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The inside story of the deadliest attack on a U.S. military base during the Iraq War
The real-life Maverick who took on 7 Soviet jets in a classified Korean War dogfight
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Meet the very good boy who brought smokes to soldiers in the trenches of WWI
A soldier's best friend.
Boxer, grunt, flyboy: the wild life of the first Black American combat pilot
You know you've made it when Ernest Hemingway models a character after you.
The 100-year-old blueprint for the world’s first tank is up for sale
The daddy of all tanks.
Eddie Rickenbacker: American hero and candidate for most interesting man in the world
A self-made aviation pioneer, patriot, war hero, and captain of industry, he embodies the American spirit like few others before or since.
Smedley Butler’s fiery speech to World War I veterans is still relevant today
'Makes me so damn mad, a whole lot of people speak of you as tramps. By God, they didn't speak of you as tramps in 1917 and '18.'
‘Retreat? Hell! We just got here!’ is 103 years old and still badass
The French didn't agree with the sentiment.
Why America’s first bomber was called ‘the flaming coffin’
American airpower had to start somewhere
This VR tour takes you into the trenches of WWI, but stops short of leaving you ‘fully traumatized’
"We got it as close as we could without people leaving this thing fully traumatized.”
More than a century after World War I, the Harlem Hellfighters’ nickname is finally official
“That was such a glaring error."
The legendary story of the 1914 Christmas truce
Editor's note: This article was originally published on Dec. 16, 2015.
The march of the Bonus Army
Eighty-eight years ago thousands of U.S. military veterans gathered their belongings and began a long march across the country to Washington, D.C. Once there, they pitched their canvas tents in neatly ordered rows and dug in for a long fight.
The lore of Uncle Wally leads a family from Bagram to Meuse-Argonne
Uncle Wally’s service had been family lore. And the monument—erected somewhere in a small town in France—loomed large in my imagination. My dad didn’t know the name of the town. Perhaps Uncle Wally didn’t, either.
Legendary Harlem Hellfighter and MoH recipient Henry Johnson has a graphic novel detailing his service during WWI
The story of Medal of Honor recipient Henry Jonson is now a graphic novel.
Remembering the fallen veterans of the 1918 pandemic
"We are all a part of everything that's happening, all at the mercy of history and where it picks us up in its currents."
Here’s how one soldier captured 132 enemies in WWI
Alvin York was originally a pacifist who tried to get out of being drafted. He ended up in the 82nd...
How the US military’s love of boot-shaming gave America the gift of ‘IDK’
Boot-shaming is a time-honored U.S. military tradition that goes back to at least World War I. It's also, apparently, the original source of some of a well-worn piece of digital slang
A ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ version of ‘1917’ exists and it is glorious
Someone painstakingly cut scenes from SpongeBob SquarePants and set it to Sam Mendes' World War I drama '1917'
Over 100 Coasties died in a U-boat attack in 1918. Now, the Coast Guard wants to give Purple Hearts to their descendants
The sinking was the single largest loss of life for the Coast Guard during WWI.
Special operators could soon rock a new suppressor that relies on WWI technology
Radical Firearms has unveiled its new machine-gun suppressor, which was recently selected to be evaluated under a Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) program
7 visceral WWI movies and shows to watch after you experience ‘1917’
Movies so real you'll worry about trench foot
