History (Page 93)

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

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This torpedo was WWII Japan’s other Kamikaze weapon

By Blake Stilwell

These Coast Guard special operators fight terrorists and secure American ports

The Army wants to see inside volunteers’ guts after weeks of an all-MRE diet

That time Japanese soldiers cannibalized US pilots in World War II

The US used this cartoon turtle to prepare kids for nuclear war

5 everyday items with military roots

By Blake Stilwell

5 resistance groups who tore apart their occupiers

NORAD tracking Santa on Christmas Eve started with a misprinted phone number

By Blake Stilwell

Here is a reminder why the coalition thought Saddam Hussein needed to go

By Orvelin Valle

The Royal Navy is using US troops to crew their ships, but this time we won’t go to war over it

By Blake Stilwell

Enlisted pilots will fly for the first time since World War II

By Blake Stilwell

This World War I hero wanted to recruit race car drivers to be fighter pilots

A few years ago the top YouTuber was a WWII vet telling stories

By Blake Stilwell

Afghanistan War

Listen to accused deserter Bowe Bergdahl tell his story publicly for the first time

By Blake Stilwell

Here’s how the Nazis helped Israel during the first wars against Arab states

8 invasions that failed horribly

Listen to the famed “Rebel Yell” as yelled by real Civil War rebels

This impostor was hanged for being the biggest Jody ever

By Blake Stilwell

This is the only flag allowed to fly above the Stars and Stripes

By Blake Stilwell

This sex cult used salad bars as a bioterrorism weapon against American voters

By Blake Stilwell

5 times the US military ripped victory from the jaws of defeat

Air Force fighters got wasted by Army attack helos in this combat experiment

By Blake Stilwell

That time those combat cameramen won an Oscar for covering the Battle of Tarawa

By Blake Stilwell

That time the Japanese made a last-ditch plan to spread the plague in Calfornia

By Stephen Carlson

The 5 most decorated troops in American history

This airman enlisted to be an accountant and instead became the first female ICBM maintainer

By Blake Stilwell

This video shows the awesomeness of the US Navy’s submarine force

By Orvelin Valle

This artist did a World War 2-Star Wars mashup and the result is intense

By Blake Stilwell

How bad weather mixed with bad planning resulted in the Civil War’s ‘Mud March’

By Stephen Carlson

This Civil War guerilla sought revenge by sniping over 100 Union soldiers

This video shows why quadruple-amputee Travis Mills is an inspiration to all

By Paul Szoldra

5 bad luck military events that happened on Friday the 13th

By Blake Stilwell

This Marine made history’s 5th longest sniper kill with a machine gun

A brief history of the Berlin Wall, “the monument to Communist failure”

By Blake Stilwell

History’s 6 greatest sniper duels

Meet the sailor who served with the Axis and the Allies and survived three sinking ships

By Blake Stilwell

This Army unit uses Mickey Mouse in its logo — and Disney is totally cool with it

Here’s why the Air Force’s B-52 has only gotten better with age

By Orvelin Valle

These massive submarines were actually stealthy aircraft carriers

The Navy once delivered mail for the Post Office — via missile

By Blake Stilwell

Top 10 craziest plans the Nazis had for world domination

By Orvelin Valle

World War III nearly started when the Soviet premier was banned from Disneyland

How the Russians captured an American jet in the Korean War

One of history’s longest sniper kills happened during the Civil War

Shopping malls were created with nuclear war in mind

9 steps to getting a soldier into (and out of) a war zone

Watch this year’s Marine Corps birthday message celebrating 240 years of service

By Paul Szoldra

Adolf Hitler had a British nephew who joined the Navy during WWII

Marine Corps finally adopts the M4 as its main rifle

Afghanistan War

‘Kilo Two Bravo’ tells the harrowing true story of soldiers trapped in an Afghan minefield

Afghanistan War

Porn, cowboys and other things Osama Bin Laden obsessed over

By Orvelin Valle

The Nazi’s (implausible) plan to invade the American mainland

By Paul Szoldra

Pentagon releases name of Delta Force soldier killed by ISIS in Iraq

By Paul Szoldra

Afghanistan War

This combat footage shows Special Forces raiding a terrorist compound

By Orvelin Valle

American soldier killed in Iraq while rescuing more than 70 ISIS hostages

By Paul Szoldra

The Russian military officer who ‘saved the world’ from nuclear armageddon in 1983

By Paul Szoldra

5 weapons designed for just one target each

Afghanistan War

Fast-mover hit by enemy ground fire over Afghanistan

By Ward Carroll

Project Orion: The space engine powered by nuclear weapons

By Blake Stilwell

8 American military legends who were honored as foreign knights

The US Air Force really did try to suppress an amazing A-10 video

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the Marine sniper who killed 32 insurgents in 13 days

By Orvelin Valle

Inside the Army’s secret Cold War ice base

By Military.com

7 times the US almost stumbled into war with Russia