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Athenian Hoplites: An Overlooked Part Of Athens’ Success In The Ancient World

Ancient warfare has been heavily analyzed by scholars and has made waves in movies such as 300. However, popular culture and scholarly studies tend to…

How World War II Spurred The Creation Of The Flu Vaccine

Soldiers in hospital beds + a portrait of Thomas Francis Jr.

It’s hard to imagine a time when vaccines didn’t exist. However, up until the Second World War, they were few and far between. It wasn’t…

Treasure Hunter Claims To Have Found Legendary Lost Gold Train

Ilmensee-Express train + Piotr Koper + a pile of gold

Treasure hunter Piotr Koper has announced he’s possibly uncovered the legendary Nazi gold train at the bottom of a lake. After more than a decade…

USS Midway Museum Takes Delivery Of Its Freshly Restored A-7 Corsair II

A7 Corsair on the deck of USS Midway Museum, 2011.

In early June, the USS Midway Museum took delivery of an A-7 Corsair II that has recently finished a thorough restoration. The aircraft, on loan…

The Battle of Los Angeles: The Enemy Attack That Never Happened

Los Angeles Times newspaper clipping of the Battle of Los Angeles

The United States entered WWII after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The bombing put the entire nation on high alert, and…

Sailor Who Died At Pearl Harbor Identified 79 Years Later

The remains of U.S. Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Alphard Stanley Owsley have been identified 79 years after he perished during the Japanese attack on…

5 Facts About The Siege Of Tobruk That Show Hope Is Never Lost

As the only deepwater port in Eastern Libya, Tobruk was strategically important to all combatants involved in North Africa. Before British forces arrived in Tobruk,…

The Highs And Lows Of The Czech Panzer 38(t)

Tanks are often thought as a technology of the First World War, but the Czech Panzer 38(t) played a major role in some of the…

US Veterans Excavate The Wreckage Of A B-24 Liberator In Sussex

U.S. Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24D Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group flying in formation, circa in 1943.

A team has gathered in Sussex, England, to recover the bodies of two airmen who were lost in a violent crash in the British countryside…

Little-Known Facts About the Hit Korean War Series ‘M*A*S*H’

Promotional image for 'M*A*S*H'

The popular television show M*A*S*H (1972-83) was the result of a collaboration between former military surgeon H. Richard Hornberger and writer W.C. Heinz, to create…

Statistician Abraham Wald’s Counterintuitive Insight Saved Lives

Abraham Wald was a Hungarian mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of statistical analysis in the first half of the 20th century. One…

US Army Looking At New Long-Range Missiles For Their Apache Helicopters

An AH-64 Apache helicopter hovers in front of the sun and conducts movement drills as part of a maintenance test flight in Kunduz province, Afghanistan

The U.S. Army is on the hunt for a new long-range air-to-ground missile for their AH-64 Apaches. Advancements in air defenses over recent years have…