The frontiersman was but the most famous of the handful of Tennessee Mounted Volunteers at the site.

As World War II neared, Laura Ingalls took to the skies in the name of U.S. isolationism—and in support of Nazi Germany.

Was the December 1972 bombing of Hanoi a great victory that brought "peace with honor"? Or was it a blunder that cost South Vietnam its freedom?

Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler cleans up and clamps down on the rebellious Crescent City.

The first air raid on the German capital was carried out at night by an antiquated French bomber.

Before they became a dessert staple, pies were a treasured table companion for kings and commoners alike. But in the right hands, they were also an effective weapon.

The "Stalingrad of World War I" was an epic bloodletting between the million-man armies of Russia and the inept Habsburg Empire.

An engineering triumph developed under strict wartime secrecy, the proximity fuze vastly increased the lethality of anti-aircraft guns and field artillery.

Despite the Union’s victory, Jubal Early still haunted the Shenandoah Valley.

From the Brewster Buffalo to the Me-210, here are the fighter planes that belong in the WW2 hall of shame.