The A-7 Corsair’s exploits stretched from the Vietnam to Desert Storm.
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Keeping Watch in Phu Bai, South Vietnam
Pfc. Paul L. Alberts of Charleston, West Virginia, B Company, 307th Medical Battalion, 3rd […]
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The Medical Device That Saved a Million Lives — and Became a TV Scene Stealer
Owen Wagensteen came up with a simple but effective apparatus that made abdominal surgery a less deadly proposition.
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Jesse James’ Greatest Failure
When “Minnesota nice” beat the country’s most notorious gang.
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Young Jesse James As a Guerrilla
Before he was an infamous outlaw, James and Frank James were implicated in a massacre of Union soldiers.
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How a Canadian Pilot Earned Britain’s Highest Honor in World War I
Alan McLeod received the Victoria Cross after a fateful encounter with one of the Red Baron’s teammates.
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‘Toccoa Men’ Paratrooper Dead at 101
“Pee Wee” Martin parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The Toccoa Men were featured in HBO’s “Band of Brothers.”
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Paul Garber: Smithsonian Historian, Kite Flyer
During World War II, Navy commander Paul E. Garber displays a Mark I kite […]
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Britain’s Greatest General: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
The colorful life of John Churchill, the first duke of Marlborough, examined.
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Book Review: ‘The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis’
British historian Stephen P. Kershaw takes on the Greeks.