Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Dunkirk Yacht Used By Churchill Up For Sale For €2m

A luxury yacht used in the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War Two is being put up for sale for €2 million. The yacht is…

Watch Atomic Annie, The Nuclear Artillery Cannon, Fire A Nuclear Shell

In the early 1950s, nuclear weapons development and nuclear testing was a key priority for the US and the Soviet Union. It was a race…

Pacifist WWII Veteran Fired from Remembrance Day Parade

George Evans, aged 92, of Wellington, Shropshire, has been part of the town’s Remembrance Day parade for the past twenty-five years. The veteran of the…

Lease Cancelled Of Company That Failed To Turn Hitler’s Wolfs Lair Into A Tourist Attraction

The rich, if somewhat infamous, history of Hitlers bunker complex makes it a prime tourist attraction to this day and this little corner of Poland attracts…

New World War Two bombing map shows Blitz devastation

A new Ordnance Survey bombing map produced in the UK has been released showing the exact locations of all the bombs dropped by the German…

Nazi Hunters Work On Their Last Active Case In The US

Jakiw Palij lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City and is thought to have been a Nazi guard at one of the regime’s concentration…

An Oklahoma 101st Airborne Airborne Veteran Remembers Bastogne

Veteran James Ahrend was a combat engineer with the 101st Airborne Division. Several years ago he went to Washington, D.C. to see the National World…

Valentine’s day sale of Napoleon’s marriage contract

Napolean Bonaparte was born in Corsica – at that time ruled by the French – in 1769. Napoleon’s parents were comfortably off, but by no…

Japanese Soldiers Cannibalised US Airmen On Chichi Jima, WWII

The Japanese island of Chichi Jima lies in the Pacific Ocean, about 150 miles north of Iwo Jima. At 24 square kilometres, it is the…

Armored Personnel Carrier Converted Into Funeral Hearse For Veterans

Military veterans are being given a new option to travel to their final resting place. Military enthusiast, Nick Mead, has spent half a year on…

Strange Cluster of Ruined Buildings Was to Be Hitler’s Californian Base

Set in the hills on the outskirts of Los Angeles, in a quiet valley in the Will Rogers Historic Park, is the unlikeliest of sights.…

Hermann Goering’s Brother Righteous Among the Nations?

The accolade ‘Righteous among the Nations’ is awarded by the State and people of Israel to non-Jewish individuals who risked their lives to rescue Jews…