War History (Page 36)

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

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This is what ICBM crews will do after a missile launch

By Blake Stilwell

This is how Robert E. Lee’s house became Arlington National Cemetery

By Blake Stilwell

Afghanistan War

4 reasons why you shouldn’t give candy to kids while on patrol

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This was the invasion of France you didn’t hear about

By Harold C. Hutchison

This little-known disaster was the first to be called the ‘Second Pearl Harbor’

How this World War I soldier earned the Medal of Honor in a mustard gas attack

By Blake Stilwell

The first Medal of Honor in modern Army aviation history came in Vietnam

Afghanistan War

President Bush calls Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal ‘unbelievably bad’

Meet the intelligence officer who urged Nimitz to kill Yamamoto

By Harold C. Hutchison

How the CIA stole a secret Soviet satellite during the Space Race

The incredible stand of the Irish Army in the Congo

By Blake Stilwell

There was a special word for Confederates who joined the US Army

By Blake Stilwell

This was the fastest manned aircraft ever

By Blake Stilwell

This insane law would force everyone who wanted a war to go fight it

By Blake Stilwell

Afghanistan War

That time British Intelligence hacked al-Qaeda just to mess with them

By Blake Stilwell

Texas Tower 4 was a Cold War radar outpost that vanished in a winter storm

Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. President to hold a patent

By Miguel Ortiz

Before he wrote children’s books, Roald Dahl was a menace to Axis forces in the sky

By Miguel Ortiz

The 5 strangest military mission names from the Iraq War

By Jessica Evans

Coke exists thanks to this wounded warrior from Civil War

This top secret Green Beret unit quietly won the Cold War

This bomber made the B-52 look puny

By Harold C. Hutchison

This was one of the stealthiest aircraft ever flown by the US military

Can you pass the US citizenship test?

By Zackry Colston

Operation Sea Lion: the Nazi plan to invade Great Britain

Why Germany was always the underdog in World War II

This app lets you see the destructive power of nukes on your hometown

By Blake Stilwell

Why the Soviet Union wanted to nuke this hot dog stand

By Blake Stilwell

Watch award-winning actor Bryan Cranston narrate the D-Day landings

By Blake Stilwell

This dad asked about his son, and the Bismarck was doomed

Afghanistan War

A Vietnam veteran re-enlisted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Blake Stilwell

Battleships helped pull off the biggest military deception of Desert Storm

By Blake Stilwell

This Army wife’s wedding dress is made of the parachute that saved her husband

By Blake Stilwell

6 of the most ballsy military tactics

The Baghdad Underground Railroad built an escape for Iraqi interpreters. It was just the beginning.

By Tessa Robinson

That time Patton denied the guy who saved his life in WWI

By Blake Stilwell

The crazy story of the only underwater sub battle in history

How the Allies used math to save bomber crews during WWII

By Alex Hollings

6 things you didn’t know about Operation Market Garden

By Blake Stilwell

This is how missing or captured troops get promoted

By Eric Milzarski

This proposed nuke would’ve destroyed a continent

The British re-cut Nazi propaganda to make these soldiers dance

Watch how sand from Omaha Beach brightens veterans’ tombstones

By Shannon Corbeil

Afghanistan War

This is what happened when the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan

This convoy system staffed mostly by African Americans kept the invasion of Europe rolling

By Miguel Ortiz

America’s oldest living general turned 107 in 2021

The youngest Special Forces captain in Vietnam was a war hero

4 times the US military won by tricking the enemy

By Paul Szoldra

This Soviet pilot stole the plane of a Nazi pilot who landed to try and kill him

By Blake Stilwell

This hard-drinking salty Coast Guard sea dog was banned from Greenland

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the only woman to fly a solo space mission

By Shannon Corbeil

This video shows how ‘Full Metal Jacket’ was made

By Orvelin Valle

FOX host asks Americans on D-Day: Are you living a life worthy of our fallen?

By Jessica Manfre

The daring sabotage raid that kept Nazis from getting The Bomb

By Blake Stilwell

The underground work of Belle Boyd and how she changed the Civil War

By Bethaney Phillips

This ‘pirate’ was the unsung hero of British carrier operations during the Cold War

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Corpsman saved his Marines despite being shot 4 times

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Watch this WWII commando veteran explain how to spot a sniper

By Blake Stilwell

How D-Day would go down today

By Harold C. Hutchison

This was General Sherman’s real method of clearing minefields

By Blake Stilwell

These are the only 2 subs that sank enemy ships in combat since 1945

By Harold C. Hutchison

Afghanistan War

The Biden Administration is set to release three Guantanamo Bay detainees

The 1st Marine War Dog Platoon were the ‘goodest bois’ of WWII

By Miguel Ortiz

Coffee alternatives that were used during the Civil War

By Bethaney Phillips