War History (Page 4)

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

Latest in War History

Operation Tapeworm: How the US Army’s most elite hunted down Saddam’s sons

By Friedrich Seiltgen

The WWII bombardier whose family spent 12 years bringing him home from the ocean floor

By Stephen Ruiz

This is what a broom tied to a mast means in the US Navy

8 of the most terrifying Vietnam War booby traps

By Blake Stilwell

What John Glenn did to save his famous wingman’s life in Korea

By Stephen Ruiz

‘The Iron Major’: James Capers Jr.’s long road to the Medal of Honor

By Daniel Tobias Flint

A sailor painted a 42-foot mural inside an aircraft carrier. The colors are still vivid 3 miles underwater, 80 years later.

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How John Brown’s raid on the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry made the Civil War inevitable

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ initiative started Iran’s nuclear program

By Stephen Ruiz

How the Marine Corps’ oldest division survived at Chosin Reservoir

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

The anonymous plot to oust George Washington as commander-in-chief

By Daniel Tobias Flint

This plane survived Pearl Harbor and struck back at Midway

By Miguel Ortiz

The Allies refused to buy American surplus after WWII so US troops pushed it into the ocean

By Bethaney Phillips

The real story of Jane Fonda and the Vietnam vets who hate her

By Blake Stilwell

How a sailor remembered 256 prisoners of war through song

By Blake Stilwell

How a soldier’s homemade US flag made it from a WWII POW camp to the Smithsonian

By Stephen Ruiz

The shortest soldier in American history was a Green Beret who fought in Vietnam

By Blake Stilwell

The highest ranking US military officer in World War II isn’t who you think

By Blake Stilwell

This WWII aviation program was more expensive than the Manhattan Project

By Miguel Ortiz

That time MacArthur promised to capture a hill or die on it

How I teach the rise of dictators and America’s uneasy road to World War II

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Patton’s famous speech was way more vulgar than the one in the movie

By Blake Stilwell

This Marine survived the Bataan Death March, a ship sinking, and an atomic bomb

By Stephen Ruiz

How the Seven Days Battles lengthened the Civil War by 2 years

Revolutionary War

Baron von Steuben and the birth of US Army discipline

By Daniel Tobias Flint

A World War II POW who defied Nazis to protect Jewish soldiers will receive the Medal of Honor

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Benedict Arnold and the most famous betrayal in American history

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Captain America and the boldest punch in American pop culture

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Curtis LeMay: World War II bomber, cold warrior, and judo champion

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Revolutionary War uniforms and the birth of an American army

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The mathematician who saved hundreds of flight crews during World War II

President Lincoln personally led a recon mission during the Civil War

By Daniel Tobias Flint

What the Soviet Union thought as it watched Operation Desert Storm

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Marquis de Lafayette: Washington’s indispensable French commander

By Daniel Tobias Flint

‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ and America’s obsession with the Atomic Age

By Daniel Tobias Flint

He fought seven MiGs and kept it secret—70 years later, he’s getting the Medal of Honor

By Miguel Ortiz

Revolutionary War

The original US Navy was an armada of American rebels and privateers

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

How Henry Knox became the artillery genius of the Revolutionary War

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Soldier killed protecting a Polish officer in Afghanistan will receive Medal of Honor

By Gina Napoletano

How a Frenchman made a World War I artillery shell disappear

By Adam Gramegna

This was the only mutiny on an American ship in the past 100 years

By Blake Stilwell

Veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness won a 30-year war for recognition

By Adam Gramegna

12 strange and surprising facts about the Civil War

By Blake Stilwell

The John Frum Movement and World War II ‘cargo cults’

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How the Navy once mistook Venus for a Japanese war balloon

By Bethaney Phillips

Revolutionary War

The Revolutionary War battle that forced Americans to choose sides

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Your battle buddy was originally supposed to check your feet in the trenches of World War I

By Blake Stilwell

These crusader knights answered the call to fight World War I

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Nathanael Greene: The Revolutionary War’s most underrated leader

By Daniel Tobias Flint

That time an entire battle stopped to watch two soldiers in a fistfight

By Blake Stilwell

What happened after the TSA confiscated a World War II hero’s Medal of Honor

By Daniel Tobias Flint

These Air Force ‘Rods from God’ could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon

By Blake Stilwell

World War II alliances fueled the resurgence of the post-war American mafia

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

How a plain-language pamphlet created America’s revolutionary mindset

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

The Raid on Richmond was Benedict Arnold’s best battle as a British general

By Blake Stilwell

The reason Gen. George Patton is buried in Luxembourg

By Miguel Ortiz

This Olympian served under a Medal of Honor recipient during World War II

By Stephen Ruiz

The controversial Marine grenade hero of Fallujah that Washington still argues about

By Stephen Ruiz

Special Forces fought North Vietnamese tanks for the first time at Lang Vei

By Friedrich Seiltgen

After more than 100 years, World War I battlefields are uninhabitable

By James Elphick

Here’s what communication back home looked like during World War II

By Bethaney Phillips

Snoopy was much more than just a World War I flying ace

By Bethaney Phillips

Two veterans shaped the UFO phenomenon from a joke into real federal policy

By Daniel Tobias Flint

7 unbelievable secret spy weapons of the Cold War

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