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Mar 6, 2026
On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the Rhine. It was the last major airborne operation of WWII....
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Mar 4, 2026
On March 13, 1968, 320 gallons of VX nerve agent spilled into Skull Valley Utah. The following day, over 6,000 sheep were dead, exposing the Military's use of illegal chemical...
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Mar 2, 2026
When Operation Bribie ended, eight Australians were dead and 27 were wounded. The men who survived were divided over whether to call it a battle or a beating. It was one of the...
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Feb 27, 2026
Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to...
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Feb 23, 2026
On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj. Arthur D. "Nick" Nicholson. He was the last American killed in the line of duty during the Cold War. The U.S....
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Feb 11, 2026
The Battle of Manila was the bloodiest urban battle American troops fought in the Pacific War, leading to six Medals of Honor and hundreds of thousands of American, Japanese and...
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Feb 6, 2026
By late 1967, the M50 Ontos was just about phased out of military service. The Army had rejected it back in 1953, calling it too cramped, too lightly armored and too awkward to...
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Feb 4, 2026
On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2...
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Feb 2, 2026
On June 17, 1863, Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was forced to watch his men get slaughtered near the village of Aldie, Virginia. Just hours earlier, his superior officer had placed him...
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Jan 28, 2026
Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers...
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Jan 26, 2026
Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of enemy soldiers and held their position for five hours. Only...
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Jan 23, 2026
One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti. The low-altitude bombing raid aimed to cripple...
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Jan 19, 2026
Captain Charles T. Boyd knew his orders. General John J. Pershing had told him to avoid a fight. But on June 21, 1916, outside Carrizal, Mexico, Boyd faced 400 Mexican federal troops...
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Jan 14, 2026
While millions of Americans can name Western Front battles like Belleau Wood or the Meuse-Argonne, almost no one remembers the 332nd Infantry Regiment. They shouldn't be forgotten....
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Jan 9, 2026
The 45th was the only "green" division in the invasion with no combat experience. Its 180th Infantry Regiment struggled badly in the first 48 hours after landing. They suffered...
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Jan 7, 2026
By late March of 1953, the Korean War remained mostly static as peace negotiations went back and forth. U.N. and communist forces launched repeated bloody assaults to secure control...
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Jan 5, 2026
On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World War II. American P-38 Lightning fighters attacked what...
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Jan 2, 2026
The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor, and fears of Axis agents operating along the waterfront...
Feb 27, 2026Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to...
Feb 11, 2026The Battle of Manila was the bloodiest urban battle American troops fought in the Pacific War, leading to six Medals of Honor and hundreds of thousands of American, Japanese and...
Jan 19, 2026Captain Charles T. Boyd knew his orders. General John J. Pershing had told him to avoid a fight. But on June 21, 1916, outside Carrizal, Mexico, Boyd faced 400 Mexican federal troops...