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Military
From the NFL to the Sands of Iwo Jima: Medal of Honor Recipient Jack Lummus
WWII’s Freeman Field Mutiny: The Black Officers Who Took a Stand Against Segregation
WWII’s Schwerer Gustav: The Biggest Gun Ever Fired in Combat
The M1 Helmet: The US Military’s Protective Headgear in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam
WWII Tanks – The Panzer II: A Stopgap Tank that Turned out to be Key to the Blitzkrieg
The Deadly M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer: WWII’s Fastest Tracked Armored Fighting Vehicle
When Surrounded US Marines Requested Ammunition and Got Tootsie Rolls Instead
The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2: Britain’s Most Important Airplane at the Start of WWI
The Underappreciated Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: One of WWII’s Most Important Fighters
WWII’s Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, History’s Sole Rocket-Propelled Fighter
American Tanks of World War II: The M3 Stuart Light Tank
WWI’s Adrian Helmet: The First Modern Combat Helmet
The Semovente da 75/18: Italy’s WWII Self-Propelled Gun That Became a Surprisingly Effective Tank Destroyer
WWII’s PIAT: The Anti-Tank Weapon that Launched Projectiles With a Spring
The Daimler Armoured Car: Britain’s Most Successful WWII Reconnaissance Vehicle
The Little-Known 1977 Four Day War Between Egypt and Libya: A Turning Point in Middle Eastern Geopolitics
The Grumman F8F Bearcat: The Pinnacle of Piston Engine Fighter Design and Technology
WWII Bombers – The Polikarpov Po-2: The Humble Biplane that Kept the Germans Awake at Night
Chappie James: America’s First Black Four-Star General
WWII Bombers: The Mitsubishi Ki-21, Japan’s Early Mainstay Bomber
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, America’s Key Fighter for Most of the Cold War
Flying Donkey: The Polikarpov I-16, Backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the Start of WWII
WWII Fighters – The MiG-3: A Great High Altitude Interceptor in a Low Altitude War
Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Squadron: America’s WWII Black Pilots
William Henry Johnson, the “Black Death” Whose WWI Heroism Was Overlooked for Nearly a Century
Epaminondas of Thebes: Ancient Greece’s Greatest Liberator
The Original Black Panthers: WWII’s African-American 761st Tank Battalion
The Avro 504: World War I’s Most Produced Warplane
The Medieval Raven King and His Mercenary Black Army: Matthias Corvinus vs the Ottoman Turks
The Carro Armato M13/40: Italy’s Most Important WWII Tank
Britain’s Iconic Avro Lancaster Dropped the Most Bomb Tonnage of any WWII Bomber
Ed “Too Tall” Freeman: The Heroic Helicopter Pilot Who Saved Dozens of Lives in Vietnam
E-Boat vs Motor Torpedo Boat: WWII’s Terrifying Small Craft War Within a War
WWII Fighters – The Controversial P-39 Airacobra: Derided by Western Pilots, Beloved by Soviet Flyers
The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5: ‘The Spitfire of World War I’
HMS Dreadnought: The Battleship That Revolutionized Naval Warfare
WWII’s M1 Bazooka: The Granddaddy of Man-Portable Rocket Launchers
The StuG III: The Formidable WWII Assault Gun Turned Tank Destroyer
WWII Fighters – Fiat CR.42 Falco: Italy’s Surprisingly Effective Biplane
WWII Bombers: Germany’s Heinkel He 111, Backbone of the Early Blitzkrieg
WWI Fighters: The Sopwith Camel, the Allies’ Deadliest Warplane that Terrified Both Friend and Foe
The F-86 Sabre Beat Back the MiG-15 Over Korea, and Became the Most Produced Western Jet Fighter
The Bell AH-1 Cobra in Vietnam: A Stopgap Design that Revolutionized Helicopter Warfare
WWII Fighters – LaGG-3: The Disappointing Soviet Wooden Warplane
The 1914 Christmas Truce: An Interlude of Humanity That Interrupted War’s Horrors
The Polish No. 303 Squadron: The Battle of Britain’s Deadliest Pilots
The V-3 Cannon: The Super Gun With Which Hitler Wanted to Destroy London
The Raid on the Medway: When the Dutch Humiliated the English Navy in its Home
The Bizarre Case of Mitsuyasu Maeno: Japanese Porn Star Who Flew a Kamikaze Plane Into a Yakuza Boss’ House to Protest an American Corruption Scandal
World War II Fighters: The Complex Legacy of the Messerschmitt Bf 110
WWII Tanks – The Panzer I: Backbone of the Early Blitzkrieg
John Hawkwood, the English Mercenary Who Roiled Medieval Italy
WWI Fighters – The Sopwith Pup, British Pilots’ Most Beloved Biplane
WWII Fletcher Class Destroyers: America’s Most Successful Destroyer Design
WWII Bombers: Petlyakov Pe-2, the Formidable Soviet Bomber Designed in a Gulag
Khalid ibn al-Walid, the Formidable General Who Beat Both the Byzantines and Persians
Phyllis Latour: The WWII SOE Agent Who Posed as a Teenager in Nazi-Occupied France
Operation Bertram: Deceiving the Desert Fox With Dummy Tanks and Illusions
WWII Fighters – The Brewster F2A Buffalo: A ‘Flying Coffin’ to US Marines, but a ‘Pearl’ to the Finns
The Son Tay Raid: A Daring Special Forces Assault to Rescue American POWs in North Vietnam
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