War History (Page 30)

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

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This is why World War I-era British spies used semen as invisible ink

By Blake Stilwell

The experimental rifle that almost changed World War II

The Navy’s first drone saw action during WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

This is how Hitler’s drug addiction may have caused him to lose the war

This experimental WWII tank was like a Sherman on steroids

By Miguel Ortiz

How the phrase ‘God is my co-pilot’ started with the World War II Air Forces

A WWI Hungarian soldier turned out to be a serial killer

By Bethaney Phillips

The 54th Massachusetts ‘Glory’ Memorial was rededicated after it was vandalized

By Miguel Ortiz

Warriors in their own words: The ‘Tunnel Rats’ of Vietnam

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Pfc. Bradford Freeman, the last ‘Band of Brothers’ soldier, dies at 97

By Miguel Ortiz

This daring commando raid’s only injury was from a negligent discharge

Why you don’t hear about the German Navy on D-Day

This pilot crashed his plane into the guns that shot him down

America’s secret supersonic spy drones flew over China in the 1960s

By Alex Hollings

Here’s the most influential US general you’ve never heard of

By Stephen Carlson

A Medal of Honor recipient tore his way through Vietnam while being stalked by a tiger

Last WWII Medal of Honor recipient, Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams, passes away at 98

By Miguel Ortiz

The real man behind the fake body used in ‘Operation Mincemeat’

How one Soviet agent single-handedly changed the course of World War II

This Medal of Honor citation reads like an action movie plot

This was the Air Force’s super fighter that never flew

The 5 vehicles most crucial to winning World War II

Afghanistan War

The KGB’s Alpha Group left terrorists in fear of the Soviet Union

The ‘last casualty of the Civil War’ died of his wounds in 1914

Why the enemy should have brought a battalion to kill this soldier

By Blake Stilwell

How Green Berets earned the nickname ‘snake eaters’ and how it helped them in Vietnam

The Army Chief learned about Pearl Harbor in 14 words

Revolutionary War

Top 3 tactical withdrawals in military history

The namesake of Tinker Air Force Base was a total badass

How the KGB trained its ‘illegal’ sleeper agents

The US plan to survive a Soviet nuke was absolutely bonkers

Revolutionary War

George Washington was nearly impossible to kill

By Blake Stilwell

The Black Chamber: How the ladies of early American codebreaking helped win the Battle of Midway

These fighter pilots literally pushed their wingmen to safety

By Miguel Ortiz

This Green Beret spent his life fighting communists in three different armies

By Miguel Ortiz

This is how the Alamo Scouts became the first Special Forces

By Blake Stilwell

The Nazis had a nuclear reactor in World War II

Aussie special forces used sawed-off machine guns in Vietnam

By Blake Stilwell

The US plan to train nuclear suicide bomber paratroopers

By Blake Stilwell

The wreck of the destroyer escort that fought like a battleship during WWII has been found

By Miguel Ortiz

Lend-lease: What was old is new again, with an ironic twist

Why Russia’s Typhoon-Class submarines are so massive

Why World War I pilot Eddie Rickenbacker is such a legendary hero

The reason the M1 Garand used to jam every 7th round

By Miguel Ortiz

Before the attack helicopter, this WWII plane was named the Apache

By Miguel Ortiz

This insane pilot conducted first combat search and rescue

This American bomber-killing missile had a nuclear punch

By Harold C. Hutchison

How German troops at Stalingrad behaved when they were on leave from the battle

The last prisoner of World War II was found in Russia in 2000

The ‘Big Red One’ led the fight from WWI to Iraq

This is how much troops were paid in every major American war

This forgotten soldier survived 4 months in Dunkirk by himself

By Tim Kirkpatrick

That time the Air Force landed bombers on tank treads

This WWII battle had ships firing point blank with 16-inch guns

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is the toolkit spies carried in their butts

This Army dentist died mowing down 98 attacking Japanese soldiers

This carrier launched the fighters that scored the first and last kills on North Vietnamese MiGs

By Miguel Ortiz

That time World War II vets violently overthrew corrupt politicians in Tennessee

One of America’s legendary small arms was designed by a convict

By Blake Stilwell

This is why the Soviet Union was one of the most evil governments ever created

America wanted to stop Earth’s rotation during Cold War

3 dirty tricks Canada used to gain control of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812

The Civil War created ‘soldiers disease’ – a morphine addiction problem among veterans

Why the Dresden firebombing campaign was a PR nightmare during WWII