Latest History Stories
Fighter pilot to receive Navy Cross more than 70 years after classified dogfight with 7 Soviet jets
This WWII OSS manual shows that being annoying at work is the best form of sabotage
When did Marines really start eating crayons: An investigation
Former POW recalls captivity in Vietnam on New Year’s Eve 1972, months before his release
US troops conducted 313 missions and killed 686 ISIS fighters in 2022
Inside ‘The Hangover Raid’ — The WWII air battle of New Year’s Day, 1945
This is what happens when Navy pilots land on the wrong aircraft carrier
Silent night: Christmas in Ramadi amid violent insurgency
The complicated truth about the famous ‘Christmas Truce’ of World War I
Christmas in, Christmas out: A holiday deployment story
A very MACV-SOG Christmas: How a special operations team survived against all odds
Remembering the ‘Christmas bombings’ of the Vietnam War’s twilight, 50 years later
Navy warship USS Fallujah honors 2 of the hardest-fought battles of the Iraq War
Five hospitalized at US Army base in Germany after World War II-era bomb leaks
That time Gen. Douglas MacArthur ‘stopped’ WWII to celebrate the Army-Navy game
Afghan interpreter rescued by Marine officer denied visa to stay in US
How a Navy ‘assault team’ once stole all four of West Point’s treasured mules
‘Land, load ’em, go’ — How Army helicopter crews risked their lives to save 10,000 during Afghanistan evacuation
A brief look back at the Army’s long lost blue air assault beret
A MACV-SOG Thanksgiving: When 6 commandos took on 30,000 enemy troops
How a single ship made Thanksgiving happen in Europe at the height of WWII
A matter of life and death: How this crew chief kept the planes flying during the Kabul evacuation
These 100-year-old Marine Corps cartoons show that some things never change
How the documentary ‘Retrograde’ captured the last months of the war in Afghanistan
Josef Mencik: The last knight who stood against the Nazis
Korean War soldier’s remains identified after more than seven decades
This is what the US military’s first ‘DD-214’ looked like
What Americans are getting wrong about veterans
That time the Army tried to develop a missile guided by pigeons
That time Air Force surgeons disarmed a ‘human bomb’ in Vietnam
That time Pepsi promised to give away an actual fighter jet
The US military is still struggling to figure out social media
Jet packs and helmet radios: what the Army’s 1959 ‘soldier of the future’ got right and wrong
‘Fuck it’
The Marine Corps’ fitness test from the 1950s wasn’t that hard
Why the Air Force uses a ‘chicken gun’ to launch bird carcasses at its own aircraft
The Army once built an underground ice fortress during the Cold War
What this retro Air Force training video gets right (and wrong) about fighting off sharks
That time the Air Force designed a tiny fighter jet to launch from strategic bombers
Russia is reportedly trying to recruit former Afghan commandos to fight in Ukraine
Healthcare, the economy, reproductive rights: what matters most to veterans in the midterm elections
This Army video shows how much Ranger School has changed in 70 years
Air Force to award 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 12 Bronze Stars for heroic Afghan airlift
The bizarre history of the US military’s ethnic battalions during World War II
We salute the USS Decatur for flying its swashbuckling battle flag in a recent exercise
‘Don’t quit’ and other lessons from a legendary Air Force PJ’s 26-year career
The Army’s WWII ‘ghost divisions’ had some of the best patches
Mincemeat and stewed prunes: the best and worst from the Army’s 1942 cookbook
The end of the brown beret: Air Force special ops squadron shuts down after 28 years advising allied aviators
Who gets to call themselves a ‘combat veteran’?
That time the military faked a vampire massacre to fight rebels
That time 200,000 US troops spent an entire war on sick call
The World War II story of the first time US military pilots encountered UFOs
For the love of God, please stop referring to Navy warships as ‘battleships’
Lawmakers want to replace ‘thank you for your service’ with something even more meaningless
Watch Air Force Thunderbirds perform their first-ever dual ‘missing man’ formation for 2 of their original pilots
Here’s the Army’s 1949 guide on how to be a well-mannered soldier
A century later, a World War I submarine has been found
This Marine predicted how the US would fight in the Pacific 20 years before WWII
How coffee helped the Union army win the Civil War
The Department of Energy had a nuclear commando task force in the 1980s that looked straight out of ‘Counter Strike’
This was the Army’s Cold War plan for a war on the Moon, and the weapons it’d use to win it
Tank warfare is still relevant, even if the Russians suck at it
A look back at the humble beginnings of morning PT in the US military
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