Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Soldier Missing in Action for 72 Years to Return Home

A 97-year-old man in Minnesota who waited 72 years for his younger brother to return home from World War II may finally get his wish…

Mike Durant (Black Hawk Down) – Not an Ordinary Man

On first meeting Michael J. Durant, you would find him a pleasant, ordinary, American, family man. He enjoys playing ice hockey and is also dynamic…

The Notorious Andersonville Confederate POW Camp Where 13,000 Died and Henry Wirz

“Hang Him” and “Remember Andersonville” were epithets screamed by former Union prisoners of war at the hanging, on 10th November 1895, of one of America’s…

Veterans who Fought in Vietnam War Find Peace Living in the Very Villages they Fought in

While many think that men who serve in war would be ecstatic to finally come home, that is not the case with some. During the…

American WWII Pilot Attends Reopening of American Air Museum in England

The 91-year-old Bill Toombs still recalls the sight of 2,000 warplanes over Europe during the D-Day landings in June 1944. “You will never see that…

Swiss Bunkers take on a new lease on life

Switzerland that famously neutral country, situated slap-bang in the middle of Europe, has not fought a war in over two hundred years. This fact has…

Medals from World War I and II Found in Riverbank, Returned to Family

Two people picking up litter found a cash box along the River Loddon in Berkshire, England. They found something that usually belongs in a museum…

WW2 veteran, Code Talker and chief of the Fort Belknap Assiniboine tribe dies at age 92

Gilbert Horn, Sr. was born in Great Falls, Montana, on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in 1923. To escape the poverty of the reservation, he…

The Father of the A-10 Warthog Remembered With Missing Man Formation

A rare flyover occurred at Arlington National Cemetery in March as four A-10s saluted Col. (Ret.) Avery Kay. Kay died on October 29th 2015 and…

Historic Guernsey Fort for sale – Bring £2 million

The island of Guernsey, situated off the coast of Normandy is a British Crown Dependency. It is not a part of the British Isles but…

How SS Commando Skorzeny Became an Assassin for Israel

German scientist Heinz Krug vanished on September 11, 1962. Krug was at his office, and then he was gone without ever returning home. The only…

New Documents Reveal Cannibalism Took Place at Nazi Concentration Camps

During Harold Le Druillenec’s time at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, it was his job to throw bodies into graves. The Briton from the Jersey, in…