History (Page 68)

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

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WW2 fighter pilot and founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car dies at 94

This airman has advice for anyone working to be an Olympic lifter

By Blake Stilwell

This Air Force vet tells the story behind ‘Suicide Butterflies’ and her other tattoos

A US paratrooper escaped a Nazi prison to join the Red Army and liberate fellow POWs

By Blake Stilwell

One of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers just died at age 95

By Blake Stilwell

Tuskegee Airman and MLK bodyguard Dabney Montgomery dies at age 93

By Blake Stilwell

This corpsman’s sea story starts with a ‘Hello Kitty’ tattoo

How a one-armed Gurkha fought 200 Japanese troops with a bolt-action rifle

By Blake Stilwell

This time a selfless Army hero gets his turn at surprise

By Gidget Fuentes

8 parting thoughts from one of the Marine Corps’ ‘Chosin Few’

By Blake Stilwell

This famous author started his career drawing timeless cartoons as a drafted US troop

By Blake Stilwell

This is the Air Force vet who forced KSM to reveal his darkest secrets

By Harold C. Hutchison

Christmas wish list? The last original P-51 Mustang is up for sale

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time Taylor Swift dropped in on a World War II vet

By Harold C. Hutchison

How this one-armed Union soldier became ‘The Bravest Among the Brave’

By Frank Jastrzembski

6 military veterans who played in the Super Bowl

By Harold C. Hutchison

This female WWII veteran terrified a Saudi King while driving him around

By Blake Stilwell

This Marine batted the enemy’s grenades back at them

By James Elphick

These 6 women earned medals for gallantry in World War I

By Harold C. Hutchison

Meet the F-16 pilots who turned their wartime experiences into hilarious songs

By Harold C. Hutchison

8 US Navy ships named for women

By Harold C. Hutchison

112-year-old veteran and his secrets to life will make you smile

This is how the Patriot Guard escorted a fallen Marine home

By Harold C. Hutchison

Why Bangor, Maine is the most patriotic town in America

By Eric Milzarski

This is why Gettysburg is the spookiest battlefield in America

By Eric Milzarski

This pilot in his pajamas shot down an enemy fighter at Pearl Harbor

By Blake Stilwell

What happens if a PT boat took on a Littoral Combat Ship

By Harold C. Hutchison

This ship is so lethal because of its primary weapon – US Marines

By Harold C. Hutchison

America’s first jet fighter was made by a company known for helicopters today

By Harold C. Hutchison

How the ‘Warrior Pope’ led armies in vicious combat

What the possibility of a new Army PT test actually is

By Eric Milzarski

That time Mormons accidentally went to war with the US Army

By Blake Stilwell

Afghanistan War

This is the amazing life of the veteran with the most apt tattoo

By Eric Milzarski

This is how San Francisco wound up with a self-proclaimed ’emperor’

By Eric Milzarski

These Nazis cracked codes like wishbones

This musician survived the Holocaust despite being everything the Nazis hated

By Blake Stilwell

The Army sent soldiers to Vietnam to be ‘combat artists’

By Harold C. Hutchison

Revolutionary War

George Washington desperately wanted to be a British officer

Best medics ever: These docs gave absinthe

A World War I legionnaire wrote this ‘Rendezvous with Death’

The Soviet Union also made an airborne armored personnel carrier

By Harold C. Hutchison

Why the Emu War wasn’t as silly as folks make it out to be

By Eric Milzarski

“Milk Cows” were some of the most important subs in WWII

Why the real Ragnar Lothbrok is so shrouded in mystery

By Eric Milzarski

7 awesome pirate crews who plundered the Seven Seas

Why Germany insisted that France surrender in this train car

How Bette Davis’ club became the best spot for WWII troops

By Eric Milzarski

This is why the returned Korean War troops were draped in a UN flag

By Eric Milzarski

This was Nazi Germany’s primary fighter

By Harold C. Hutchison

This World War II battlefield will disappear forever

The true history of the Medal of Honor

These anti-sub ships show Japan learned from World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

How the Germans are reusing these invincible Nazi towers

The Gurkha who obliterated Japanese defenders with grenades and a bayonet

The British special operators who terrorized Japanese forces

This Civil War battle resulted in 120 Medals of Honor

This Coast Guard ship was a Venus fly trap for Nazi subs

The soldiers identifying the Korean War remains

The legendary engines that won World War II

8 disgusting diseases older troops had to worry about

The top-secret plan to cripple Berlin during a Soviet invasion

A communist soldier made a daring escape through the Berlin Wall in an APC

By Blake Stilwell

How one man defeated the US military by enlisting 8 times

By Blake Stilwell

A sailor’s worst nightmare: Surviving a sinking ship