History

During the Civil War, a muzzle-loaded, single-shot rifle was what the Confederates depended on to shoot down Union officers and more.

The US government, in February 1945, was facing yet another huge problem apart from the ongoing war— millions of pieces of undelivered letters and packages.

Whether it was to keep their dirty secrets buried and away from the public or simply because they were not pleased with their servant anymore, these leaders just succeeded in removing them as if they never existed in the first place.

The city of Konstanz in Germany survived the bombings barely scathed by deceiving the Allied bombers, and they didn’t do some sort of complicated form of trickery.

Some tactics in the history of warfare were more brutal than the others, taking the concept of war to a whole new different level. While we are not here to question whether these techniques were too much or not, they were no doubt all-out devastating.

Today, the US relies almost entirely on million-dollar Lockheed Martin tractor-trailers to transport nuclear weapons, but during the Cold war, they depended on the so-called “white trains.”

King Edward I of England was not called the Hammer of the Scots for nothing. He created a weapon so terrifying the Scots had no choice but to surrender.

The US Army had been naming its helicopters after Native American tribes for decades now and for good reasons.

In the military, belts are essential not just for aesthetics but also for functional purposes, so are the buckles that have evolved through time.

As ridiculous as it might sound, a small detail like socks could dictate the fate of the soldiers in a war.

Tunnel rats performed underground search and destroy missions during the Vietnam War. A word of warning: The job was not for the faint of heart.

During WWI, soldiers suffering from PTSD that was called “Shell Shock” at that time were hugely misunderstood.