In March 1945, an American heavy tank faced a German Panther in the ruins of a shattered city. Corporal Clarence Smooyer and ...

Around 50,000 American soldiers were taken out by the cold alone during the Battle of the Bulge. Discover how winter became America's deadliest enemy in 1944.

The Nazis didn’t look at America as a backwards country; they looked at us as a teacher. They saw that our most prestigious ...

It’s not often that a general writes a parent about a son, but that is what happened. Lena Wolverton received a letter from Lt. General George C. Kenney, commander of ...

Despite the Abrams tank’s advanced age and increasing vulnerability to threats such as drones, it has been kept relevant on the modern battlefield by repeated upgrades.

A tour of the heaviest military machines ever built, from super-heavy tanks and rail guns to record-setting bombers, submarines, battleships, and modern aircraft carriers—each compared to the weight ...

Movies like Kajaki and Defiance capture the sheer intensity of armed conflict but remain hidden gems of the war genre that ...

Newburyport’s Jacob Joseph and his brother John Spencer Joseph, both served in Vietnam with the US Army, John as a draftee, serving in country as a military dog handler, Jacob ...

This is the story of one man’s tireless mission to create a fitting memorial to a forgotten wartime tragedy. In the early hours of April 28 1944 nine German torpedo boats attacked a convoy of American ...

The first production turbocharged car revolutionized the automotive industry, but ultimately failed due to its ...

The infantry's history to 250 years of U.S. military standard-issue weapons, from the smoothbore musket to the M7 rifle ...