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7 things people use every day that originated in the military
The military is responsible for a huge amount of consumer goods and technology that people are using everyday. Here are seven examples: 1. Duct tape The grey tape that can "fix" just about any problem was originally des…
This is how Royal Marines used Apaches as troop transports during a rescue mission
[brid video="115340" player="7965" title="Mighty Minute Royal Marines"]In January 2007, a group of Royal Marines devised a risky and unorthodox mission to rescue one of their own who was trapped inside an enemy compound. To get him back, four …
How a modern battalion of Army Rangers would perform in Civil War combat
U.S. Army Rangers are some of the most storied warriors in history. The 75th Ranger Regiment traces its lineage back to World War II where it served with distin…
What did it sound like to land at Iwo Jima?
In this age of smartphones and social media, we often get unprecedented access to events that we normally would have just read about in a paper long ago. Many of us have seen videos of combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and countless other pl…
Why the pilot of the Enola Gay needed a tire gauge and a tape measure to keep his plane in the air
The B-29 Superfortress was arguably the most advanced bomber to fly in World War II. While two of them, the Enola Gay and Bock's Car, are the only planes to ever use an atomic bomb in anger, much of a B-29 pilot's work was not glamorous at all.
4 of the deadliest sniper rifles in World War II
World War II sniper rifles were often updated World War I models made better with new telescopic sights and upgrades to make them more easily employed in combat. These relatively minor improvements to the weapons made the snipers much mor…