War History (Page 55)

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

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

By Harold C. Hutchison

Dog paratroopers jumped into combat on D-Day

This Medal of Honor recipient led an attack with grenades, bayonets, and an E-tool

This is how to fire a Civil War cannon, step-by-step

By Harold C. Hutchison

This was the world’s longest-serving modern military rifle in active service

By Blake Stilwell

America’s Patton tanks saw combat from Korea to Desert Storm

By James Elphick

France sent thousands of thank you gifts to the US after WWII

By Blake Stilwell

All about the chemical agent VX that allegedly killed Kim Jong Nam

By Harold C. Hutchison

Unexploded German WWII bomb found in British port

By Harold C. Hutchison

America’s first-ever tank unit saw heavy combat in World War I

3 heroes who gave all for their friends at Saipan

By James Elphick

These two ironclad ships almost allowed the South to win the Civil War

This is why Bunker Buster bombs are made from spent howitzer barrels

By Blake Stilwell

Meet the World War I legend ‘Black Swallow of Death’

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time the CIA shot down a bomber with an AK-47

Russian spy ship near Navy bases on East Coast

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is the last tank airborne units jumped into combat

That time an American cruise missile hit the wrong continent

By Harold C. Hutchison

Afghanistan War

General claims 60,000 ISIS fighters have been killed

By Business Insider

These are the most terrifying Vietnam War booby traps

This is the latest on the sunken World War II graveyards in the Java Sea

By Harold C. Hutchison

The ‘Hatchet Brigade’ rode into battle with some awesome blades

3 systems America scrapped after its mid-range nuke agreement with the USSR

By Harold C. Hutchison

The brazen origins of the 1st Special Service Force

By James Elphick

“Band of Brothers” veteran Ed Tipper dies

By Harold C. Hutchison

This airman saved his crew after their plane was hit with a mortar

Army Legend Hal Moore Dies at 94

By Harold C. Hutchison

This soldier fought off a German tank with his pistol

By James Elphick

How the tough-as-nails OV-10 Bronco landed on a carrier

By Christian Lowe

This was the badass predecessor to the AC-130 Spooky gunship

This Blackwater shootout in Baghdad might not have gone down like the prosecution claimed

By Harold C. Hutchison

Oldest Navy Pearl Harbor salvage diver dies

By Harold C. Hutchison

It’s the end of the road for the USS Enterprise

By Harold C. Hutchison

This makeshift armored vehicle is actually an ISIS suicide bomb truck

These 6 heroes of Desert Storm may warrant medal upgrades

By Harold C. Hutchison

Patton once sent 300 men to rescue his son-in-law from a Nazi prison

By Blake Stilwell

This Confederate regiment was nearly wiped out in minutes

That sub commander who sank a hospital ship and got promoted

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time Civil War soldiers stopped fighting and played music for one another

This Army Air Corps pilot stole a Nazi plane to escape from a POW camp

This is how the Pentagon had over 120,000 extra Purple Heart medals

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time James Howard took on 30 German fighters

By James Elphick

Nazi Germany tried to counterfeit its way to victory

EFOGM — that anti-tank missile with a 9-mile reach

By Harold C. Hutchison

Who would win a dogfight between a Flogger and a Phantom?

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time 621 Brits rammed a suicide ship into a Nazi fortress

NATO is hunting for this Russian submarine in the Med

By Harold C. Hutchison

This one-armed Gurkha fought off 200 Japanese soldiers with a bolt-action rifle

See the intense Navy deck logs from the Pearl Harbor attack

This sneaky sub attack almost changed the outcome of Pearl Harbor

By Orvelin Valle

12 leadership lessons in the words of Robert E. Lee

By Blake Stilwell

This is the real, hard-luck story of SEAL platoon X-Ray

By Blake Stilwell

The M79 isn’t perfect, but we love it anyway

What you need to know about the real World War II anti-tank ‘sticky bomb’

War-hardened vet: How accepting death made me a better soldier

By Orvelin Valle

This Russian war widow bought a tank to fight in World War II

This is what happens to every state in a modern American Civil War

By Orvelin Valle

Someone is desecrating World War II graveyards off the Indonesian coast

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is how an outnumbered Navy hero earned the Medal of Honor for protecting Guadalcanal

By Harold C. Hutchison

How World War I soldiers celebrated the Armistice

How the soldiers of Outpost Harry decimated an entire Chinese Division

By James Elphick

This shows why the battle for Fallujah is so important to Marine Corps history

By Christian Lowe

President Trump might want to look at these 5 examples before he bombs the sh– out of ISIS

By Harold C. Hutchison

The first time the US tested an EMP weapon was a doozy