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The Chicken-Powered Nuke: Inside Britain's Bizarre Cold War Secret

In the 1950s, the British Ministry of Supply developed Project Blue Peacock, a top-secret plan using nuclear landmines designed to be detonated in Germany to stop a Soviet inv...

The Whisky War: 49 Years of Good-Natured, Bloodless Conflict

“War,” as the legendary Civil War General William Tecumsah Sherman so eloquently put it, “is hell.” And boy, was he right. Like, 99.99% of the time. Because sometimes, very, VERY rarely, wars act...

The Hello Girls of WWI Were More Than Just Telephone Operators

There are World War I stories that often go unnoticed. The "Hello Girls" were among the first American women to serve with the U.S. Army overseas. As an official part of the U.S. Army Signal Co...

The Exploding Rats of WWII: How a Failed Sabotage Plot Sparked Nazi Panic

Every Veteran knows the military has a gift for solving problems in ways no sane civilian would ever propose. But even by that standard, wartime Britain set a bar that has rarely been cleared since: dead rats, stuffed with plastic explosive, sewn shut, and shipped to occupied Europe.

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From Purple Heart Lane to Bloody Gulch: The Brutal Battle of Carentan

June 6th, 1944. D-Day. The Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy, dubbed Operation Overlord, was the largest seaborne assault in military history. It marked the beginning of the campaign that, in conjunction with the So...