War History (Page 50)

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

Latest in War History

4 outstanding things you didn’t know about Sgt. York

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This Greyhound packed some serious firepower

By Harold C. Hutchison

Here is how the Allies planned to evacuate wounded before D-Day

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is the real Sgt. Pepper from the Beatles album cover

By Blake Stilwell

This Civil War veteran served all the way through World War I

By Blake Stilwell

How the Thud dominated the enemy in the air and on land

By Harold C. Hutchison

Here’s how the angled deck made carriers deadlier

By Harold C. Hutchison

Landing planes on carriers in World War II took a lot of help

By Harold C. Hutchison

How Japan was suckered into revealing Midway was a target

By Harold C. Hutchison

Afghanistan War

How Prince Harry’s military career makes him a hardcore noble

By Eric Milzarski

Watch a young Chuck Yeager test fly a stolen MiG-15

By Harold C. Hutchison

Revolutionary War

The earliest-born American to be photographed is also a veteran

By Blake Stilwell

The United States used combat hovercraft to kick butt in Vietnam

By Harold C. Hutchison

‘Dr. Death’ discovered how to use blood from corpses in wounded troops

By Blake Stilwell

America’s oldest veteran gives you the secrets to life at 112

By Blake Stilwell

4 things you didn’t know about the war epic ‘Saving Private Ryan’

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This is how insanely specific WWI fighter planes had to be

By Eric Milzarski

Here’s how air crews learned to navigate in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

Here’s how America prepared for chemical warfare in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

This speedy missile gave bombers a lot of punch

By Harold C. Hutchison

This oiler saved the American carriers at Coral Sea

By Harold C. Hutchison

Bob Hope entertained the troops from WWII to Desert Storm

By Shannon Corbeil

This soldier earned the Medal of Honor while totally stoned

By Blake Stilwell

This WWII ace scored kills from every Axis country – and the US

By Blake Stilwell

How we got a pilot’s-eye view of dogfights in the Korean War

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is why some Civil War battles have two names

By Blake Stilwell

This was the most decorated American warship ever

These were the UK’s massive “earthquake bombs”

The fascinating origin of a favorite gloating phrase

Russia’s one-of-a-kind destroyer is a Cold War spinoff

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Bearcat has been unjustly overshadowed by history

By Harold C. Hutchison

How the Wildcat held the line against the Zero

By Harold C. Hutchison

5 of the craziest looking WWI helmets ever assembled

By Tim Kirkpatrick

That time unmanned rifles and mannequins tricked the enemy at Gallipoli

By Tim Kirkpatrick

6 nations that had no problems invading Russia in the winter

By Eric Milzarski

6 things you didn’t know about the M1 Abrams

By Tim Kirkpatrick

A WWII ship that killed 5 brothers when it sank was just found

By Harold C. Hutchison

What happens when you cover an enemy grenade with your kevlar

By Blake Stilwell

Watch these airborne veterans sing a paratrooper classic

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is the average gear a soldier in WW2 carried

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The Kiwi fighting man who earned two Victoria Crosses

By James Elphick

This was the ‘helicopter destroyer’ that might have been

By Harold C. Hutchison

This raid became the US Navy’s ‘most bold and daring act’

Why ‘Rooster’ was the greatest song to honor a father’s service

By Eric Milzarski

The military rescinded the only Medal of Honor awarded to a woman

By Jacqlyn Cope

The Curtiss Helldiver’s other nickname was way better

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time the Japanese tried to bomb the US using balloons

By Tim Kirkpatrick

How Marine Raiders saved the day at the Battle of Edson’s Ridge

By James Elphick

This armored vehicle sports an anti-aircraft cannon

By Harold C. Hutchison

This lone soldier saved his company by fighting 100 enemy soldiers

By Blake Stilwell

How the Air Force makes the ‘smell of victory’

By Harold C. Hutchison

Revolutionary War

Chris Kyle’s 10 most definitive American weapons of all time

Watch the TOW anti-tank missile in action in Vietnam

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Navy ship scored America’s first submarine kill of WWII

By Harold C. Hutchison

The reason Robert Mueller volunteered to fight in Vietnam

By Shannon Corbeil

Revolutionary War

This was the weapon that won the revolutionary war

This version of the F-86 Sabre was meant to kill enemy bombers

By Harold C. Hutchison

Why the Navy constantly checks on this sunken cruiser

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time Russia used children to spy on a US embassy

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This hero was so deadly, they called him ‘Black Death’

Warriors in their Own Words: A day in the life of a Vietnam War combat medic

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Afghanistan War

How Afghanistan got its bizarre panhandle

By Blake Stilwell

A WWII veteran’s son captures stories left untold in ‘My Father’s War’

By Blake Stilwell

That time the Viet Cong took out a Navy transport

By Harold C. Hutchison