Military History

Have you ever wondered what hygiene was like for World War I soldiers or if there were any at all?

While this might be 66 years way too late, here’s how one could’ve avoided being drafted during the Vietnam War, both legal and illegal ways.

A collection of American Independence Day celebrations in our history.

Nick was once a prisoner of war in Vietnam who managed to survive the very last minute. His saving grace? His beard.

I never knew the men who died on June 28th, 2005 as part of Operation Red Wings, but their loss still moved me greatly. At the time, it was the greatest one-day loss of life in the special operations community. It’s hard to fathom that was 17 years ago today.

There are some instances when the world just does not have the luxury of time, and vaccines should be rushed, and the same thing happened during World War II when the war couldn’t just wait.

How long do you think you could last to hold off enemy forces if the fate of the entire world was in your hands? For Command Sergeant Major Bennie G. Adkins, he’d gladly do it for as long as he could.

Edwards was caught and sentenced to death for slaughtering cattle that he and his comrades were planning to eat.

In the summer of 1937, Britain was known to be the spy hub for the Germans who wanted to gather intelligence. What they did not expect was that the spies they were looking for were a group of teenage boys cycling around seemingly innocently.

In the days and hours leading up to the D-Day invasion, extremely dangerous missions were given to the British Special Air Service (SAS) commandos, Navy UDT divers, and Jedburgh teams. You may be asking, “What’s a Jedburgh team?” Read on to find out.

When the US declared war on Germany in 1917, the War Department decided to accept black Americans in the draft as they needed a lot of troops.

Everyone knows the story of George Armstrong Custer, but few know the story of his brother Tom, who George said should have been a general instead of him.