With 27 1/2 confirmed aerial kills, George Preddy — the top-scoring Mustang ace of World War II — was undefeated until he ran into friendly fire on Christmas Day during the 1944 Ardennes offensive.
By Kelly Bell
With 27 1/2 confirmed aerial kills, George Preddy — the top-scoring Mustang ace of World War II — was undefeated until he ran into friendly fire on Christmas Day during the 1944 Ardennes offensive.
By Kelly Bell
Graf Zeppelin‘s epic around-the-world flight was a mixed experience for passengers and crew alike — but the airship would go on to log more than 1 million miles.
By Eric Niderost
Although his glory years in Tombstone were behind him, down-on-his-luck Doc Holliday delivered a parting shot or two in Colorado.
Thirty-three hundred years ago, below the sun-drenched walls of Kadesh, the Egyptian and Hittite […]
Flying the big Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Bob Johnson survived a lot of punishment at the hands of the Luftwaffe. He inflicted even more.
Union artillery brought a deadly end to the career of clergyman-turned-soldier Leonidas Polk.
Bill Gay made $100,000 in gold prospecting the Black Hills of the Dakotas. Then he shot his way to the hangman’s noose in Montana.
Slavery, threats of seccesion and other factors made America a tinderbox in 1857 — all it needed was a match.
When Braxton Bragg’s Confederates swooped down on the Federals at Stones River, only one division stood between the Rebels and calamitous defeat. Fortunately for the Union, that division was commanded by Phil Sheridan.
The prosecution of one of the greatest sieges in ancient history offers a chance to assess the nature of Rome’s military discipline and its importance to the success of the imperial army.