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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

civil war fistfight

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

By Blake Stilwell

postwar mafia newspapers

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

general patton grave

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

Daniel Morgan's riflemen

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

mafia mussolini

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

washington UFO incident national archives

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

MASH units BJ and Hawkeye 20th century studios

‘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

ramages rampage

‘Ramage’s Rampage’ saw a World War II sub sink 5 ships in 40 minutes

marines at tripoli

Afghanistan War

‘The Few. The Proud’: The moments that made the Marines the Marines

100 year old marine reunited with iwo jima tank marine corps

100-year-old Marine reunited with tank he drove on Iwo Jima

By Miguel Ortiz

A-10 Pilot's Coloring Book

The A-10 training guide from the 1970s was a hilarious coloring book

By Blake Stilwell

The Night Stalkers' memorial service display for Operation Red Wings in Bagram, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan War

Operation Red Wings through the eyes of the Night Stalkers

Joshua Skovlund Coffee Or Die

Gun Trucks of Vietnam: The Untouchable

The Gun Trucks of Vietnam: How US soldiers transformed cargo vehicles into fighting machines

Matt Fratus Coffee Or Die

heart attack gun

The CIA secretly created an undetectable ‘heart attack gun’

By Blake Stilwell

Detachment A berlin

A secret Cold War unit was the basis for today’s special operations

By Blake Stilwell

Bigfoot vietnam

Some US troops reportedly saw Bigfoot in Vietnam

By Blake Stilwell

vampires vietnam

US troops pretended to be vampires and ghosts to scare the hell out of communists

ghost stories vietnam

4 creepy ghost stories from the Vietnam War

By Blake Stilwell

wilsons wharf all-black brigade

Robert E. Lee’s nephew got beaten by an all-Black brigade so bad he had to lie about it

By Samantha Dunne

B-52 tail gunner utapao vietnam

B-52 tail gunners scored two kills in the last bombing campaign of the Vietnam War

By Friedrich Seiltgen

The CIA declassified these 11 Russian jokes about the Soviet Union

By Blake Stilwell

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Graham Greene was not a Marine. Here’s why everyone thinks he was.

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Afghanistan War

Congressional legislation for Afghan allies could provide resolution of four-year battle for status, support

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The 10 best generals of all time, determined by statistical analysis

By Blake Stilwell

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Why the SR-71 Blackbird is the only aircraft with the SR designation

By Blake Stilwell

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Donald McPherson, America’s last World War II fighter ace, dies at 103

By Miguel Ortiz

World War II airman Alan Magee survived a 22,000-foot fall without a parachute

By Friedrich Seiltgen

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An unrepentant 95-year-old North Korean POW wants to walk back across the DMZ

By Blake Stilwell

presidents see combat

8 presidents who actually saw combat in a big way

By Blake Stilwell

Kilroy was here

‘Kilroy Was Here’ was the World War II-era viral meme

By Blake Stilwell

This World War II veteran played a song for the sniper trying to kill him

This World War II veteran played a song for the sniper trying to kill him

By Blake Stilwell

Desert Shield at 35: Why the Gulf War Still Matters

By Robert Billard