Washington’s Survival Depended on Makeshift Flotilla
Small force of Navy ships battled Confederate guns to keep the Potomac open for traffic
What We Learned From…The Battle of Mollwitz, 1741
Frederick invaded Silesia, Maria Theresa dispatched a 20,000-man army under Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg to eject him, and the War of the Austrian Succession was on
Gremlins!
It’s an old pilot’s tale: the idea that airplanes are sometimes infested with tiny mischief makers
The Darkest Week
In 1899 the Boers handed the British Army three humiliating defeats in southern Africa.
The Leading Man in the Skies
In 1942, disconsolate over his wife’s death, Clark Gable enlisted in the U.S. Army. Then he nearly lost his own life in the skies over Germany.
Fritz X: The First Precision-Guided Weapon of WWII
It was the first precision-guided weapon to be deployed in combat and the first to sink a ship in combat.
Meals, Revolting to Eat – the Most Disgusting Military Rations Ever
Through the ages soldiers have had to stomach all kinds of food that can only be described as awful. Here’s a sampling.
The Flight of the Hawkeyes: Daring—but Futile—Five-Month Prison Break
Iowa POWs walk nearly 300 miles in their bid to make it back to Union lines
‘We Are the Ones You Sent to Fight a War’
We are the ones you sent to fight a war you didn’t know a thing about.
Surrender of the Rising Sun
T. L. Deglin, who was a public relations officer in the U.S. Army during World War II, saw the Japanese surrender at close range.
Knight of the Air: Oswald Boelcke
Only among the aviators of the fighting armies is one certain to find that chivalry which once was never dissociated from war. Theirs is the special heritage of preserving the knightly tradition.
This Week in History – ‘Bonus Army’ Demands Pay From Washington During Great Depression
On July 28, 1932, WWI veterans hit by the Depression stormed Washington to collect bonuses promised to them after Congress delayed their disbursement
This Week in History – Fidel Castro Sets Spark To the Cuban Revolution
In 1953, an armed revolt led by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies replaced Cuba's military dictatorship with a Communist one
