War History (Page 5)

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

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Revolutionary War

Daniel Morgan’s Revolutionary War riflemen were America’s original scout snipers

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The Vietnam tank driver who ran into a burning tank to pull his friends out

By Stephen Ruiz

5 terrifying things US troops faced in Vietnam’s jungles

By Blake Stilwell

How a drunken major general almost ruined the surprise of D-Day

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Naval Combat Demolition Units and the sailors who made D-Day possible

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Japan’s invasion of Alaska and the only World War II land campaign on American soil

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How to get a name rubbing from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

By Gina Napoletano

Why cats were the perfect companions in the trenches of World War I

By Eric Milzarski

This Civil War veteran nearly died while exploring the Arctic

By Stephen Ruiz

Aldrich Ames, the Cold War’s deadliest CIA mole, completes life sentence

By Blake Stilwell

How female spies changed the course of the Civil War

By Bethaney Phillips

The Dutch wait years to adopt World War II graves in Netherlands American Cemetery

By Blake Stilwell

The American mafia teamed up with the Navy to get even with Mussolini

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Italian women quietly enabled a new front for the Allies in World War II

By Gina Napoletano

The Mk-19 grenade launcher and how it helped shape the War on Terror

By Adam Gramegna

The 1952 UFO Washington sighting that upended decades of denial

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The heroism and legacy of US military chaplains in combat

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How a B-29 bomber crew accidentally created an Air Force holiday

By Adam Gramegna

The real-life military experiment that inspired ‘Stranger Things’

By Sarah Sicard

The bittersweet story behind the Christmas Truce of 1914

By Brittany Sulc

America’s first all-Black paratrooper unit protected American civilians during World War II

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How Mafia boss Lucky Luciano joined World War II from his prison cell

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Afghanistan War

4 Royal Marines strapped themselves to attack helicopters and rode into a Taliban compound

‘MAS*H’ made television history while keeping Korean War history alive

By Daniel Tobias Flint

When Patton met MacArthur in the mud of St. Mihiel

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The 8 reincarnations of General George S. Patton

By Blake Stilwell

3 Stories from the Battle of the Bulge you won’t see in ‘Band of Brothers’

By Adam Gramegna

Nazi sabotage teams were captured infiltrating the US during World War II

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The college football team who became first responders at Pearl Harbor

By Miguel Ortiz

These pilots fought back during the attack on Pearl Harbor

By Miguel Ortiz

Why the lessons from the attack on Pearl Harbor still matter today

By Clay Beyersdorfer

How shoddy email practices led to the convictions in the Iran-Contra Affair

‘Operation Underworld’ was a secret wartime pact no one saw coming

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The ‘One Man Air Force’ took on dozens of enemy fighters even after his guns ran dry

By Friedrich Seiltgen

‘Ramage’s Rampage’ saw a World War II sub sink 5 ships in 40 minutes

Thanksgiving in wartime meant rationing, sacrifice, and resilient American meals

By Daniel Tobias Flint

9 foods you didn’t know came from wartime rationing

By Bethaney Phillips

The ‘Chopper Popper’ scored the A-10’s first air-to-air kill against an Iraqi helicopter

By Blake Stilwell

Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are safe, but Chernobyl isn’t

By Today I Found Out

How military spouses were targeted by propaganda during World War II

By Bethaney Phillips

This Intrepid pilot went from zero to ace in 13 minutes

These healers changed soldiers’ fates. Here’s how the war changed them.

By Alyssa Blakemore

5 ways World War II rationing changed the ways Americans cook and eat

By Bethaney Phillips

100-year-old Marine reunited with tank he drove on Iwo Jima

By Miguel Ortiz

This Japanese fusion dish exists only because of the US military

Harriet Tubman was America’s first unconventional warfare commander

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Afghanistan War

The War on Terror’s iconic FN SCAR is dead

By Miguel Ortiz

The ‘Simple Sabotage Field Manual’ will make you question your coworkers’ loyalties

By Blake Stilwell

How trick-or-treating worked during World War II sugar rationing

By Bethaney Phillips

How Halloween changed while the United States was at war

By Bethaney Phillips

6 unappetizing ration recipes from World War II that you might actually like

By Bethaney Phillips

The first ‘walkie-talkie’ saved thousands of Allied lives

The Fritz X radio-controlled glide bomb could punch through 28 inches of armor

By Friedrich Seiltgen

DNA science and public databases offer a new way to identify soldiers’ remains

This is how an AK-47 works

By Adam Gramegna

A Jewish ballerina started a riot while fighting for her life at Auschwitz

By Gina Napoletano

Afghanistan War

Operation Red Wings through the eyes of the Night Stalkers

Joshua Skovlund Coffee Or Die

The Gun Trucks of Vietnam: How US soldiers transformed cargo vehicles into fighting machines

Matt Fratus Coffee Or Die

‘Japan’s Pearl Harbor’ was the original target for US nukes

The CIA secretly created an undetectable ‘heart attack gun’

By Blake Stilwell

A secret Cold War unit was the basis for today’s special operations

By Blake Stilwell

The top US fighter ace of World War II Europe was almost rejected as a pilot twice

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Some US troops reportedly saw Bigfoot in Vietnam

By Blake Stilwell

US troops pretended to be vampires and ghosts to scare the hell out of communists