History (Page 61)

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

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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

Today in military history: CIA launches mind-control program MKULTRA

The Marine Corps wrote the book on ‘small wars,’ literally

By James Elphick

Spanish-American War

This is how Theodore Roosevelt turned a ‘cowboy cavalry’ into the battle-ready ‘Rough Riders’

By James Elphick

Here’s why the Warthog is the greatest close air support aircraft ever

The Army went old school and named this Stryker the ‘Dragoon’

By Harold C. Hutchison

Actually, the Maginot Line was a good idea

When bayonet fighting was an Olympic sport

The odds of dying in an American war (applying the Lt. Dan scale)

By Blake Stilwell

Chesty Puller may have been America’s first Wolverine

The Indian navy is a lot more awesome than you’d think

By Harold C. Hutchison

That one time Eisenhower lost a B-17 bomber in a bet

How sailors keep their warships from breaking down

The history of the modern military salute

By Shannon Corbeil

This Aussie submachine gun looked whacky but it worked

Russia once tried to join NATO, an alliance against Russia

By Blake Stilwell

This top-secret unit killed 5,428 and rescued 574 in WWII

Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh and WWII naval hero died at 99

By Miguel Ortiz

A Tale of Two Bases – JBLM’s interesting history

By Jessica Evans

Watch how the Marine Corps disposes of unwanted ammo

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The M45 ‘Meat Chopper’ butchered the Axis and a bunch of commies

By Harold C. Hutchison

The surprisingly long history of the flamethrower

By Eric Milzarski

This was the only living African-American from WW2 to earn MoH

By Tim Kirkpatrick

7 highlights from the CIA’s medical history of Hitler

This is the gear a British soldier carried into battle in WWI

By Tim Kirkpatrick

British troops in World War I used miracle moss for bandages

7 Air Force song facts that will make you want to go off into the wild blue yonder

By Shannon Corbeil

There was a time when duels ‘downsized’ the officer ranks

This Marine pilot took 22 Japanese fighters head on – then led an infantry charge

By Blake Stilwell

Lyrics you shouldn’t text your friends if you’re in the Air Force

By Blake Stilwell

This German city faked its way to safety during WWII

By Bethaney Phillips

This is why the American Civil War happened

By Blake Stilwell

This is the military origin of ‘turning a blind eye’ to anything

A rare look beyond the gates at Ellsworth AFB

By Jessica Evans

The most outstanding soldier of World War I actually fought in three wars

This is how “RED Friday” became a thing and why it still matters today

By Eric Milzarski

This bazooka-armed motorbike might be the most ‘French’ weapon of all time

The suicidal way China scored its first World War II victory against Japan

Ailing Korean War vet gets a lesson in Semper Fi from his fellow Marines

By Janine Stange

Check out this tiny Navy SEAL team survival kit

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Afghanistan War

The longest-serving U.S. commander in Afghanistan stays strapped

By Miguel Ortiz

Check out this Cold-War era abandoned military base in Vermont

By Jessica Evans