On Sept. 4, 2006, Patrick Murray’s Humvee rolled over a roadside bomb in Fallujah, Iraq, while he was serving with...
Everyone, it seems, is familiar with highways constructed by the ancient Romans. Those elegant, stone-paved roads pop up as supporting...
French-born Gervais Raoul Lufbery (who makes an appearance in Aviation History‘s feature about the Nieuport 28 ) lived a peripatetic...
In 1987, Congress officially designated March as Women’s History Month to commemorate, learn about, and reflect on women who have...
For a brief window in the 1930s, Poland’s PZL P.11 monoplane was considered the most advanced fighter in the world....
When the Soviet Union began to build up and modernize its military in the early 1930s, it turned to a...
Squire E. Howard awoke before dawn on October 19, 1864, to what he thought was thunder. The clamor, though, wasn’t...
In a discussion of life on the Western frontier relatively few women pop to mind. Even the well-known phrase “Go...
In the 1976 war film Shout at the Devil, based on the best-selling 1968 novel by Wilbur Smith and starring...
John Sidney “Slew” McCain defied the image of the senior naval officer. Bony, wizened, with a hooked nose and sunken...