Gary Villalobos describes having to conduct sweeps and raids in insurgent-held Tal Afar and the perilous nature of having to cover buildings and alleys with little to no armored protection.

Philip Hollywood, a USN sailor aboard the destroyer the USS Melvin recounts the beginning of the massive naval battle against the Japanese at Surigao Strait.

Tony Nadal recounts leading an assault at LZ X-Ray during the Battle of Ia Drang and having to call in smoke to help conceal his company's movements because they were so exposed.

Battlefield conditions in Vietnam were unique and challenging so the US approached warfare there differently by its heavy use of the air cavalry and by implementing a strategy of search and destroy.

As part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, US Navy ships at Surigao Strait were situated in an ideal position whereby they could deliver punishing broadsides at Japanese ships which could only fire their bow guns.

Situated in northwestern Iraq, Tal Afar had become a hotbed of unrest and insurgent activity by the time US and Iraqi forces launched an offensive to fight the insurgents while trying to win the hearts and minds of the residents of Tal Afar.

As part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, US Navy ships at Surigao Strait were situated in an ideal position whereby they could deliver punishing broadsides at Japanese ships which could only fire their bow guns.

Battlefield conditions in Vietnam were unique and challenging so the US approached warfare there differently by its heavy use of the air cavalry and by implementing a strategy of search and destroy.

In 1932 Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell mounted a simulated attack on Pearl Harbor utilizing carrier-based airplanes to expose how vulnerable it was to a carrier-borne attack. The Japanese took notice.

George Washington was preceded by several other Presidents of the United States.

Paul Revere has been billed as America?s first action hero after his famous "Midnight Ride" but as truth would have it, he was part of a network.

There are many misconceptions surrounding our understanding of General George Armstrong Custer and his final campaign against the Plains Indians but the actual facts are more compelling than the fiction.

The Articles of Confederation proved to be more trouble than help, with individual states all pushing their interests and agendas, to the point of threatening the country as a whole.

Such were his powers of organization and logistics, Dwight Eisenhower was always kept away from combat because he made others better and more well-prepared for it.

Our vision of Paul Revere's midnight ride is all wrong, especially how it concludes.

Witness how childhood boredom escalated into the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials.

When one thinks of America's first amusement ride Coney Island comes to mind, but another ride in Pennsylvania was attracting large crowds of thrill-seekers a decade before.

A small anecdote from the crossing of the Mayflower to America reveals that an indentured servant, John Howland was swept off the deck of the ship during a storm, and that had he not been saved US history would have taken a different turn.

There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.

Halloween in the early-to-mid-20th century was not a sweet nor pleasant holiday, but an excuse for pranks and general mischief.

The negative characterization of Edgar Allan Poe as a paranoid drug addict with the darkest of minds can be traced back to one man who was a rival of Poe's. There is no proof of drugs and his "darkness" is only inferred because of the scary stori ...

There are several facts and fictions associated with New York City's Empire State Building, like that one about a penny dropped from the top having the ability to kill someone on the sidewalk.