History (Page 86)

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

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This is why General John Kelly could comfort families of fallen troops

By Blake Stilwell

The ‘Re-Up Bird’ was the most tireless Vietnam-era recruiter

By Blake Stilwell

This was the RAF’s insane plan to steal a Nazi plane

These 74 dead sailors from the Vietnam War are not honored on the Wall

By Harold C. Hutchison

Afghanistan War

Sebastian Junger’s ‘Hell on Earth’ chronicles the rise of ISIS in Syria

This Air Force prototype had a long life as a comic book fighter

By Harold C. Hutchison

Marine receives Silver Star for thwarting assassination attempt

By WATM Partners

Russia built an armored vehicle like the American M113

By Harold C. Hutchison

Afghanistan War

This British sniper took out six insurgents by detonating a Taliban suicide vest

By Blake Stilwell

Here’s why flamethrowers were so deadly on the battlefield for both sides

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This is the other awesome weapon named ‘Carl Gustav’

This was the most devastating submarine attack in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is how German submarines changed the world during World War I

By Harold C. Hutchison

7 life lessons we learned from the grunts in ‘Platoon’

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This was the toughest fight in the bloodiest WW2 battle of the Pacific

By James Elphick

Here’s what inspired the invention of the machine gun

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The only Native American general in the Civil War wore gray

By Harold C. Hutchison

This WWII commander avenged his fallen shipmates

By Harold C. Hutchison

How atomic bombs fueled Las Vegas tourism in the 1950s

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Russian sailor convinced an enemy garrison to surrender – after they took him prisoner

By Blake Stilwell

5 of the most badass snipers of all time

How a deadly insurgent sniper in Iraq taunted his pursuers

By WATM Partners

Medal of Honor recipient and former POW dies at 85

That time drunk samurai didn’t realize they were under attack

These kids volunteered to fight in the trenches in WWI

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for keeping his seat on a bus

This is the disease Hitler hid from the public for years

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This was the youngest soldier wounded in the Civil War

This knife-wielding Gurkha rushed four enemy foxholes and a bunker to save his unit

By Blake Stilwell

This is the legendary Nazi general who turned on Hitler

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This is how the Germans beat the British in one of the biggest naval battles of WWI

Here’s how ‘Taps’ got its name

By Tim Kirkpatrick

10 brothers who received the Medal of Honor

These Japanese fire balloons were the grandaddies of the ICBM

By Harold C. Hutchison

These are the creepy fake towns used for 1950s nuclear tests

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This Soviet WWII movie used real bullets instead of blanks

By Blake Stilwell

This is how you move a World War I railway howitzer to a museum

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is why German submarines attacked civilian vessels during World War I

By Harold C. Hutchison

4 badass Canadians who received the Medal of Honor

How Germany deployed the first weapon of mass destruction

This is how the ‘Molotov Cocktail’ got its name

That time the Russians rammed US Navy ships in the Black Sea

By Blake Stilwell

28 rarely seen photos from the Vietnam War

This lone Gurkha rifleman stopped three Japanese tanks in their tracks

By Blake Stilwell

This is what it’s like to be a secret service sniper

By Tim Kirkpatrick

6 legends of the Army Reserve

Japan’s greatest aircraft carrier was sank by a tiny sub

This Air Force jet landed itself after the pilot ejected

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This video shows rare footage from an actual Vietcong ambush

The reason Japanese battleships dwarfed American ships during WWII

The reason the British military formed the Special Air Service

5 countries that tried to shoot down the SR-71 Blackbird (and failed)

By Tim Kirkpatrick

U.S. Navy vet and comedian Charlie Murphy has died

This legendary pilot fought to his last bullet after being shot down

This Spitfire flaw gave the Nazis an edge in aerial dogfights

By Harold C. Hutchison

This man in Georgia restores WWII airplane ball turrets in his garage

This aging Russian plane was the Tomahawk strike’s target

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time the US military sprayed toxic germs on American cities

By Blake Stilwell

This massive World War II air offensive had an adorable name

This is what Mongol MREs looked like

Revolutionary War

Maryland’s ‘Immortal 400’ saved the entire American Revolution

By Blake Stilwell

This pilot was saved when the enemy shot him in the bullet

Navy grounds T-45 Goshawk fleet after pilot protests

By Christian Lowe

This female amputee led French commandos behind Nazi lines