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These were the 6 most massive tank battles in US history
Here are 6 times American tank units found themselves massively fighting it out with enemy armor: 1. Battle of the Bulge
How to escape from being tied up, according to a Navy SEAL
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, more than 2,000 people go missing throughout the U.S. every day. Many of those innocent individuals are taken fro…
How Civil War infantrymen slaughtered one another
If you think that troops marched at each other with muskets and rifles in the Civil War because they were too dumb to maneuver, you're dead wrong. Civil War formations were the pinnacle of strategy at the time, allowing commanders to bring maximum …
This is how the misfit crew of ‘Old 666’ became the most decorated in history
History remembers Capt. Jay Zeamer as a tremendous pilot, but he had a rough time getting into the cockpit. Originally commissioned in the Infantry Reserve, he later transferred to the Army Air Corps to fulfill his dream of flying. There …
That time a Canadian invented an e-tool that doubled as a shield
There's a long list of interesting technologies that almost made their way onto the front lines during the brutal days of World War I. In trench warfare, as troops set into position to attempt a shot, they often became the enemy's targe…
The 9 coolest things militaries have done with the M113
Though one wouldn't expect much from an armored vehicle developed by the Food Machinery Corporation, th…
That one time in 1995 when Russia almost used nuclear missiles against the United States
Russia almost blew the United States away with a nuclear strike in 1995 after mistakenly thinking it was under attack. If it weren't for Russia's then-president Boris Yeltsin, America as we know it wouldn't exist. Under the "launch-on-warning…
This carrier pigeon saved a battalion in World War I
By fall of 1918, the Allies were pushing back the Germans all along the Western Front. In September, the Allies launched the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the final offensive of World War I. But the Germans were not yet beaten and were still fighting t…