
06/03/2022
What Made the Legendary Spitfire So Successful?
The Spitfire was exactly the right airplane at the right time for a Britain at war. But if not for one man, it might never have been built.
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The Spitfire was exactly the right airplane at the right time for a Britain at war. But if not for one man, it might never have been built.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's seldom-seen steely side came in handy while laying the groundwork for Operation Overlord.
Why did the Fifth Army's Mark W. Clark go off track after the Anzio breakout and make a drive for Rome?
Superiors branded him “difficult.” Yet Percy Hobart was just the kind of genius the Allies desperately needed.
Experienced foreign mercenaries worked with "El Libertador" to hasten the end of Spanish rule in South America.
Award-winning historian John Boessenecker uncovers the truth behind her tragic life
While film buffs and military history aficionados may have their own firm picks and opinions, here are, in no particular order, our top five best WWII films.
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A “Babe Ruth of Storytellers” holds history in his head… and his pockets.
Four men who served in the Vietnam War are in line to have U.S. Army bases named in their honor.
The author’s recent book centers on the Allied soldiers who first engaged the enemy at Normandy.
The author’s latest book centers on the Allied soldiers who first engaged the enemy at Normandy
Fidel Castro’s Cuban rebels lost their first battle against the government’s well-armed troops. It was all uphill from there.
How women nurtured the American Revolution.
A veteran of the B-24 raid on Ploesti tells the real story behind the costly mission.
There are unattractive uniforms, and then there are those so ugly that soldiers who wear them literally kill themselves.
John Pemberton’s formula was introduced as the fountain drink Coca-Cola in May 1886 at the Jacobs Pharmacy in Atlanta. It sold 25 gallons the first year.
Soon after Coca-Cola hit the market, Pemberton became ill and was nearly bankrupt, which some reports attribute to his continuing morphine addiction. He
Did the "Deadly Dentist" live on whiskey? How many men did he really kill?
At 19 years old, Henry Langrehr was among the first to jump feet first into France behind enemy lines. June 5, 1944 was the teen’s first time in combat.
“From the plane I was flying in to France I could see all the ships in the water, and I thought to myself, ‘I could have walked to France on these
Built to help the Brits, Canada's Ram II melded elements of the American M3 Lee medium tank with a redesigned hull.
At 56, President Theodore Roosevelt's son was the oldest soldier deployed during Operation Overlord and the highest-ranking American to storm the beaches.
The clash of dreadnoughts was as gigantic as it was indecisive. Both sides were losers. Nonetheless, one this day in 1916, the Battle of Jutland was a turning point of World War I.
The clash of dreadnoughts was as gigantic as it was indecisive. Both sides were losers. Nonetheless, the battle was a turning point.
Ukraine once manufactured this battle tank for Russia, but now it's using the T-64 to destroy Russian forces.
Mormon polygamy grabbed the national spotlight in 1875 when Prophet Brigham Young's 19th wife, Ann Eliza, divorced him, wrote an expose about plural marriage and set out on a lecture tour.
Ann Eliza Young married Brigham Young. And then she sued him.
An Ohio teacher got his first true taste of battle as Vicksburg fell in the summer of 1863. Two arduous but fulfilling years in uniform followed.
In 1351 opposing hosts of medieval knights and squires met on a field—not to settle a war, but to test one another’s mettle
Though Memorial Day was made an official federal holiday in 1971, its roots trace all the way back to the Civil War.
The true history of Memorial Day has nothing to do with backyard barbecues.
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#OnThisDay in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial dedication ceremony drew more than 50,000 people to Washington, D.C. The new memorial showed how much the country had come together — and how much it still had to go. #MemorialDay
A century ago, the new memorial showed how much the country had come together — and how much it still had to go.
We love ’em all, but if we were trapped in a mine, these are the ones to watch—the best Western movies ever made.
Award-winning historian John Boessenecker uncovers the truth behind her tragic life
Not even Alfred Hitchcock could have concocted the avian idea — carrier pigeons in bras. Or, at the very least, carrier pigeons in vests made by a brassiere company.
Not even Alfred Hitchcock could have concocted the avian idea — carrier pigeons in bras. Or, at the very least, carrier pigeons in vests made by
A century ago, the new memorial showed how much the country had come together — and how much it still had to go. #MemorialDay
A century ago, the new memorial showed how much the country had come together — and how much it still had to go.
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Aging vets faced a number of challenges at the 1913 reunion.
The Buran spaceplane never lived up to its potential after it was overcome by political and economic forces beyond its designers’ control.
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