An aviation electronics technician describes his experiences aboard Lockheed Warning Stars that flew into the heart of typhoons during the Vietnam War.
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Civil War Anesthesia Wasn’t Just a Slug of Whiskey: Inside the New 19th-Century Science of Battlefield Painkillers
Anesthesia helped ease the ordeal of sick and wounded soldiers on both sides facing amputation or surgery
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Special Operations Legend John Singlaub Has Died at the Age of 100
Retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub was a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and legendary special operator
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How a Rare ‘Flying W’ Airplane Supplied Uranium for the Manhattan Project
The Eldorado Radium Silver Express, a restored Bellanca Aircruiser, will soon be on view at a new museum in western Canada
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This Union Veterans’ Post Was Shut for 50 Years. Turns Out, It’s an Amazing Repository of Civil War Stories.
Veteran “war sketches” offer a unique glimpse of soldier experience during and after the conflict.
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Americans Had Only Seconds To Escape A V-1 Flying Bomb in London’s Sloane Court
When a German V-1 flying bomb struck Sloane Court, it marked the worst incidence of loss of life for American servicemen due to a V-1 blast in World War II
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No Man Left Behind: A Union Soldier Risked it All To Save Wounded Comrades
“The daring of this man,” Captain Frank Donaldson later wrote about Lemuel Crocker’s Shepherdstown heroism, “is without precedent”
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Transporting Troops And Evacuating Babies, Pan Am Was in Vietnam From Beginning To End
Pan American World Airways was part of major historical events that engulfed the United States during the Vietnam War
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Showdown on Lake Erie: An Eyewitness Recalls ‘the Second War of Independence’
In 1813 Samuel R. Brown took part in a key battle in what he called “the Second War of Independence”
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How Quick Thinking Saved the First Airliner to Break the Sound Barrier
In August 1961 a crew of Douglas Aircraft test pilots proved the new DC-8’s worth by diving it through the speed of sound