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Revolutionary War

More Americans died on one British prison ship than in most Revolutionary War battles

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

George Washington’s secret spy code name was Agent 711

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Neil Armstrong Korea

That time Neil Armstrong survived ejecting from his fighter jet in Korea

By Stephen Ruiz

Medal of Honor recipient Beauford Anderson

A Medal of Honor recipient used a dud enemy mortar to save US troops during WWII

By Stephen Ruiz

funeral loading a casket into a hearse civil war funeral industry

How the Civil War created the modern American funeral industry

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Korean War paratrooper

The combat jumps of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team in Korea

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Bob Feller military service throws to Joe DiMaggio during his Apr. 30, 1946 no-hitter at Yankee Stadium. (Hugh Broderick/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Decorated Navy vet Bob Feller is the only MLB pitcher to throw an Opening Day no-hitter

By Stephen Ruiz

An army unit deployed remembering RED friday

RED Friday returns as combat deployments ramp up

By Adam Gramegna

Gremlin Special survivors

How the daring rescue of 3 Army soldiers after a WWII plane crash in ‘Shangri-La’ unfolded

By Friedrich Seiltgen

First Battle of Bull Run

Why the Union wore blue and the Confederacy gray during the Civil War

Flame erupts from a building hit with a TOW missile launched by soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq. Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in the battle as they resisted Coalition forces. (U.S. Army/Spc. Robert Woodward)

Operation Tapeworm: How the US Army’s most elite hunted down Saddam’s sons

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Anglo-Zanzibar War

The world’s shortest war lasted an incredibly brief 38 minutes

By Stephen Ruiz

World War II squadron

The WWII bombardier whose family spent 12 years bringing him home from the ocean floor

By Stephen Ruiz

This is what a broom tied to a mast means in the US Navy

This is what a broom tied to a mast means in the US Navy

Vietnam war booby traps training poster

8 of the most terrifying Vietnam War booby traps

By Blake Stilwell

John Glenn Ted Williams

What John Glenn did to save his famous wingman’s life in Korea

By Stephen Ruiz

john brown tragic prelude civil war

How John Brown’s raid on the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry made the Civil War inevitable

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Atoms for Peace

How Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ program started Iran’s nuclear program

By Stephen Ruiz

How the Marine Corps’ oldest division survived at Chosin Reservoir

By Stephen Ruiz

washington at valley forge during the conway cabal

Revolutionary War

The anonymous plot to oust George Washington as commander-in-chief

By Daniel Tobias Flint