Astronaut Sally K. Ride, Ph.D., the first American woman to fly into space, died on July 23, 2012, at her …

All the nations involved in World War II practiced food rationing. It was particularly severe in Great Britain because unlike …

Beginning late in 2011, U.S. Army Special Forces (SF – the Green Berets) began to celebrate a special event from …

As the name would imply, the world of American special operations forces (SOF) has been filled with extraordinary men, who …

With the bicentennial commemorations of the War of 1812 ongoing there is sure to be a wave of books covering …

We all know that Man’s Best Friend has a history of military service, but many Americans may not recall that …

Long after World War II, former B-26 Marauder medium bomber pilot Jim Vining was in a room with Adolf Galland, …

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (“Swallow”), also called the Sturmvogel (“Stormbird”) in its fighter-bomber version, was the world’s first operational …

In mid-1942, President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrestled with a stark – and embarrassing – fact. Of …

The Grumman XF10F-1 Jaguar fighter of the 1950s would have been a brilliant mistake if the thinking behind it had …