History (Page 71)

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

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Why Elvis’ time in the Army scared the hell out of the communists

By Eric Milzarski

This is why cadets have shouted “Go Army! Beat Navy!” for over a century

By Eric Milzarski

6 heroes who saved American lives on Heartbreak Ridge

This is why the infamous glider regiments quietly fizzled out of history

By Eric Milzarski

3 Marines receive Purple Hearts for actions in Syria

How Godzilla films were actually a metaphor for how postwar Japan saw the world

By Eric Milzarski

What it’s like to be strapped into the U-2 Dragon Lady

The bloody story behind the bells the US returned to the Philippines

By Blake Stilwell

6 games World War I soldiers played in the trenches

Hitler had no idea the Soviets were so strong before invading

By Blake Stilwell

Navy might know what sank its only major warship lost in WWI

The only successful missile attack on a US warship was an Iraqi sucker punch

By Blake Stilwell

We just missed horse day, so here’s hero Sgt. Reckless

This heroic working dog conducted 210 combat missions while deployed

Russia might be preparing to invade Ukraine right now

By Blake Stilwell

This is why NORAD began keeping an eye out for Santa Claus

By Eric Milzarski

How Panama actually started its war with the United States

By Blake Stilwell

4 things you didn’t know about the agent who took down Al Capone

Autopsy of a German tank killed in World War I combat

This is how the Roman economy funded military expansion

Why names are added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

By Blake Stilwell

7 craziest ways you could fight in the World Wars

Revolutionary War

4 battles brought to you by booze

This is what the Army’s nasty ’emergency chocolate bars’ tasted like

By Eric Milzarski

The candy man who revolutionized tank design

How ‘Saving Private Ryan’ could use a sequel, but not in the way Hollywood thinks

By Eric Milzarski

Saddam thought the US was cool with an invasion of Kuwait

By Blake Stilwell

What it was like to suffer a German U-boat attack

An American is now a senior ISIS commander in Syria

By Blake Stilwell

World War II’s most decorated woman was a housewife-turned-spy

By Blake Stilwell

Why a judge willingly shared this green beret’s jail sentence

By Blake Stilwell

The man who set himself on fire to stop Russian tanks

Steve Carell to make a ‘Space Force’ Netflix comedy

By Shannon Corbeil

What happened to the dead bodies after big battles in history

By Today I Found Out

This soldier was so daring even his captured enemies patted him on the back

By Blake Stilwell

The Space Medal of Honor is the highest award for astronauts

By Blake Stilwell

This was the first tank designed for nuclear war

Watch R. Lee Ermey laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery

By Blake Stilwell

Hitler’s train was a rolling fortress named after America

How bureaucratic nonsense made the M16 less effective

The man who saved North Carolina from nukes speaks out

Afghanistan War

US wants Afghanistan exit after Taliban peace talks

By Business Insider

An astrologer may have helped end the Cold War

By Megan Miller

This is what those ‘metal things’ were on Normandy beaches

By Today I Found Out

This was the all-out US war plan for the entire Middle East

By Blake Stilwell

The heroic four chaplains and the sinking of the USAT Dorchester

Afghanistan War

This canine prisoner of war is still held by Taliban captors

By Blake Stilwell

A Nazi rescued 200,000 Chinese civilians from a massacre

By Blake Stilwell

How Crazy Horse earned his ‘insane’ name as a child

By Blake Stilwell

This soldier saved his entire crew after taking an RPG to the head

By Blake Stilwell

The Marine Corps tested a skateboard unit in the 1990s

By Blake Stilwell

A US President and Soviet Chairman won a Grammy together

By Blake Stilwell

Nope, ‘God & The 3 Mistakes’ is not what happened after Pearl Harbor

The chemical weapon so deadly even the Nazis couldn’t use it

By Blake Stilwell

That time infantry captured a Nazi train filled with lingerie

This was the plan for a 747 aircraft carrier

Whatever happened to the military’s ‘grease gun’

By Blake Stilwell

This carrier, a veteran of the Doolittle Raid, was just rediscovered after 76 years

The 48th Fighter Wing gave 3 F-15s badass D-Day commemorative schemes

See how an individual scout survived the massacre at Little Bighorn

The man who took 42 Nazis captive with a longsword

That time the Royal Navy welded together a ‘Frankenship’

By Blake Stilwell

This is how Beretta ended up as the US military’s sidearm for three decades

By Blake Stilwell

The ‘most hated person in the Air Force’ just died

By Blake Stilwell