History (Page 94)

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

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Afghanistan War

This video shows the adrenaline rush soldiers feel after being shot at

By Orvelin Valle

This Medal of Honor recipient was a convicted deserter

The fascinating story behind the military’s use of the 21-gun salute

A first-hand look at how Army National Guard helicopter crews fight massive forest fires

That time a group of officers got drunk and trashed Naval Aviation’s culture forever

By Ward Carroll

A brief history of coffee in the US military

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the Marine general who allegedly stopped a US government takeover

By Blake Stilwell

The story of Wojtek: The 440-pound bear that drank, smoked, and carried weapons for the Polish army during World War II

The best World War II anime series

This Army private is to blame for military cadence calls

These women served by serving booze to soldiers in battle

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the US military veterans fighting ISIS

By Blake Stilwell

4 urban myths with military roots

By Blake Stilwell

Hitler had a secret plan to take over Britain — and his generals thought it was idiotic

By Paul Szoldra

Here’s what would happen if modern Marines battled the Roman Empire

This sniper is credited with over 500 kills

By Orvelin Valle

Air Force Pararescue Jumper reunites with girl he saved after Hurricane Katrina

By Blake Stilwell

The most powerful American militia groups throughout history

The 9 most devastating nuclear weapons in the world

The cover story that helped the CIA pull off one of the Cold War’s most epic heists

By Paul Szoldra

‘The best kept secret in the Navy’ — The elite boat commandos supporting Navy SEALs

By Paul Szoldra

17 insane Russian military inventions

History’s most dangerous humanitarian mission: When Allied pilots dropped food into Nazi occupied territory

The oldest living female World War II veteran just turned 108

10 ways Ernest Hemingway was a next-level American warrior

By Blake Stilwell

That time a US Navy aircraft carrier was shut down by a race riot

By Ward Carroll

The A-10 ‘sparks panic’ in ISIS fighters, so why does the Air Force want to kill it?

By Blake Stilwell

This is what the Air Force thought nuclear war would look like in 1960

This secret World War II raid kept the Germans from getting nukes

That time when Americans and Germans fought together during World War II

By Paul Szoldra

This beauty queen became a top-tier spy in World War II

These five countries fought a war that was literally over bird sh-t

5 crimes involving a lot of troops that were forgiven by the United States

By Blake Stilwell

This one South Carolina county raised 4 Medal of Honor recipients

Inside the USS New York — the ship built with steel from the World Trade Center

By Orvelin Valle

The Special Forces who avenged 9/11 on horseback

By Blake Stilwell

How 9/11 unfolded, through the eyes of the pilot of Air Force One

By Paul Szoldra

This Israeli special ops vet was the first to fall on 9/11

This WWII tank crew laid waste and inspired the movie ‘Fury’

The awesome A-10 video the Air Force doesn’t want you to see

By Blake Stilwell

These artists create awesome vintage-style military posters

By Blake Stilwell

6 chaplains who became heroes — without ever carrying a weapon

How this letter from a genius pacifist inspired the US to build the most powerful weapon known to man

How a band of locals helped American Rangers save 500 prisoners of war

Afghanistan War

This reporter covered war up close before he was murdered by ISIS

By Orvelin Valle

The ambitious US Air Force plan to make a flying aircraft carrier

By Paul Szoldra

The 5 craziest ideas the British had for battling German subs

Looks like the A-10 will battle the F-35 for CAS dominance after all

By Blake Stilwell

5 American generals buried in more than one place

The first ‘battle’ of World War II was a Nazi war crime

By Paul Szoldra

Every surface ship in the Chinese navy, in one chart

This American comedy legend defused land mines in World War II

By Paul Szoldra

The Japanese army had a ‘kill 100 people with a sword’ contest in 1937

That time the Nazis built a gigantic plane that could haul 95,000 pounds of gear

By Paul Szoldra

The most famous battles fought by Gen. George Patton

That time Nixon wanted commies to think he was crazy enough to nuke them

By Blake Stilwell

32 times when the US military screwed up with nukes

By Blake Stilwell

A ‘ghost train’ lost in World War II with 300 tons of gold may have been found

America’s first fighter jet was designed before Pearl Harbor — but the Army rejected it

This horse racing track used to be a WWII Japanese Internment Camp

By Blake Stilwell

Every American war summed up in a sentence

6 of the wildest top secret spy missions of World War II

The story of the last American to die in World War II

By Paul Szoldra

The most iconic World War II planes