History (Page 81)

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

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That time the Japanese tried to bomb the US using balloons

By Tim Kirkpatrick

5 surprising facts about naval aviation

How Marine Raiders saved the day at the Battle of Edson’s Ridge

By James Elphick

That time two Navy legends fought a duel with Marines

This armored vehicle sports an anti-aircraft cannon

By Harold C. Hutchison

This lone soldier saved his company by fighting 100 enemy soldiers

By Blake Stilwell

How the Air Force makes the ‘smell of victory’

By Harold C. Hutchison

3 times Switzerland accidentally invaded its neighbor

By Eric Milzarski

Revolutionary War

Chris Kyle’s 10 most definitive American weapons of all time

Watch the TOW anti-tank missile in action in Vietnam

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Navy ship scored America’s first submarine kill of WWII

By Harold C. Hutchison

The reason Robert Mueller volunteered to fight in Vietnam

By Shannon Corbeil

Why Elvis Presley’s Army career was remarkably unremarkable

By Eric Milzarski

Revolutionary War

This was the weapon that won the revolutionary war

This version of the F-86 Sabre was meant to kill enemy bombers

By Harold C. Hutchison

Watch how soldiers extract a tactical truck stuck in the mud

By Harold C. Hutchison

Why the Navy constantly checks on this sunken cruiser

By Harold C. Hutchison

5 ways Morse code is better than text messaging

By Eric Milzarski

That time Russia used children to spy on a US embassy

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This hero was so deadly, they called him ‘Black Death’

This fight proves Stephen Decatur is the most intense sailor ever

5 American jet fighters that later became devastating bombers

By Harold C. Hutchison

Warriors in their Own Words: A day in the life of a Vietnam War combat medic

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The first female F-35 pilot proves flying is a gender equalizer

By Jacqlyn Cope

How the Army is resurrecting coastal artillery

By Harold C. Hutchison

Why the term ‘every Marine is a rifleman’ needs to stop

5 things you didn’t know about the first female Marines

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Afghanistan War

How Afghanistan got its bizarre panhandle

By Blake Stilwell

A WWII veteran’s son captures stories left untold in ‘My Father’s War’

By Blake Stilwell

How US sailors can be confined in the brig with just bread and water

By Blake Stilwell

That time the Viet Cong took out a Navy transport

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time North Dakota seceded from the Union

By Blake Stilwell

How enemy aircraft get their American nicknames

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time terrorists seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca

By James Elphick

Middle America used to be chock-full of pirates

By Casie Stilwell

6 things that will surprise you about Mojave Viper

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Blinded by flak shrapnel, this airman helped save his B-17 crew

This rocket was the 82nd Airborne’s compact tactical nuke

By Harold C. Hutchison

How Najaf became the Marines’ forgotten battle in Iraq

By Donald Baker

Why getting the Antarctica Service Medal is so difficult

By Eric Milzarski

6 deadliest battles for troops to fight in

By Eric Milzarski

5 reasons the USMC Blue Dress A is the greatest uniform of all time

Tom Hanks is teaming up with Dale Dye for a new D-Day blockbuster

8 reasons why the Army should update its combatives manual

By Eric Milzarski

What you need to know about 1st SFAB’s uniform update

By Eric Milzarski

That time Australia fought a war against emus… and lost

How ‘The 4 Chaplains’ of WWII became Army legends

By Harold C. Hutchison

1968 was the deadliest year for submariners post-WWII

How a war between Michigan and Ohio would play out today

By Eric Milzarski

How bombing the crap out of Iwo Jima hurt America’s assault

By Tim Kirkpatrick

4 powerful weapons you didn’t know were built by Ford

By Blake Stilwell

New changes to the ‘Pinks and Greens’ will make it the best uniform ever

By Eric Milzarski

5 more of the greatest military heroes you’ve never heard of

This pilot landed her shot-up A-10 by pulling cables

By Forest Corbeil

This is how Coast Guardsmen mark victories over smugglers

By Eric Milzarski

This is what different berets mean in the Army and Air Force

The original stealth fighter absolutely destroyed in Desert Storm

By Harold C. Hutchison

The truth about why the US released ISIS’ leader in 2004

By Blake Stilwell

Marine Corps cobra helicopters will soon be for sale

By Harold C. Hutchison

How you can be cast in Tom Hanks’ new film as a Navy Crewman

By Eric Milzarski

These ‘Q-ships’ used to fool subs and take torpedoes in both world wars

Why the F-86 was so deadly over Korea

By Harold C. Hutchison

Afghanistan War

4 ways the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan are the same

By Tim Kirkpatrick

A Vietnam vet’s daughter wrote this funny, heartfelt obituary for her dad

By Blake Stilwell