History (Page 57)

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

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This dog disarmed a a World War II bomb by marking it

By Miguel Ortiz

Watch what happens when an anti-tank rifle destroys armor plates

8 facts you didn’t know about the US Coast Guard

By Jessica Evans

The F4U Corsair was meant for the Navy but became a Marine Corps legend

By Miguel Ortiz

Do you know what it takes to be in the Marine Corps Band?

This trailblazing Asian American Olympian was also an Army doctor

By Miguel Ortiz

This Desert Storm gun is a favorite for special ops units

By Chase Millsap

This is how the Army convinced pilots to fly one of its most crash-prone planes

By Harold C. Hutchison

Revolutionary War

The hilarious way a CIA agent was able to leave Iran with a fake passport

A fake CIA front company bought the screen rights to the Iran-Contra Scandal

7 powerful ways American culture has changed the world

What happened to the soldiers who suffered history’s most infamous wartime loss

Afghanistan War

Mighty Talks: MOH Recipients MSG Matt Williams and SSG Ronald Shurer

By Dustin Damon

How to fly the Little Bird’s ancestor

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is why Fallujah is one of the Marine Corps’ most legendary battles

By Donald Baker

The famous Civil War surrender painting isn’t at the Smithsonian

By Miguel Ortiz

The 4 best surrender decisions in military history

By Blake Stilwell

The history of duct tape and its military ties

By Bethaney Phillips

This is what ICBM crews will do after a missile launch

By Blake Stilwell

US aircraft carriers are almost unsinkable giants of the ocean

By Blake Stilwell

This is how Robert E. Lee’s house became Arlington National Cemetery

By Blake Stilwell

Afghanistan War

4 reasons why you shouldn’t give candy to kids while on patrol

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This was the invasion of France you didn’t hear about

By Harold C. Hutchison

Here’s why Chris Kyle wore a ball cap instead of a helmet

By Shannon Corbeil

This little-known disaster was the first to be called the ‘Second Pearl Harbor’

How this World War I soldier earned the Medal of Honor in a mustard gas attack

By Blake Stilwell

The first Medal of Honor in modern Army aviation history came in Vietnam

Afghanistan War

President Bush calls Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal ‘unbelievably bad’

French Marines ended a hostage crisis with a bayonet charge

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the intelligence officer who urged Nimitz to kill Yamamoto

By Harold C. Hutchison

How the CIA stole a secret Soviet satellite during the Space Race

This is how the bow evolved throughout the history of warfare

The incredible stand of the Irish Army in the Congo

By Blake Stilwell

There was a special word for Confederates who joined the US Army

By Blake Stilwell

This was the fastest manned aircraft ever

By Blake Stilwell

This insane law would force everyone who wanted a war to go fight it

By Blake Stilwell

Here’s what it takes to guard the ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Afghanistan War

That time British Intelligence hacked al-Qaeda just to mess with them

By Blake Stilwell

Texas Tower 4 was a Cold War radar outpost that vanished in a winter storm

Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. President to hold a patent

By Miguel Ortiz

Before he wrote children’s books, Roald Dahl was a menace to Axis forces in the sky

By Miguel Ortiz

The 5 strangest military mission names from the Iraq War

By Jessica Evans

See how the Coast Guard trains elite rescue swimmers

Coke exists thanks to this wounded warrior from Civil War

5 insane military projects that almost happened

This top secret Green Beret unit quietly won the Cold War

This is what jail is like on an aircraft carrier

By Harold C. Hutchison

This bomber made the B-52 look puny

By Harold C. Hutchison

This was one of the stealthiest aircraft ever flown by the US military

This amazing weapon is made of narwhal tusk and meteors

By Blake Stilwell

Can you pass the US citizenship test?

By Zackry Colston

Operation Sea Lion: the Nazi plan to invade Great Britain

How Teddy Roosevelt’s gun was as awesome as he was

By Blake Stilwell

Why Germany was always the underdog in World War II

This app lets you see the destructive power of nukes on your hometown

By Blake Stilwell

Why the Soviet Union wanted to nuke this hot dog stand

By Blake Stilwell

China just sent its homegrown aircraft carrier to the South China Sea

Watch award-winning actor Bryan Cranston narrate the D-Day landings

By Blake Stilwell

This is why US troops still wear laces on their boots

By Blake Stilwell

Ancient nomads protect Genghis Khan’s tomb to this day

By Blake Stilwell

This dad asked about his son, and the Bismarck was doomed

The first U.S. planes fly combat missions from a foreign ship since WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

Afghanistan War

A Vietnam veteran re-enlisted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Blake Stilwell

The Navy used to have nuclear-powered cruisers