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Rafael Peralta Navy Cross

The controversial Marine grenade hero of Fallujah that Washington still argues about

By Stephen Ruiz

Battle of the Somme

After more than 100 years, World War I battlefields are uninhabitable

By James Elphick

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Here’s what communication back home looked like during World War II

By Bethaney Phillips

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

Two veterans shaped the UFO phenomenon from a joke into real federal policy

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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7 unbelievable secret spy weapons of the Cold War

Amos Chapple, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Revolutionary War

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

By Daniel Tobias Flint

LBJ Dwight Johnson Medal of Honor ceremony

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

By Stephen Ruiz

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5 terrifying things US troops faced in Vietnam’s jungles

By Blake Stilwell

Henry J.F. Miller

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

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Navy Combat Demolition Unit reenactment

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

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Aleutian Islands

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

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Why cats were the perfect companions in the trenches of WWI

Why cats were the perfect companions in the trenches of WWI

By Eric Milzarski

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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

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

By Blake Stilwell

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

By Daniel Tobias Flint

ITALY - APRIL 01: World War Ii, Liberation Of Milan On April 1945 (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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

By Gina Napoletano

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The 1952 UFO Washington sighting that upended decades of denial

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Santa Claus poses in front of multinational aircraft during Operation Christmas Drop 2024 at Andersen Air Force, Guam, Dec. 14, 2024. Events like OCD 2024 allow participating nations an opportunity to provide assistance to remote populations while also offering the ability to maintain preparedness for real-world emergencies. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Adasha Williams)

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

By Adam Gramegna

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The bittersweet story behind the Christmas Truce of 1914

By Brittany Sulc