History (Page 61)

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

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The unknown deceased who have received the Medal of Honor

The heroic — and nearly forgotten — legend of ‘Pappy’ Gunn

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is why bigger is better when it comes to aircraft carriers

By Harold C. Hutchison

Revolutionary War

This daring ruse turned the tide of the American Revolution

By James Elphick

This Coast Guard Cutter led the rescue efforts on 9/11 but is facing abandonment

By Miguel Ortiz

Did you know Martha Washington was one of the few female plantation owners?

By Bethaney Phillips

WATCH: Today in military history, Germans test Luftwaffe on Guernica

Medic remembers what it was like to land on Omaha Beach

Revolutionary War

The first machine gun was invented before the Revolutionary War

By Blake Stilwell

The day Russia’s White House got shelled by the Russian Army

By Blake Stilwell

What we can learn from a replica World War II midget submarine

By Harold C. Hutchison

Everything about this monument is far more symbolic than most notice

By Eric Milzarski

How this flashlight became the most enduring piece of military tech

By Eric Milzarski

7 amazing pilots who became an ‘ace-in-a-day’

Today in military history: Union issues conduct code defining laws of combat for Civil War

How the US Navy captured its first enemy ship in 129 years

By James Elphick

How Mongol hordes drank horse blood and liquor to kill you

Nuclear torpedoes are a ridiculously awesome thing

John McCain learned two big things when he was a prisoner of war

Why wounded viking warriors ate strong onion soup

By Blake Stilwell

Afghanistan War

This Green Beret whistleblower risked his career to change US hostage policy

By Blake Stilwell

This is how the military challenge coin came to be

By Eric Milzarski

The Battle of the Crater turned a brilliant plan into self-inflicted defeat

By Stephen Carlson

Here’s how these 3 legends each earned two Medals of Honor

By James Elphick

A rare glimpse of life as a Delta Force operator

By Orvelin Valle

This Luftwaffe hero was shot down 32 times during World War II

6 of the largest humanitarian missions in US military history

4 worst Russian propaganda fails

These cruisers were really a pair of mini-battleships

By Harold C. Hutchison

8 US Navy sailors who received the Medal of Honor

This is the silky smooth voice every airline pilot tries to imitate

By Eric Milzarski

4 mind-boggling facts about the Cold War

By Shannon Corbeil

How Richard Nixon predicted a Trump Presidency

By Blake Stilwell

Here’s how the ‘Bloody Angle’ turned into the worst fighting of the Civil War

By Stephen Carlson

The “Father of the Air Force” challenged the limits of freedom of speech and lost

6 ways East Germans escaped the grip of Communism

By Eric Milzarski

These 4 wars started after ‘false flag’ attacks

By Blake Stilwell

The US Army once tried to weaponize a Nerf football

This is the story behind the pre-inauguration wreath laying ceremony

By Harold C. Hutchison

Today in military history: The Red Baron is killed in action

7 tools that helped America win WWII

By James Elphick

This is how the Apollo 11 travel pay proves DTS always sucked

By Eric Milzarski

A famous Russian composer re-arranged the Star-Spangled Banner

By Blake Stilwell

Why Douglas MacArthur was a badass during World War I

By James Elphick

How a prostitute turned pirate queen defeated 3 navies at once

This was the Army and Air Force ‘treaty’ on aircraft

By Harold C. Hutchison

13 thoughts I had during Coast Guard boot camp graduation

By Mary-Elizabeth Pratt

How Ohio and Michigan sparked an angry border war over Toledo

By Blake Stilwell

Best Sniper competition held at Fort Benning

By Bethaney Phillips

‘Exercise Tiger’: The training exercise that might have torpedoed D-Day

Afghanistan War

5 of the worst things to put in a burn pit

By Tim Kirkpatrick

‘The Finest Hours’ vividly portrays one of the Coast Guard’s most heroic rescues ever

It took this Green Beret 48 years to get the Medal of Honor he deserved

By Blake Stilwell

This siege is one of Julius Caesar’s most spectacular victories

By Stephen Carlson

Afghanistan War

Everything the US has learned in Afghanistan the Brits learned in the 1800s

By James Elphick

Afghanistan War

This Marine walks off the battlefield after being shot in the neck

By Orvelin Valle

This F-15E scored an air-to-air kill by dropping a bomb on an Iraqi helicopter

By Blake Stilwell

Afghanistan War

The 10 best military-themed sketches from ‘Saturday Night Live’

New bill aims to give Coast Guard voting seat in Joint Chiefs of Staff

By Jessica Manfre

How the identity theft in ‘Mad Men’ would actually play out

By Eric Milzarski

This Medal of Honor recipient made a life out of fighting fascists

By Blake Stilwell

Why weapons like flamethrowers are permitted by the Geneva Convention

By Eric Milzarski

OSS agents gave the Dalai Lama a Patek Phillipe watch from FDR during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

The oldest recruit to complete Marine Corps boot camp

By Miguel Ortiz