The Battle of Hamel: Australian Soldiers Taught American Doughboys to Fight Germans in WWI For the first time in American history, U.S. soldiers would fight under a foreign command. In 93 minutes, they would help win...
The 1944 Air Battle Over Niš: The Only Direct Combat Between American and Soviet Forces in WWII On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World...
How the Physician Assistant Field Arose from Military Medicine Every physician assistant practicing today owes the profession's existence to combat medics and Navy corpsmen who proved that...
The Korean Battle for Outpost Vegas: 1,000 Casualties, Two Medals of Honor, One Four-Legged Hero By late March of 1953, the Korean War remained mostly static as peace negotiations went back and forth. U.N. and communist...
Seminole Warriors Fought the US Military to a Stalemate in the Florida Swamps Fewer than 2,000 Seminole warriors held off an American force that eventually numbered more than 30,000 troops. It became the...
Operation Underworld: How an Italian Mafia Boss in Prison Helped the US Invade Sicily in World War II The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor...
German Spies Detonated 2 Million Pounds of Explosives in New York Harbor in 1916: The Statue of Liberty's Torch Has Been Closed Ever Since Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New...
This NFL Player Lost Both Legs at Iwo Jima – and Rallied His Platoon to Keep Fighting Jack Lummus' heroism dwarfed anything he did for the Giants in his short time with the franchise, but they never forgot his...
How a US War Crime Against a German Rescue Mission Helped Exonerate a Nazi Admiral at Nuremberg Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was...
The Biggest 1995 Pop Culture Moments That Turned 30 in 2025, From Toy Story to Homer From Toy Story to The Simpsons’ Homer, 1995 redefined pop culture through animation, tech, and imagination. Thirty years...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
Troops Will Miss Paychecks Next Week Without Action on the Government Shutdown The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families, because those in uniform...
