War History (Page 2)

Stories and coverage of every American war—from the Revolutionary War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Latest in War History

The Loyal Lee: Robert E. Lee’s cousin took the war to the South with the Union Navy

The fight to recognize Doris Miller’s valor at Pearl Harbor

By Miguel Ortiz

A National Guard unit saw the most combat during World War II

The Civil War started and ended at the same guy’s house

By Blake Stilwell

5 battles the side with all the numbers still lost—against all odds

By Blake Stilwell

The BBC broadcast Britain’s Falklands War invasion plan before the invasion

By Blake Stilwell

Rigged shells, poison pens, the mob: inventive ways the CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro

By Stephen Ruiz

Afghanistan War

Why the Pentagon tried to convince Pat Tillman not to become an Army Ranger

By Stephen Ruiz

Low river waters in Hungary’s capital reveal World War II dead

By Blake Stilwell

The tense discussions behind Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This Wall’ speech

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

4 Revolutionary War ghosts that refuse to die

By Blake Stilwell

How Paul Newman survived 2 close calls in the Navy during World War II

By Stephen Ruiz

Finland beat the Russians so hard we’re still cheering for them 80 years later

How this Medal of Honor recipient finally came home from the Korean War

By Stephen Ruiz

This Medal of Honor recipient’s healing hands spelled trouble for the Japanese at Okinawa

By Stephen Ruiz

Why it took 2 decades for ‘Patton’ to make it to the big screen

By Stephen Ruiz

When the CIA used Howard Hughes as a cover to retrieve a Soviet submarine

By Stephen Ruiz

Inside Operation Frequent Wind and the scramble to get US military out of Vietnam

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

Vermont built its Founding Father a 42-foot monument. Then couldn’t find his body.

Did Hollywood’s most frequent ‘Dracula’ embellish his military service?

By Stephen Ruiz

The ‘Purple Heart Battalion’ fought Nazis abroad and injustice at home

By Stephen Ruiz

How ‘Axis Sally’ became the first woman convicted of treason against the US

By Stephen Ruiz

Why the Army’s longest battle ever involved multiple cease-fires

By Stephen Ruiz

Chinese farmers built a road up an impassible mountain to bring home American airmen from World War II

By Blake Stilwell

The enduring mystery of a Navy ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle

By Stephen Ruiz

Why the CIA once bought up the world’s supply of LSD during the Cold War

By Stephen Ruiz

6 songs that will always remind America of the Vietnam War

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

The Marquis de Lafayette’s Paris gravesite is filled with dirt from Massachusetts

By Blake Stilwell

James Bond’s longest-running ‘Q’ survived 5 excruciating years as a POW

By Stephen Ruiz

How an American Nazi became the World War II propagandist ‘Lord Haw-Haw’

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Green Beret ‘Hatchet Forces’ terrorized the communists during the Vietnam War

By Friedrich Seiltgen

A Medal of Honor recipient explains what being an American means

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

Celebrate America’s 250th with a real Revolutionary War cocktail

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Graphic novel spotlights the covert dealings that helped win the American Revolution

By Stephen Ruiz

How the US protected ‘utterly irreplaceable’ documents during World War II

By Stephen Ruiz

These were the last surviving veterans of every major American war through World War I

By Blake Stilwell

An Army vet honored a fallen comrade with a historic Appalachian Trail hike

By Stephen Ruiz

Why one of the largest Soviet war memorials is in Berlin

By Bethaney Phillips

A former violinist singlehandedly cleared a mountain fortress during World War II

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

What happened to the German mercenaries who fought against the American Revolution

By Blake Stilwell

What happened on the final flight of the namesake for Edwards Air Force Base

By Stephen Ruiz

How a Holocaust survivor saved 40 POWs in Korea

By Stephen Ruiz

Two legendary Vietnam War Marines and a GWOT Green Beret received the Medal of Honor

By Miguel Ortiz

The vital role that the US Army played in the establishment of Juneteenth

By Stephen Ruiz

How Mel Brooks kept his sense of humor while serving in World War II

By Stephen Ruiz

Meet the one-legged spy who helped rid the world of the Nazis

By Stephen Ruiz

This Medal of Honor recipient turned on his helicopter lights during a risky rescue in Vietnam

By Stephen Ruiz

How the Vermont National Guard scored the first major victory against the British

The ‘Iron Division’ of World War I came from the Pennsylvania National Guard

This National Guard unit fought alongside Marine Raiders in the Pacific

The story of the only US soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

The last 6 Revolutionary War veterans survived long enough to be photographed

By Blake Stilwell

A Vietnam War pilot who purposely went down with his plane may receive the Medal of Honor

By Blake Stilwell

Iraq’s ‘Triangle of Death’ is still famously dangerous real estate

By Adam Gramegna

This cemetery is the final resting place for the Army’s ‘dishonorable dead’

By Blake Stilwell

The Marines and the rare rifles you didn’t know were at D-Day

By Miguel Ortiz

How the Marine Corps fought the Civil War

By Blake Stilwell

This American flag survived D-Day, then was returned to the US 75 years later

By Stephen Ruiz

Vietnam vet Bill Roedy left the Army for cable TV—and helped win the Cold War

By Blake Stilwell

Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient Bruce ‘Snake’ Crandall dies at 93

By Miguel Ortiz

The $1 billion robbery that Saddam Hussein pulled off before US bombs fell

By Stephen Ruiz

How his father’s time in a Japanese POW camp influenced Bill Nye

By Stephen Ruiz

The US Navy took out a German sub in a legendary, high-stakes WWII battle

By Friedrich Seiltgen

The tragedy and controversy surrounding Operation Babylift

By Stephen Ruiz