History (Page 50)

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

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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

The US Army’s plan to win the Plains Wars was to kill every American Bison

Europe’s best plan to defeat Napoleon depended on not fighting him

This Naval Academy grad and pilot is running for congress

By Jessica Manfre

This American tractor became the world’s first-ever tank

This Navy SEAL unit was ‘the most hard luck platoon’ to fight in Vietnam

By Blake Stilwell

That time this Navy squadron bombed North Vietnam with a toilet

By Blake Stilwell

Did you know this man is the only American to be hanged for treason?

American airmen were rescued by cannibal headhunters during World War II

The Navy’s only squadron dedicated to special operations support

By Miguel Ortiz

Afghanistan War

These Army Rangers killed 25 enemies and saved their men in a 6-hour firefight

Decorated war hero Justin Constantine dies; a nation mourns

By Jessica Manfre

These heroes used planes as missiles years before the Kamikazes

This failed assassin was North Korean special forces’ ‘Lone Survivor’

By Blake Stilwell

This military unit has been guarding the Pope without a break for over 500 years

By Stephen Carlson

These 6 wounded troops became war heroes after losing limbs

How Captain Morgan became a knight of England

How Jimmy Doolittle nearly revealed the biggest American secret of WWII

By Harold C. Hutchison

The Air Force’s first new jet trainer in 60 years pays tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen

By Miguel Ortiz

How a plain old Cessna became a military legend

By Harold C. Hutchison

7 improvised weapons that will ruin your day

These 6 heroes show that bravery happens everywhere in the military

How Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-serving female head of state

By Megan Harless

7 things you probably didn’t know about the U.S. Coast Guard

By Mary-Elizabeth Pratt

How Finland almost stopped a massive Soviet invasion in 1940

9 American heroes who received France’s Legion of Honor

By Blake Stilwell

This Navy ‘ace of aces’ shut down a 60-plane attack

This is what the Army’s ‘Iron Men of Metz’ and Attila the Hun have in common

By James Elphick

The crazy way subs used to communicate

After 77 years, the Army returned a birthday cake they stole during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

Today in military history: Germans ambush allies during secret Normandy landings practice

Why Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was the biggest threat to national security

Kevin Costner is on the board of this WWI museum

By Bethaney Phillips

WATCH: Freemasons and the War of 1812

By Jessica Evans