Ian Harvey

Ian Harvey is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Forgotten World War II Heroes – The Lincolnshire Bombers Finally Get Recognition

The English city of Lancaster in NW England near the River Lune may soon be hosting large numbers of tourists.  A sculpture being planned to…

North Korean Death Ships Washing Ashore in Japan

Recently, Japan has seen a number of North Korean commercial fishing vessels along the one thousand mile long west coast of Japan that have been…

Video Surfaces Of US Woman Carla de Vries Kissing Hitler at 1936 Olympics

At the Berlin Olympics in 1936, Carla de Vries waited until after the men’s 1500m freestyle race and then approached Adolf Hitler to ask for…

Amazing Pics – Monstrous In Size, And Derelict For Decades, The Nazi-Era Resort Of Prora Finds New Life in Germany

Prora was intended to be the world’s largest tourist resort. The Nazi party began construction on the nearly three-mile long grouping of blocks of buildings…

US Presidents Visit Normandy On The D-Day Anniversary, But President Eisenhower, Who Had Commanded The Allied Forces On That Fateful Day, Stayed Away On The 10th Anniversary

Former US President Barack Obama spoke on the battleground of Normandy to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that led to the Allied…

Irv Refkin – The American Jewish Hero Who Spied For The Allied Forces In World War II

Many of the oldest living heroes of World War II are beginning to pass away.  In 2017 alone, Joy Lofthouse, one of the few women…

Notes From A Holocaust Survivor Found In Auschwitz Have Been Deciphered And Translated Into English

In 1944, Sonderkommando Marcel Nadjari kept records of his activities in Auschwitz-Birkenau, including a remarkably accurate number of those killed in the gas chambers. He…

This Sinister Revisionist In Japan Is Trying To Sanitize The Heartbreaking History Of Okinawa’s WWII Forced Suicides

A recent nationalist movement in Japan seems to be trying to sanitize the history of Japan during World War II, much to the concern of…

Team Makes 3-D Map of WWII Plane Wreck in British Channel

The plane was discovered in 2014 by Grahame Knott. His company, Deeper Dorset, looks for shipwrecks and plane wrecks in the waters around the south…

Retired Marine reunited with his M1 Garand after 56 years

Marine recruit Pat Farmer was assigned the weapon at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego in 1960.  He signed the receipt card for…

Jewish Lawyer Foiled Nazi Plans in LA During WWII

Captain John H. Schmidt worked for a Jewish lawyer named Leon Lewis. Lewis set up a spy network on his own, without support from the…

Live Bombs From World War II Still Being Discovered in Belgium

Of the millions of bombs that fell in Western Europe during World War I many still lie quietly underground rusting away until someone finds them. …