War History (Page 44)

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

Latest in War History

The Merchant Marine suffered the worst losses of World War II

Why Elvis’ time in the Army scared the hell out of the communists

By Eric Milzarski

6 heroes who saved American lives on Heartbreak Ridge

This is why the infamous glider regiments quietly fizzled out of history

By Eric Milzarski

How Godzilla films were actually a metaphor for how postwar Japan saw the world

By Eric Milzarski

The bloody story behind the bells the US returned to the Philippines

By Blake Stilwell

6 games World War I soldiers played in the trenches

Hitler had no idea the Soviets were so strong before invading

By Blake Stilwell

Navy might know what sank its only major warship lost in WWI

The only successful missile attack on a US warship was an Iraqi sucker punch

By Blake Stilwell

We just missed horse day, so here’s hero Sgt. Reckless

Russia might be preparing to invade Ukraine right now

By Blake Stilwell

Autopsy of a German tank killed in World War I combat

Why names are added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

By Blake Stilwell

7 craziest ways you could fight in the World Wars

Revolutionary War

4 battles brought to you by booze

This is what the Army’s nasty ’emergency chocolate bars’ tasted like

By Eric Milzarski

The candy man who revolutionized tank design

How ‘Saving Private Ryan’ could use a sequel, but not in the way Hollywood thinks

By Eric Milzarski

Saddam thought the US was cool with an invasion of Kuwait

By Blake Stilwell

What it was like to suffer a German U-boat attack

An American is now a senior ISIS commander in Syria

By Blake Stilwell

World War II’s most decorated woman was a housewife-turned-spy

By Blake Stilwell

The man who set himself on fire to stop Russian tanks

What happened to the dead bodies after big battles in history

By Today I Found Out

This soldier was so daring even his captured enemies patted him on the back

By Blake Stilwell

This was the first tank designed for nuclear war

Hitler’s train was a rolling fortress named after America

The man who saved North Carolina from nukes speaks out

Afghanistan War

US wants Afghanistan exit after Taliban peace talks

By Business Insider

An astrologer may have helped end the Cold War

By Megan Miller

This is what those ‘metal things’ were on Normandy beaches

By Today I Found Out

The heroic four chaplains and the sinking of the USAT Dorchester

Afghanistan War

This canine prisoner of war is still held by Taliban captors

By Blake Stilwell

A Nazi rescued 200,000 Chinese civilians from a massacre

By Blake Stilwell

This soldier saved his entire crew after taking an RPG to the head

By Blake Stilwell

A US President and Soviet Chairman won a Grammy together

By Blake Stilwell

Nope, ‘God & The 3 Mistakes’ is not what happened after Pearl Harbor

The chemical weapon so deadly even the Nazis couldn’t use it

By Blake Stilwell

That time infantry captured a Nazi train filled with lingerie

Whatever happened to the military’s ‘grease gun’

By Blake Stilwell

This carrier, a veteran of the Doolittle Raid, was just rediscovered after 76 years

See how an individual scout survived the massacre at Little Bighorn

The man who took 42 Nazis captive with a longsword

That time the Royal Navy welded together a ‘Frankenship’

By Blake Stilwell

These were the Army plans to conquer Japan

This soldier waited 150 years to receive the Medal of Honor

By Blake Stilwell

The sailor from the iconic V-J Day in Times Square picture has died

Revolutionary War

This is the drill book America used before the ‘Blue Book’

The real reason top mobsters didn’t fight World War II

By Blake Stilwell

This Nazi officer risked his life to save an American soldier

By Blake Stilwell

This airborne sergeant re-enacts World War I

This is why North Korea’s dictator travels by train

By Blake Stilwell

Afghanistan War

The Taliban have special forces and the tech to match it

By Blake Stilwell

The British trained ex-slaves to fight the US in the War of 1812

By Blake Stilwell

Their first battle: Patton leads America’s first car attack

Britain planned a fake invasion of Norway in WWII

This is the infantryman posthumously receiving the MoH

Hippies tried to levitate the Pentagon to end the Vietnam War

By Blake Stilwell

This battle in North Africa was Germany’s Dunkirk miracle

The stunning way Andrew Jackson prevented a mass desertion

WWII vet surprised with 50,000 birthday cards

By Zackry Colston

That time a famous general was arrested as enemy royalty

A massive Nazi wolfpack slaughtered a convoy for 7 days