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Million Dollar Point WWII Dump Site Vanuatu.

The Allies refused to buy American surplus after WWII so US troops pushed it into the ocean

By Bethaney Phillips

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The real story of Jane Fonda and the Vietnam vets who hate her

By Blake Stilwell

Vietnam War Hanoi Hilton

How a sailor remembered 256 prisoners of war through song

By Blake Stilwell

Handmade U.S. flag

How a soldier’s homemade US flag made it from a WWII POW camp to the Smithsonian

By Stephen Ruiz

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The shortest soldier in American history was a Green Beret who fought in Vietnam

By Blake Stilwell

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The highest ranking US military officer in World War II isn’t who you think

By Blake Stilwell

B-29 Superfortress bomber

This WWII aviation program was more expensive than the Manhattan Project

By Miguel Ortiz

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That time MacArthur promised to capture a hill or die on it

USS Arizona Pearl Harbor

How I teach the rise of dictators and America’s uneasy road to World War II

By Daniel Tobias Flint

George C. Scott's delivery in "Patton" was pretty good, but it apparently paled in comparison to Patton's real pre-battle speech.

Patton’s famous speech was way more vulgar than the one in the movie

By Blake Stilwell

World War II bombing of Nagasaki

This Marine survived the Bataan Death March, a ship sinking, and an atomic bomb

By Stephen Ruiz

Battle of White Oak Swamp Bridge

How the Seven Days Battles lengthened the Civil War by 2 years

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Revolutionary War

Baron von Steuben and the birth of US Army discipline

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Benedict Arnold

Revolutionary War

Benedict Arnold and the most famous betrayal in American history

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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Curtis LeMay: World War II bomber, cold warrior, and judo champion

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Revolutionary War uniforms and the birth of an American army

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The mathematician who saved hundreds of flight crews during World War II

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President Lincoln personally led a recon mission during the Civil War

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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What the Soviet Union thought as it watched Operation Desert Storm

By Blake Stilwell

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Revolutionary War

The original US Navy was an armada of American rebels and privateers

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Revolutionary War

How Henry Knox became the artillery genius of the Revolutionary War

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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How a Frenchman made a World War I artillery shell disappear

By Adam Gramegna

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This was the only mutiny on an American ship in the past 100 years

By Blake Stilwell

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Veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness won a 30-year war for recognition

By Adam Gramegna

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12 strange and surprising facts about the Civil War

By Blake Stilwell

Joe Foss Guadalcanal

This Medal of Honor recipient came up with the idea for the Super Bowl

By Stephen Ruiz

John Frum Movement

The John Frum Movement and World War II ‘cargo cults’

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Japanese balloon bomb

How the Navy once mistook Venus for a Japanese war balloon

By Bethaney Phillips

Burning of Norfolk

Revolutionary War

The Revolutionary War battle that forced Americans to choose sides

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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These crusader knights answered the call to fight World War I

By Blake Stilwell

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That time an entire battle stopped to watch two soldiers in a fistfight

By Blake Stilwell

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World War II alliances fueled the resurgence of the post-war American mafia

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Thomas Paine "Common Sense"

Revolutionary War

How a plain-language pamphlet created America’s revolutionary mindset

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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Revolutionary War

The Raid on Richmond was Benedict Arnold’s best battle as a British general

By Blake Stilwell

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The reason Gen. George Patton is buried in Luxembourg

By Miguel Ortiz

Olympian Charley Paddock

This Olympian served under a Medal of Honor recipient during World War II

By Stephen Ruiz

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

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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

Triple Nickles: A C-47 carries parachutists of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion to the scene of a remote fire in Wallowa forest, Oregon. (National Archives)

America’s first all-Black paratrooper unit protected American civilians during World War II

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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Afghanistan War

4 Royal Marines strapped themselves to attack helicopters and rode into a Taliban compound

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‘MAS*H’ made television history while keeping Korean War history alive

By Daniel Tobias Flint

National Guard Soldiers of the 165th Infantry (formerly the 69th Regiment, New York National Guard) prepare to move forward with weapons at the ready during an attack at Landres-et-St. Georges in October 1918. The 165th Infantry fought as part of the 42nd “Rainbow” Division during St. Mihiel in September and Meuse-Argonne in October, part of the American Expeditionary Force 100 days offensive that brought an end to World War I.

When Patton met MacArthur in the mud of St. Mihiel

By Daniel Tobias Flint

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3 Stories from the Battle of the Bulge you won’t see in ‘Band of Brothers’

By Adam Gramegna

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Nazi sabotage teams were captured infiltrating the US during World War II

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Five men in military uniforms and caps stand together in front of an aircraft. They appear to be airmen, wearing light-colored shirts with insignia and dark belts, with some having pilot wings on their chests. The photo is black and white, suggesting it is historical.

These pilots fought back during the attack on Pearl Harbor

By Miguel Ortiz

james howard one man air force

The ‘One Man Air Force’ took on dozens of enemy fighters even after his guns ran dry

By Friedrich Seiltgen