History (Page 79)

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

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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

7 weapons that are used in the Marine infantry

By Tim Kirkpatrick

5 things you didn’t know about ‘Band of Brothers’

By Tim Kirkpatrick

How this storied Marine raid came back to bite America

By Harold C. Hutchison

All the times ISIS’ leader was declared killed in action

By Blake Stilwell

Why the US used an island-hopping campaign in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

How World War II pilots briefed missions is similar to today

By Harold C. Hutchison

These historical sidearms of the US military perfectly show its evolution

By Blake Stilwell

This bomber originally beat the iconic B-17 in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

This historic film shows the Lone Survivor raid of World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

The best American tank of World War II rarely saw combat

By Harold C. Hutchison

Thieves drained the bank account of the US’ oldest living veteran

By Blake Stilwell

Why one-third of the US thinks a second Civil War is coming

By Blake Stilwell

This is the flower that marked a German soldier as being elite

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The Aardvark was a nuclear-capable supersonic beast

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is why you can’t climb the arm of the Statue of Liberty anymore

By Blake Stilwell

The ‘Duck’ was just a truck inside a boat hull – but it worked

By Harold C. Hutchison

The history of the ‘Dead March’ played before military executions

By Blake Stilwell

That time engineers at China Lake MacGyvered a laser-guided missile

By Harold C. Hutchison

Why the Expert Field Medical Badge is one of the most difficult to earn

By Harold C. Hutchison

The Peashooter was actually the most advanced fighter of its time

By Harold C. Hutchison

The GOER Truck was a multipurpose vehicle ahead of its time

By Harold C. Hutchison

This American President started his day in the most veteran way possible

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Here’s the gear an average soldier carried in the Civil War

By Tim Kirkpatrick

That time the US and North Korea teamed up to fight Somali pirates

By Blake Stilwell

This was the Army’s fixed-wing recon plane

By Harold C. Hutchison

6 incredible facts about ‘Flying the Hump’ in World War II

By Blake Stilwell

Helen Patton honored her grandfather’s legacy—and the Army Airborne—with the ‘Remembrance Bowl’

By Eric Milzarski

These are the designations for the Navy’s marine mammals

By Harold C. Hutchison

6 ships and planes the Navy could hand down to the Coast Guard

By Harold C. Hutchison

A day in the life of a Vietnam War chopper pilot

By Harold C. Hutchison

5 things you didn’t know about the Battle of Midway

By Tim Kirkpatrick

That time Chile used a US Navy hand-me-down to bail out Canada

By Harold C. Hutchison

This small boat was crucial to D-Day’s success

By Harold C. Hutchison