Tag: History

At the height of the Cold War, the FBI launched Operation Lemonade in 1977 to catch Soviet spies on their covert operations.

Amid the Cold War, a Russian spy tried to obtain intel from a Grumman engineer involved in the design of the then-state-of-the-art F-14 aircraft.

A huge explosion rocked New York in the early morning of 30 July 1916 as thousands of pounds of munitions on Black Tom Island detonated.

It’s the 1940s, and the Axis Powers led by Nazi Germany is aggressively invading their European neighbors, except for one, Switzerland.

In 2005, Sgt. Hester became the first female Silver Star Medal recipient since World War II for her valor in close combat during an enemy ambush in Iraq.

Marines at the Chosin Reservoir found themselves surrounded and outnumbered by over 100,000 Chinese soldiers five months into the Korean War.

All of the Medal of Honor recipients are men, except for Dr. Mary E. Walker, who is the first and only woman to receive the award.

The lengthy past of relations between Paris and Moscow may help to explain why it has been difficult for the French capital to sever ties with the Russian city completely…starting with Voltaire.

Over a century later, the whereabouts of the collier USS Cyclops (AC-4) remains unknown and may never be known… forever lost at sea.

Days after the liberation of a concentration camp, Gen. Eisenhower visited and saw firsthand the horrific conditions prisoners had to endure.

A 12-year-old Calvin Graham wore his big brother’s clothes to disguise himself along with forged consent to enlist in the Navy during WWII.

WWI witnessed some of the most iconic battles involving multiple forces from different civilizations and how costly that victory would be.