History (Page 58)

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

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This is why Teddy Roosevelt turned Yosemite into federal land

The Baghdad Underground Railroad built an escape for Iraqi interpreters. It was just the beginning.

By Tessa Robinson

That time Patton denied the guy who saved his life in WWI

By Blake Stilwell

This may be the Air Force’s replacement for the F-16 Fighting Falcon

This is what basic Marine infantry training is like

The crazy story of the only underwater sub battle in history

How the Allies used math to save bomber crews during WWII

By Alex Hollings

After war crimes acquittal, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher and wife share their story in revealing new book

By Jessica Manfre

6 things you didn’t know about Operation Market Garden

By Blake Stilwell

This is how missing or captured troops get promoted

By Eric Milzarski

This proposed nuke would’ve destroyed a continent

The British re-cut Nazi propaganda to make these soldiers dance

Watch how sand from Omaha Beach brightens veterans’ tombstones

By Shannon Corbeil

Afghanistan War

This is what happened when the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan

A ‘Lone Sailor’ statue is now in place at Normandy

By Blake Stilwell

This is the fascinating process of how samurai swords are made

How to counter a punch like a Marine

By Alex Hollings

This convoy system staffed mostly by African Americans kept the invasion of Europe rolling

By Miguel Ortiz

This is what happens when you try to invade and conquer Russia

By Blake Stilwell

America’s oldest living general turned 107 in 2021

17 brilliant insights from legendary Marine General James Mattis

The first Muslim Green Beret was also in Iran’s Special Forces

By Blake Stilwell

How R. Lee Ermey’s Hollywood break is an inspiration to us all

By Eric Milzarski

The youngest Special Forces captain in Vietnam was a war hero

4 times the US military won by tricking the enemy

By Paul Szoldra

This Soviet pilot stole the plane of a Nazi pilot who landed to try and kill him

By Blake Stilwell

This is how US ships defeat missiles without firing a shot

By Harold C. Hutchison

Canadians honor their fallen troops by lining the ‘Highway of Heroes’

By Blake Stilwell

This hard-drinking salty Coast Guard sea dog was banned from Greenland

By Blake Stilwell

7 of the best ‘so-crazy-it-will-work’ plans that actually worked

Meet the only woman to fly a solo space mission

By Shannon Corbeil

This video shows how ‘Full Metal Jacket’ was made

By Orvelin Valle

7 weirdest military vehicles you haven’t heard of

By Miguel Ortiz

This wounded airman saved his team (with an A-10’s help)

By Blake Stilwell

The elite medieval knights who were bankers and brawlers

FOX host asks Americans on D-Day: Are you living a life worthy of our fallen?

By Jessica Manfre

The daring sabotage raid that kept Nazis from getting The Bomb

By Blake Stilwell

The underground work of Belle Boyd and how she changed the Civil War

By Bethaney Phillips

This ‘pirate’ was the unsung hero of British carrier operations during the Cold War

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Corpsman saved his Marines despite being shot 4 times

By Tim Kirkpatrick

6 times US troops killed their way out of enemy ambushes

These presidents were all (distantly) related to each other

By Bethaney Phillips

Watch this WWII commando veteran explain how to spot a sniper

By Blake Stilwell

Top 5 combat diseases that would kill you in the Crusades

How D-Day would go down today

By Harold C. Hutchison

This was General Sherman’s real method of clearing minefields

By Blake Stilwell

6 things you didn’t know about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

By Tim Kirkpatrick

These are the only 2 subs that sank enemy ships in combat since 1945

By Harold C. Hutchison

Afghanistan War

The Biden Administration is set to release three Guantanamo Bay detainees

How battleship salvos worked in sea combat

A guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier got stabbed and carried on

By Blake Stilwell

This is why some sailors wear gold stripes, and some wear red

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The 1st Marine War Dog Platoon were the ‘goodest bois’ of WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

Army veteran and Fox News Media’s Pete Hegseth reflects on Memorial Day

By Jessica Manfre

Coffee alternatives that were used during the Civil War

By Bethaney Phillips

WATCH: USS Arizona – part museum, part memorial

By Jessica Evans

How an illegal immigrant was drafted and earned the Medal of Honor

By Blake Stilwell

The US plan to completely destroy Germany after World War II

By Blake Stilwell

These badass Marines held off an entire Viet Cong battalion

By James Elphick

29 of the best politically incorrect Vietnam War slang terms

By Blake Stilwell

New declassified Russian documents change the history of the Cuban Missile Crisis

5 of the most annoying misconceptions about Marine boot camp

Their first battle: Truman rallies his men under artillery fire

7 crazy things the Coast Guard did during World War II