History (Page 78)

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

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Selfless heroes of 9/11

By Jessica Evans

American’s favorite snacks invented by the military

By Jessica Evans

Ready for a new tattoo? The Air Force now has its own tattoo shop

By Jessica Evans

In Ancient Rome, purple was worth more than gold

Meet the Irish American battalion that en masse defected to Mexico

By Jessica Evans

Revolutionary War

How Ben Franklin helped establish the Post Office to win the Revolutionary War

By Jessica Evans

A Virginia dairy farm that used to hold Army spies is now a winery

By Jessica Evans

The Navy made Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer Honorary Naval Aviators

By Miguel Ortiz

7 things you didn’t know about Marcus Aurelius

Space Force is heading on deployment – to the Arabian Desert

By Jessica Evans

Air Force Academy and the experiment of enlisted faculty

By Jessica Evans

The fascinating platforms of 10 First Ladies

By Tessa Robinson

Vietnam war hero Charles Kettles has reportedly passed away

There was a real-life Major Payne who was way less funny

By Blake Stilwell

Here’s why Zippos are the unofficial lighter of the military

These insane defenses allow Switzerland to remain neutral

By Today I Found Out

This Nazi army was made entirely of Soviet POWs

7 regulations from von Steuben’s ‘Blue Book’ that troops still follow

By Eric Milzarski

This is how submariners spend their artificial days

By Eric Milzarski

That time the RAF bombed a POW camp with an artificial leg

Why ancient German women yelled at male warriors in combat

By Blake Stilwell

A ‘$30 Million Sandwich’ almost derailed the space program

By Blake Stilwell

This is how David Bowie helped bring down the Berlin Wall

By Blake Stilwell

Watch the 1950 Navy explain ‘vertical envelopment’

The Army’s desperate World War I fight for privates’ parts

Afghanistan War

Combat Flip-Flops’ latest is a beautiful, uniquely Afghan gift

6 things that made the Infantry Training Battalion terrible

This film is the beautiful story of a WWII romance told through love letters

By Blake Stilwell

That time the Goodyear blimb hunted Nazi subs

Afghanistan War

The insane story of a Russian aircrew’s daring escape from a Taliban prison

By Blake Stilwell

This 1871 expedition is the other Korean War

Revolutionary War

Why Revolutionary War musicians wore different colored uniforms

By Blake Stilwell

Here’s how World War II pilots flew the famous C-47 Skytrain

By Harold C. Hutchison

These are Frank Capra’s best World War II film works

By Harold C. Hutchison

Why Navy SEALs wore blue jeans in Vietnam

By Eric Milzarski

This train thief earned the first Medal of Honor

Jane Fonda opened up about the dumbest thing she ever did

By Blake Stilwell

This American-built King Cobra was passed on to the Russians

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is why old armies used to fight in lines

By Shannon Corbeil

Things seem bad but this is actually the most peaceful time in human history

By Shannon Corbeil

This European city has been destroyed by invaders 44 times

By Blake Stilwell

The United States tried to make a flying Jeep

By Harold C. Hutchison

The 12 principles of modern military leadership

By United States Army

This ‘demi-brigade’ is the Foreign Legion’s World War II pride

This ‘wooden shoe’ was really a deadly anti-personnel mine

By Harold C. Hutchison

Thousands more died in the Nazi blitz due to ignored spy reports

The airman who inspired ‘Good Morning Vietnam’ just died at 79

By Blake Stilwell

The Scorpion was Army airborne’s lightweight anti-tank firepower

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time some guy seized power in Montenegro and won a full-scale war

By Blake Stilwell

The USSR won an advanced jet engine from Rolls-Royce in a bet

By Blake Stilwell

When the French Army rebelled against its president

A cut-off Japanese garrison wiped out this endangered bird

By Harold C. Hutchison

This was the forgotten Air Force jet of the Korean War

By Harold C. Hutchison

The secret plan to firebomb Japan before Pearl Harbor

Why Task Force Smith was essential in the Korean War

By Harold C. Hutchison

What a battle between the Space Force and China would look like

This critical Navy system you’ve never heard about is retiring

By Harold C. Hutchison

Revolutionary War

This unlucky general was forced to surrender to Washington and Napoleon

This 30-year-old helo does the Coast Guard’s most important work

By Harold C. Hutchison

The awesome way ‘Jedi Knights’ helped win Desert Storm

What happened when a wannabe pilot was denied entry in the Air Force

By Blake Stilwell

8 things you didn’t know about the Solomons campaign

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Russian attack helo was supposed to be the deadliest in the USSR

By Harold C. Hutchison

7 awesome heroes of the French Foreign Legion