HISTORY
-
First Medal of Honor Recipient from Vietnam War Dies at 89
Roger Donlon, the first American to receive a Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War, died Thursday in…
Read More » -
The Making of a War Film
What is a war movie? Is it a faithful restaging of an actual historical event? Or is it a fictional…
Read More » -
I’ll trade you Swoose for Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby!
Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, the Boeing B-17G featured on the cover of Aviation History’s Summer 2023 issue, has completed another…
Read More » -
How Curtis LeMay Put America’s Defenses on Alert 24/7
Seventy-five years ago, as both the Cold War and aviation technology were ramping up, the newly formed United States Air…
Read More » -
His Sergeant in Vietnam Became His Hero. He Never Forgot It.
Willie Johnson was a 35-year-old African American from South Carolina with a wife and six kids. What did I, a…
Read More » -
Abraham Lincoln’s Embrace of Foreign-Born Fighters
In the earliest days of Union enlistment in New York City, anyone willing to volunteer was welcome at recruitment offices—including…
Read More » -
How Erwin Rommel Has Been Lost in Translation
In late October 1917, a detachment of German mountain troopers weary from hard Alpine fighting on the Isonzo front were…
Read More » -
Meet the Heroes Who Delivered Aid and Comforted the Dying on the Battlefields of World War I
In the agony of trench warfare and no man’s land, the sound of a skitter and a wet nose —…
Read More » -
America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again
Henry Clay, nicknamed the Star of the West and the Great Compromiser, served as Speaker of the U.S. House of…
Read More » -
These Fighting ‘Mighty Midgets’ Packed Big Guns
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater in World War II culminated with a grueling, bloody amphibious campaign to capture one Japanese-held seabound stronghold…
Read More »