the founding fathers enjoyed that you didn’t know about

The artillery mission that made Truman a criminal and hero

Vietnamese farmers have been using US fuel tanks as boats for 50 years

The British and Germans built these deadly hollowed-out trees in WWI

By Christian Lowe

M202 FLASH: The Army’s man-portable, four-barrel rocket launcher

By Harold C. Hutchison

This moving company moved a captured U-boat across Lake Shore Drive

By Miguel Ortiz

This presidential nominee’s campaign was tanked by a tank

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Special Forces soldier gave his life to save his allies

Communist countries fought a proxy war against each other in Africa

This diet fueled both sides during the American Civil War

This is how Montezuma once accidentally paid a guard to fart in his face

6 important things you need to learn before World War III

Revolutionary War

The ‘Virginia Hercules’ was the one-man army of the American Revolution

How these armies beat their foe with a prostitute, palm trees and plague bodies

This is how two WWII veterans changed baseball forever

By Eric Milzarski

Afghanistan War

This sailor earned a Bronze Star for leading a clandestine team that rescued 961 people in Afghanistan

By Miguel Ortiz