Military History

Army planners thought they would be invading Lebanon. They didn't even know where Grenada was.

In 1942, Phil Bucklew and nine other naval warfare pioneers trained to perform amphibious assaults before the U.S. had any...

Air Force Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. is the founder and commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, a veteran of three wars and the son...

Fred "Tiz" Morrison and William Goines were Black pioneers in naval special warfare and generally acknowledged to be the...

The Korean War -- often called "The Forgotten War" -- was one of the first major conflicts of the Cold War, representing the...

Before Dr. Ruth Westheimer began teaching couples how best to shoot their shot, she was taking some shots of her own.

More than 83,000 pension records from the Revolutionary War require preservation ahead of commemorations of the conflict's...

A battle named “Checkpoint Pasta” might seem funny, considering it was fought by Italian troops, but there's nothing funny...

The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of Black pilots who helped the Allies win World War II -- and helped break the military...

Lt. Col. James Harvey, one of the Tuskegee Airmen, called winning the Air Force's "Top Gun" competition in 1949 "the...