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History (Page 8)

Latest in History

This World War I battlefield is on fire and exploding 100-year-old ordnance

I don’t know what to make of this Afghanistan docu-series, but maybe that’s the point

This Air Force F-15’s paint job honors hero who gave his parachute to another airman after their plane was hit

The fatal flaw in the Marine Corps’ approach to countering China

The military’s top hospital is copying wounded troops’ tattoos onto their prosthetic limbs

A desperate Marine vet robbed a bank after the VA missed his disability payment. A new movie explores why

How World War II gave the world the ‘American Chopper’ motorcycle

The wild story of how an American POW ended up fighting alongside the Soviets in WWII

EOD commander reunited with working dog 3 years after patrolling in Afghanistan together

How muscle cars, sideburns and John Travolta helped save the military after Vietnam

This whimsical machine gun-toting bunny is the Air Force’s latest squadron mascot

Air Force F-16 pilot explains how he dodged 6 missiles during insane Gulf War mission

Hollywood has made a staggering amount of money re-winning World War II

How an F-15 scored an air-to-air kill by dropping a bomb on an enemy helicopter

The Army is getting leaders ready for a war unlike any the US has ever seen

These 4 soldiers just received the Medal of Honor for standing between their men and enemy fire

A Marine’s Bronze Star offers insight into US troops’ heroism during the Kabul evacuation

The few, the proud, the drunk: Meet America’s revolutionary yet ‘ungentlemanlike’ troops of 1776

Santa Monica is considering giving veterans a beach house

Off the shelf, above the fight: How cheap drones are completely changing warfare

‘I was literally on fire’ — Airman recalls how an unlikely hero saved his life in Iraq

The last living WWII Medal of Honor recipient has died

What the cult classic ‘Red Dawn’ teaches us about insurgent warfare

Explorers found the USS Samuel B. Roberts, which sunk 78 years ago holding off an overwhelming Japanese battle group

Meet the ‘Wizzo’ — The secret sauce to one of the Air Force’s deadliest fighter jets

How a selfie with James Mattis shows he’s a Marine for the people

The real-life Maverick who took on 7 Soviet jets in a classified Korean War dogfight

Meet the legendary ‘father of Special Forces’ who helped establish the Green Berets

How structural racism led to the biggest mutiny in US Navy history

How the Marine Corps went to war with itself over the next war

A helicopter flown in Afghanistan is now a military couple’s camper

‘Devotion’ trailer teases the story of a Medal of Honor recipient who tried to save his wingman in the Korean War

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, we are still bringing home our fallen

How nearly 900 soldiers from Maine earned — and lost — the Medal of Honor

This Netflix animated short was inspired by one grunt’s pill-induced delirium in Afghanistan

Navy warship named for Medal of Honor recipient who saved fellow sailors from deadly inferno

Army awards WWII veteran medals he earned after 250 days of hellish combat and 78 years

President Bush may find it funny but the Iraq War is no joke

The unlawful detention of Asian Americans during World War II remains disturbingly relevant

Marine Sgt Maj John Canley, Medal of Honor hero of the Battle of Hue, has died

This warship was converted into a floating brewery for allied troops during World War II

Why the Coast Guard once put missiles on cutters and afterburners on passenger jets

The upgraded ‘Marine One’ presidential helicopter will still scorch the White House lawn

These are America’s Black Medal of Honor recipients

John Glenn Was Even More Interesting Than You Know

Inside the Pentagon’s shameful effort to draft mentally disabled men to fight in Vietnam

These barefoot Marines defended American Samoa during World War II

Why bombers on WWII’s legendary ‘Doolittle Raid’ had broomsticks instead of tail guns

Tom Hanks will continue his absolute domination of World War II entertainment

What that one scene in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ teaches us about complaining in the military

Airmen are pissed that an entire C-17 crew except for the maintainer received a Distinguished Flying Cross

An American POW made his own prosthetic leg at a German prison camp during WWII

The next Coast Guard commandant could be the first woman in history to serve as a uniformed service chief

Inside the Air Force’s secret mission to lift half a ton of enriched uranium out of Kazakhstan

4 airmen awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for evacuating more than 150 civilians from Kabul

The fascinating story of how the Jeep became America’s favorite military vehicle

How pairing ‘female engagement teams’ with battle-tested grunts changed the US military forever

A Taliban leader offered the US control of Kabul during the evacuation. Here’s why a top US general said no

Alwyn Cashe, Audie Murphy, Mary Walker among choices to replace bases named after Confederates

Meet the Allies’ most dangerous spy in France during World War II

How an Air Force A-10 pilot pulled off a miracle landing with much of her tail shot off

Meet the legendary Marine behind one of the most badass battle cries ever

Feminist, surgeon, spy: Meet the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor

Meet the very good boy who brought smokes to soldiers in the trenches of WWI