Category: History

From Vietnam to Afghanistan, CH-46 Sea Knights, affectionately known as “Phrogs,” have been evacuating embassies. But they will never fly again.

A fake airliner, a Czech Frankenstein monster version of the Nazis’ Me 109, and a handful of maverick pilots wrote one of history’s unlikeliest pages.

The Marines won the Battle of Hue. Yet, the U.S. public opinion was blind to their efforts and sacrifice and considered the battle a defeat.

From crazed citizens to an armada of 1,200 aircraft overflying Tokyo Bay here are seven lesser-known facts about the Japanese surrender.

The choice to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have saved many more lives than it cost.

The British Royal Marines Commandos have a long and illustrious history. These are some facts you may not know about them.

Today, we would call Joshua Chamberlain, the rhetoric professor with a stutter, a nerd. How wrong would we be!

At the time, Thomas Jefferson’s slave passage created a lot of contention and was eventually dropped from the Declaration of Independence.

He was 78 when British troops shot him in the face, bayonetted him six times, and clubbed him. They thought he was dead. They were wrong.

Never again would the Confederates venture into Northern territory. From that point, until the war’s end, they’d be fighting a defensive war.

From the genius of Flagg’s Uncle Sam poster to the cringy 80s to the animation of today, these are the best and worst Army recruiting ads.

Saddam Hussein deftly maneuvered through the Ba’ath party’s ranks to become president of Iraq and usher in his a brutal dictartorship.