Category: History

Nestled between Memorial Day and the 4th of July, Flag Day is often overlooked, but it traces its roots back to the early days of the United States. 

Unlike many of the paratroopers who went through their baptism of fire on D-Day, Charles DeGlopper was already an experienced fighter.

Thanks to their risky choice of disobeying orders some of these soldiers became heroes. They save lives, cities, or the entire world.

“What outfit is this?” Cota asked still standing upright. “5th Rangers,”was said. “Well Hell Rangers, Lead the Way!” And the Rangers’ motto was born.

In just five minutes, the entire scope of the war had changed. Japan’s massive superiority in aircraft carriers was obliterated in Midway.

Every so often extraordinary men emerge. Robert MacKenzie was such a man doing more than most to stop Communism.

Simo Häyhä was as deadly as a machine gun. His Soviet adversaries aptly called him “the White Death.”

The Battle of the Coral Sea proved that the Japanese juggernaut could be stopped. And nothing was the same afterwards.

Was Marvin Heemeyer AKA the “Killdozer,” a brave man fighting against injustice or a lunatic set on destroying lives? Read to find out more.

In one of the most daring raids in U.S. special operations history, Navy SEALs delivered the fury of Neptune’s Spear against Osama bin Laden.

Father Willie Doyle would rush out of the trench to save soldiers regardless of whether they were English, Irish, or German.

Being a top model, a Countess, and an OSS/CIA agent might sound fantastical. But that was just the average day in the life of Aline Griffith.