War History (Page 31)

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

Latest in War History

One of Disney’s most-loved characters came to be a leader of Marines

By Blake Stilwell

How the US military perfected GPS technology for civilians

Union soldiers from Alabama protected General Sherman as he burned down the South

Watch what happens when these guys fire this beast of a rifle

By Orvelin Valle

5 reasons Route Irish was the most nerve-racking road in Iraq

By Blake Stilwell

You have to see the tombstones in this Soviet military cemetery

By Blake Stilwell

7 secret weapons Allied soldiers would’ve faced while invading Japan

How the election of 1876 was settled with a compromise

By Bethaney Phillips

This Revolutionary War battle was fought in lard with swords

By Blake Stilwell

Did the Soviets leave dead cosmonauts in orbit?

By Alex Hollings

Top 5 weird Vietnam era nicknames that would have gotten you in trouble

These are the clean cut differences between an atomic and hydrogen bomb

How one commander tried to get his men to leak D-Day plans

By Blake Stilwell

Check out the awesome planning documents for D-Day

5 things that surprised the German army on D-Day

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the 4 heroes who earned Medals of Honor for heroism on D-Day

One man dumped most of the combat footage of D-Day into the English Channel

By Blake Stilwell

‘The Red Ball Express’ kept the Allies supplied and armed after the D-Day breakout

Why the F-105 wasn’t as effective in Vietnam as it should have been

This was Russia’s plan to defeat NATO in the first week of World War III

5 other WWII battles that kicked off the war in the Pacific

By James Elphick

British troops launched a ‘proper angry’ bayonet charge during the Iraq War

By Blake Stilwell

This entire WWII operation was based on deception

By Bethaney Phillips

This is the story of the Civil War’s only double-barrel cannon

By Blake Stilwell

This is how the poppy became a symbol for fallen troops

By Eric Milzarski

This is how Eddie Rickenbacker earned 7 service crosses and the Medal of Honor

By James Elphick

That time an Army Air Corps bomber crashed into the Empire State Building

By Blake Stilwell

This is the real story behind the 1969 ‘Soccer War’

By Harold C. Hutchison

Motorcycle soldiers used to rush parts to tanks under fire

This famous pilot flew 50 combat missions as a civilian

The stunning combat history of the Tuskegee Airmen

This bridge is one of the most underrated engineering feats of WWII

By Tim Kirkpatrick

5 of the dumbest reasons people went to war

By Shannon Corbeil

The Army Air Corps once bombed Oklahoma

By Blake Stilwell

This is what would happen if German and British tanks did battle today

By Harold C. Hutchison

How this paratrooper got his trench knife back after 70 years

By Blake Stilwell

This is how Japan went from enemy to ally of the US

The insane life of this Holocaust survivor and Special Forces veteran

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Top 5 hobbies the founding fathers enjoyed that you didn’t know about

The artillery mission that made Truman a criminal and hero

Vietnamese farmers have been using US fuel tanks as boats for 50 years

The British and Germans built these deadly hollowed-out trees in WWI

By Christian Lowe

M202 FLASH: The Army’s man-portable, four-barrel rocket launcher

By Harold C. Hutchison

This moving company moved a captured U-boat across Lake Shore Drive

By Miguel Ortiz

This presidential nominee’s campaign was tanked by a tank

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Special Forces soldier gave his life to save his allies

Communist countries fought a proxy war against each other in Africa

This diet fueled both sides during the American Civil War

6 important things you need to learn before World War III

Revolutionary War

The ‘Virginia Hercules’ was the one-man army of the American Revolution

This is how two WWII veterans changed baseball forever

By Eric Milzarski

Afghanistan War

This sailor earned a Bronze Star for leading a clandestine team that rescued 961 people in Afghanistan

By Miguel Ortiz

This American tractor became the world’s first-ever tank

This Navy SEAL unit was ‘the most hard luck platoon’ to fight in Vietnam

By Blake Stilwell

That time this Navy squadron bombed North Vietnam with a toilet

By Blake Stilwell

Did you know this man is the only American to be hanged for treason?

American airmen were rescued by cannibal headhunters during World War II

Afghanistan War

These Army Rangers killed 25 enemies and saved their men in a 6-hour firefight

These heroes used planes as missiles years before the Kamikazes

This military unit has been guarding the Pope without a break for over 500 years

By Stephen Carlson

How Jimmy Doolittle nearly revealed the biggest American secret of WWII

By Harold C. Hutchison

How a plain old Cessna became a military legend

By Harold C. Hutchison

How Finland almost stopped a massive Soviet invasion in 1940

9 American heroes who received France’s Legion of Honor

By Blake Stilwell