War History (Page 54)

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

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This was the most devastating submarine attack in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is how German submarines changed the world during World War I

By Harold C. Hutchison

7 life lessons we learned from the grunts in ‘Platoon’

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This was the toughest fight in the bloodiest WW2 battle of the Pacific

By James Elphick

Here’s what inspired the invention of the machine gun

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The only Native American general in the Civil War wore gray

By Harold C. Hutchison

This WWII commander avenged his fallen shipmates

By Harold C. Hutchison

How a deadly insurgent sniper in Iraq taunted his pursuers

By WATM Partners

Medal of Honor recipient and former POW dies at 85

That time drunk samurai didn’t realize they were under attack

These kids volunteered to fight in the trenches in WWI

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This is the disease Hitler hid from the public for years

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This was the youngest soldier wounded in the Civil War

This knife-wielding Gurkha rushed four enemy foxholes and a bunker to save his unit

By Blake Stilwell

This is the legendary Nazi general who turned on Hitler

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This is how the Germans beat the British in one of the biggest naval battles of WWI

Here’s how ‘Taps’ got its name

By Tim Kirkpatrick

These Japanese fire balloons were the grandaddies of the ICBM

By Harold C. Hutchison

These are the creepy fake towns used for 1950s nuclear tests

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This Soviet WWII movie used real bullets instead of blanks

By Blake Stilwell

This is how you move a World War I railway howitzer to a museum

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is why German submarines attacked civilian vessels during World War I

By Harold C. Hutchison

How Germany deployed the first weapon of mass destruction

This is how the ‘Molotov Cocktail’ got its name

That time the Russians rammed US Navy ships in the Black Sea

By Blake Stilwell

28 rarely seen photos from the Vietnam War

This lone Gurkha rifleman stopped three Japanese tanks in their tracks

By Blake Stilwell

6 legends of the Army Reserve

Japan’s greatest aircraft carrier was sank by a tiny sub

This Air Force jet landed itself after the pilot ejected

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This video shows rare footage from an actual Vietcong ambush

The reason Japanese battleships dwarfed American ships during WWII

The reason the British military formed the Special Air Service

5 countries that tried to shoot down the SR-71 Blackbird (and failed)

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This legendary pilot fought to his last bullet after being shot down

This Spitfire flaw gave the Nazis an edge in aerial dogfights

By Harold C. Hutchison

This man in Georgia restores WWII airplane ball turrets in his garage

This aging Russian plane was the Tomahawk strike’s target

By Harold C. Hutchison

This massive World War II air offensive had an adorable name

Revolutionary War

Maryland’s ‘Immortal 400’ saved the entire American Revolution

By Blake Stilwell

This pilot was saved when the enemy shot him in the bullet

This female amputee led French commandos behind Nazi lines

The only time the Soviet Union officially fought the US was in brutal air combat

By Blake Stilwell

Afghanistan War

Quadruple amputee Travis Mills wows the crowd with appearance on ‘Ellen’ show

These Combat Tracker teams were America’s secret weapon in Vietnam

By James Elphick

What would happen if modern Marines conducted the Iwo Jima landings

The crippled USS Yorktown traded its life for victory at Midway

What would happen if the OSS fought the CIA’s Special Activities Division

4 planes the Americans borrowed from Britain during World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

How to honor Vietnam veterans

By WATM Partners

US to remain in Iraq for ‘years to come’

By Business Insider

This Air Force EOD tech spent 20 hours clearing IEDs under fire

By Harold C. Hutchison

An Army medic was just returned to the US from the Chosin Reservoir

By Blake Stilwell

‘Ensign Dilbert’ taught pilots to not accidentally kill their friends

This Spitfire shot down near Dunkirk just flew again

‘Irish Brigades’ have fought around the world for hundreds of years

Revolutionary War

American rebels returned this British general’s dog after a crushing defeat

By Christian Lowe

9 reasons why Texas hero Sam Houston might be the most awesome governor ever

By Blake Stilwell

This World War I battle footage lets you go ‘over the top’

These rebels fought Soviet tanks with dish soap and jam

By Christian Lowe

This is how hedgerows made the invasion of Normandy a living hell

‘The White Rose of Stalingrad’ was a female pilot who terrorized the Nazis

By Blake Stilwell

This is why every British armored vehicle has tea-making gear

By Blake Stilwell

This is why the Allies’ secret DD tank failed on D-Day

By Harold C. Hutchison