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The WWI Pistol That ‘Played’ Han Solo’s Blaster Just Sold for How Much?!
Would you pay $1,057,500 for a World War I–era Mauser C96 pistol not in its original configuration? An unidentified bidder at Rock Island’s Premier Firearms Auction did last month. That said, this is...
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‘Then the Sharks Came’: How One Sailor Survived the Sinking of the USS...
.image-13787183 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.14%; --top: 39.97%; } Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, two torpedoes struck the starboard side of the USS Indianapolis in the Pacific Ocean. Just...
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Book Review: ‘The Facemaker’ by Lindsey Fitzharris
With high-explosive artillery and sweeping machine gun fire, World War I changed the face of combat. It also destroyed the faces of tens of thousands of soldiers. A visionary surgeon, Dr. Harold...
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This Panther Pilot’s Combat Mission Was So Secret He Couldn’t Talk About it...
.image-13786313 { max-height: 100%; --left: 57.10%; --top: 19.13%; } Driving winds blew blinding snow across the deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Oriskany on November 18, 1952. Inside the...
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When Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Erupted in 1935, the US Army Tried to Stop It With Bombs
.image-13788730 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } Christmas Day 1935 turned out to be a busy one for the 23rd and 72nd Bombardment Squadrons of the U.S. Army Air Corps in Hawaii....
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He Survived the Kamikaze Attack on USS Bunker Hill. At the Age of 100, He...
.image-13787802 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.18%; --top: 30.04%; } On May 11, 1945, Everett “Red” Lanman of Plymouth, Massachusetts, was serving as an aviation mechanic on board the USS Bunker Hill...
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Do You Have What it Takes to Follow in These Telemark Commandos’ Ski Tracks?
.image-13789564 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.99%; --top: 77.73%; } Eighty years ago, on the night of Feb. 27–28, 1943, a team of 10 Norwegian commandos trained by the British Special Operations...
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These War Films Were Remade — Should They Have Been?
.image-13789567 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.75%; --top: 52.79%; } Beau Geste The 1924 novel by P.C. Wren, about brothers who run off to join the French Foreign Legion in the wake of a family...
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Vilified in Their Own Country, These Japanese-Americans Demonstrated True...
.image-13790605 { max-height: 100%; --left: 46.88%; --top: 43.89%; } In World War II, thousands of Japanese American soldiers served their country as translators in the Pacific Theater. Bruce...
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Inspired by His Family Military Tradition, This Lakota Served as a Medic in...
Francis Whiebird. Francis Whitebird hails from a long line of soldiers. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father all saw service in the U.S. Army dating back nearly 150 years. At the outset of...
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‘The Toughest Situation of my Life’: Now 99, A P-47 Pilot Reflects on Being...
.image-13792039 { max-height: 100%; --left: 41.96%; --top: 32.26%; } In the spring of 1945, Wally King was a young lieutenant flying a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt over Germany. During King’s last combat...
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How Many Civil War Soldiers Were Underage? More Than You Think
.image-13792863 { max-height: 100%; --left: 47.77%; --top: 24.45%; } In 1861, 9-year-old John Clem ran away from home and joined the Union Army, serving as a drummer boy in the 22nd Michigan Infantry....
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When the US Army Air Corps Needed to Rehab its Image, It Dispatched B-10...
.image-13793260 { max-height: 100%; --left: 76.34%; --top: 46.33%; } The date was set and preparations were underway. It would be a challenging mission, especially for 1934—a roundtrip flight from...
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The ‘Hello Girls’ Arrived in Europe Before the First Doughboys. Here’s Why...
Elizabeth Cobbs. With her book The Hello Girls and a follow-up documentary film, historian, commentator and author Elizabeth Cobbs set out to recognize the women who served in the U.S. Army Signal...
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‘Soldier of Destiny’: A Detailed View of Grant as an Evolving Soul
.image-13798047 { max-height: 100%; --left: 48.06%; --top: 26.91%; } On April 11, 1854, under a cloud of suspicion, Captain Ulysses S. Grant resigned his commission in the U.S. Army. Already saddled...
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Helicopters During the Civil War? Almost
Warships with powerful cannons patrol the waters just off Mobile Bay. It is the summer of 1864, and Union sailors are bristling for a fight, ready to take on any vessel tempted to run the blockade in...
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This Son of Maine Was Much More Than a Civil War Hero
.image-13794573 { max-height: 100%; --left: 45.08%; --top: 15.70%; } Thanks to modern media, Joshua L. Chamberlain is remembered today for his bravery on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg....
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‘Boston Harbor a Teapot Tonight’: The Revolutionary Act, 250 Years On
John Hicks made it home well after midnight on that chilly December night in 1773. Not wanting to wake his wife—and thus incur her wrath—he quietly entered his house in Cambridge, Mass., gingerly...
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Yes, Buzz Aldrin Walked on the Moon But We Asked Him About His Fighter Jock Days
.image-13796336 { max-height: 100%; --left: 53.02%; --top: 41.79%; } Buzz Aldrin. When Military History sought an interview with Buzz Aldrin, he initially demurred. The second human being ever to walk...
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From MiG Killer to Moonwalker: Buzz Aldrin Went to Korea and Beyond
.image-13796081 { max-height: 100%; --left: 57.61%; --top: 37.34%; } In its June 8, 1953, issue, Life magazine included a full-page spread with four blurry images of a North Korean Mikoyan-Gurevich...
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