Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

The Remarkable Story of a Downed P-47 Pilot and the French Family That Took Him In

Lonnie Moseley was 23 years old when he took off in his P-47 Thunderbolt on the morning of July 4, 1944. It was only his…

Room Discovered Which May Have Belonged to Thomas Jefferson’s Alleged Lover, Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson is rumored to have had six children with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. Recently, archaeologists studying a description of Hemings’ room determined…

SOE Yvonne Burney, The Highly Decorated War Hero Who Survived a Nazi Death Camp

In October of 2017 one of the most decorated of Great Britain’s Special Operations Executive agents and survivor of Ravensbrück concentration camp, Yvonne Burney passed…

Remembering the Reporter Who Dared Confront Emperor Hirohito

Koji Nakamura is the reporter who deserves a place in history simply for asking Emperor Hirohito one question. Instead, he has been all but forgotten.…

Amazingly Detailed D-Day Documents and Photos Sold in Auction

More than seventy years after World War II, a dossier of reconnaissance pictures and intelligence documents used to prepare for the D-Day invasion on Gold…

Nazi Death Camp Guard brought to trial for crimes committed at Lublin-Majdanek

In an effort to right some of the wrongs done during the Holocaust German prosecutors have been working around the clock to try and bring…

“WW2’s Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails” – A new television series showcasing 4 daring escapes during WWII

Channel 4, the British public service television station, has created a new series showcasing four of the most amazing escapes undertaken by British prisoners of…

Irma Grese – The Blonde Beast of Birkenau and the Most Sadistic Woman in Nazi Germany

The atrocities committed by the Schutzstaffel, or SS guards, at Nazi death camps are well documented.  Men like Josef Vogel, Gottfried Weise and Herman Wagner,…

Fox News Forced to Retract Story About Retired Navy Veteran Who Lied About Being a SEAL

Fox News ran a story on October 8, 2017, about John Garofalo, 72. He claimed to be an ex-Navy SEAL with several medals and decorations.…

US Veteran Returns Japanese Flag To Family Of Fallen WWII Soldier

In 2012, Marvin Strombo was put in touch with the Obon Society. The non-profit organization out of Oregon connects US veterans with Japanese families so…

The Calm Before The Storm – What Patton Read On The Way To World War II

Seventy-seven years ago, Gen. George S. Patton’s biggest problem was boredom. The Army general was on a ship, the USS Augusta, in the Atlantic Ocean…

The Jewish Avengers: A Nazi’s Worst Nightmare, They Tried to Poison Hundreds of Nazi Prisoners After WWII

“What is Zionism? Zionism is the Jews taking their fate into their own hands and not letting the others dictate our fate,” so said Dina…