Military History

The United States wasn’t the first country to develop a jet-powered fighter aircraft, but it was definitely the first in...

Baseball players enlisted in droves. For most of them, any kind of wound could end their major-league dreams forever. Some...

Jim Lovell spoke to the American Veterans Center about joining the Navy, becoming an astronaut and the rescue of the ill...

Ann Reeves Jarvis and Julia Ward Howe, sick of sons and fathers dying, wanted to remind people of the true cost of war.

Audrey Hepburn didn't talk much about her experiences during World War II, but one biographer was listening.

Here are a few of the most common things that would have kept an American out of the trenches.

Milunka Savić probably didn’t know she was about to set out on a seven-year rampage of destruction across two continents in...

Henry Johnson's discharge papers contained no mention of his heroic actions or injuries, depriving him of any awards or...

Looking to improve the military's long-range communications, George Owen Squier tested his theories on whatever resources...

A hundred years ago, German forces prepared to launch their final assault on the Western Front. But the New York Doughboys...