Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

New Orleans Moves To Relocate Confederacy Monuments, Judge Rules: OK

The southern US city of New Orleans is planning to remove four historical Confederacy monuments that were originally built to commemorate the secessionist American states…

Doctor Seeks Funding To Recover B-24 Photo Queen

A doctor from New Jersey has been searching for a missing World War Two plane that crashed in New Guinea during the war, and it…

SAS Legend & Mountaineer John ‘Brummie’ Stokes Dies

John ‘Brummie’ Stokes was both a gentleman and a man’s man.  He was born in 1945 in the village of Hamstead near Birmingham.  His parents…

The A10 Warthog Will Not Be Retired After All!

Known to its many admirers as ‘The Warthog’, the US Air Force’s A10 Thunderbolt is essentially a flying gun. The A10 carries the 30mm GAU-8…

The Raid: The Failed Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

Shortly after 2:00 am on the morning of November 21, 1970, the night sky near Hanoi was shattered by the roar of planes on their…

WWI: The Tragic Moment a Man Was Ordered To Kill His Best Friend

Private Jimmy Smith joined the British army to fight and protect his country. But after fighting gallantly at Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 and the Battle…

The Day The Royal Marines Accidentally Launched An Amphibious Invasion of Spain

In 2002, a unit of 30 British Marines  in a landing craft from the Royal Navy’s amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean, armed to the teeth, stormed onto a…

Spanish Court Orders Exhumation of Civil War Victim

The Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 was a classic struggle between Nationalist and Republican supporters. Spain had been in a state of turmoil since the…

Vietnam Vets relive Loaches and Cameraderie.

Early in November 2014, ten silver-haired warriors gathered at the Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort in Palmetto Dunes on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for…

WOW! High School Football Game Stopped Because US student Wanted To Thank World War Two Veterans

A student from a Louisiana high school stopped a game of football at the school because he wanted to thank the World War Two veterans…

The North Korean Mystery Town In The Demilitarized Zone

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea has long become synonymous with the battle between east and west. However, a mystery town has…

Trial of Former Nazi Medic From Auschwitz To Start in March

58 years ago, the German government founded the Centre for Solving Crimes of National Socialism, an organization dedicated to tracking down and prosecuting Nazi war…