War History (Page 3)

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

Latest in War History

The story behind the World War II aircraft that started Air Force One

By Stephen Ruiz

AUSA graphic novel spotlights ex-NFL player who earned the Medal of Honor

By Stephen Ruiz

Tom Hanks’ new 20-part docuseries takes a new look at World War II

By Blake Stilwell

Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf’s Beretta M9 from Desert Storm is going up for auction

By Miguel Ortiz

How Ronald Reagan healed scars from Vietnam on Memorial Day in 1984

By Stephen Ruiz

This Black Green Beret battled communists and racism in Vietnam

By Miguel Ortiz

The sensational defection of Stalin’s daughter to the US during the Cold War

By Stephen Ruiz

History Channel doc revisits boxing’s most politically charged rivalry

The United States created rules for encountering a Yeti during the Cold War

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the 12-year-old sailor who fought at Guadalcanal

By Stephen Ruiz

How the world’s first-ever Pyrrhic victory went down

By Blake Stilwell

21 facts about the First Gulf War

By Blake Stilwell

Why Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen troops wore Darth Vader helmets

By Blake Stilwell

Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ comes to life in a new Tralfamadore exhibit

By Blake Stilwell

Here’s what happened when North Korea actually hit an American battleship

By Blake Stilwell

Gruesome ax murders in the Korean DMZ almost started another Korean War

By Blake Stilwell

A New York artist painted each of the Red Baron’s 80 aerial kills

By Bethaney Phillips

The American general most respected by the Nazis might surprise you

By Blake Stilwell

A new AI database helps viewers search for Nazi families

By Blake Stilwell

The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 days that almost ended the world

By Blake Stilwell

The USS Devilfish suffered the only kamikaze attack on a US submarine

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Trailblazing Vietnam veteran helped reveal how humans came to be

By Stephen Ruiz

Before 3 tours in Vietnam, this fighter pilot dropped nearly 20 miles from high above

By Stephen Ruiz

Afghanistan War

The history of Rip It, the beverage that fueled the War on Terror

By Blake Stilwell

This is why the 1st Marine Division ships out to ‘Waltzing Matilda’

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the dog who went from a family pet to a World War II hero

By Stephen Ruiz

A tank commander recounts the Gulf War Battle of Medina Ridge in ‘Bandit’

By Blake Stilwell

The immense challenge of teaching World War II in 270 minutes

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The National Guard unit that stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day

How these Navy submariners worked to save themselves after their sub sank

By Stephen Ruiz

The story of 4 brothers who served on the Juneau with the Sullivans

By Stephen Ruiz

This No. 1 overall draft pick became the NFL’s MVP while in the Army

By Stephen Ruiz

How this Air Force spy plane traveled from coast to coast in record time

By Stephen Ruiz

Ola Mize became ‘the Audie Murphy of the Korean War’ by fighting off a Chinese division

By Blake Stilwell

The secret telegram that defined the Cold War before it began

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The ‘Gray Ghosts’ of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Daniel Tobias Flint

An Air Force plane crashed in Death Valley during the Cold War (and is still there)

By Stephen Ruiz

The Pinkertons were America’s most powerful private army, then Congress banned them

By Daniel Tobias Flint

7 hours of grit and determination that changed the Civil War

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How to join the National World War II Museum’s celebration for ‘Band of Brothers’ 25th annivesary

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

The US Navy’s first submarine was a hand-cranked wooden egg

By Daniel Tobias Flint

A Nazi was the only person convicted of spying in connection with Pearl Harbor

By Stephen Ruiz

The forgotten Civil War legacy of America’s most notorious prison

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Audie Murphy’s Medal of Honor action is still like something out of a movie

Blake Stilwell, Military.com

How friendly fire could have killed Scotty from ‘Star Trek’ on D-Day

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

Washington’s most terrifying general was shot in the head and refused to leave the battle

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Ukraine is using a World War I ‘creeping barrage’ tactic to turn the tide of the war

By Blake Stilwell

This Navy aviator escaped his captors during the Vietnam War and lived to tell about it

By Stephen Ruiz

How a bidding war inspired a WWI veteran to push for an NFL draft

By Stephen Ruiz

‘Masters of the Air’ got a definitive new edition from The Folio Society

By Blake Stilwell

How a steamboat carrying Union soldiers became ‘America’s Titanic’

By Stephen Ruiz

The ship that delivered the atomic bomb was sunk, and nobody came to look for it

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

The Liberty Bell was named by abolitionists, not the founding fathers

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

More Americans died on one British prison ship than in most Revolutionary War combat

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

George Washington’s secret spy code name was Agent 711

By Daniel Tobias Flint

That time Neil Armstrong survived ejecting from his fighter jet in Korea

By Stephen Ruiz

A Medal of Honor recipient used a dud enemy mortar to save US troops during WWII

By Stephen Ruiz

The Civil War created the modern American funeral industry

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How the fastest manmade object ever was once a manhole cover launched by a nuke

The combat jumps of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team in Korea

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Decorated Navy vet Bob Feller is the only MLB pitcher to throw an Opening Day no-hitter

By Stephen Ruiz

RED Friday returns as combat deployments ramp up

By Adam Gramegna

How the daring rescue of 3 Army soldiers after a WWII plane crash in ‘Shangri-La’ unfolded

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Why the Union wore blue and the Confederacy gray during the Civil War