Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Is This 112 Year old Auschwitz Survivor The Oldest Person Alive?

During the Second World War, more people died in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz than the combined total number of American and British losses.…

Britain’s First Black Army Officer Honoured On Commemorative Coin

Walter Daniel John Tull was born in Folkestone in South-East England on 28th April 1888.  Walter’s father Daniel Tull, a carpenter, had come to England…

America’s World War I Memorial Design – Winner To Be Announced Soon

The United States maintained a policy of strict neutrality, following the outbreak of the First World War. President Woodrow Wilson believed he could negotiate a…

2005, When The World’s First Fully Restored Halifax Went On Display

The sight was mesmerizing, when in 2005, a crowd of some 1,400 veterans and World War enthusiasts witnessed the unveiling of the world’s very first fully…

The Short Life of the Anti-tank Rifle – the Browning M2 and Others

Armored tanks were first used on a large scale during World War One. It didn’t take long after their appearance on the battlefield for arms…

WWI Canary Babies Were Borne Yellow Because Their Mothers Worked As Munitionettes

The last surviving ‘Canary Babies’ have told their story of how their skin was a tinge of yellow after their mothers worked in explosives factories…

World War II Veteran To Reunite With Wartime Girlfriend

Just before daybreak on 6th June 1944, men of the US 101st Airborne Division parachuted into the French countryside, about five miles inland from a…

Hitler’s Kamikaze V1 Meant to Destroy London

There is much to be said about the mind of Hitler. He was certainly a madman with insanely ingenious ideas that shored up his short-lived…

Thousands of tons of unexploded Second World War bombs in Germany

German bomb-disposal experts are the busiest in the world. Each year they deal with more than 2,000 tons of high explosives – mainly Second World…

RAF Veteran On Stand-by With Vulcan Bomber During Cuban Missile Crisis

A Royal Air Force veteran has claimed to have been aboard a plane carrying atomic weapon during the Cuban Missile Crisis Geoff Bainbridge joined the…

Restored Military Equipment Presented to US National Museum

Having been painstakingly restored to their former glory, a couple of interesting historical relics that have seen U.S. war action have been presented to a…

Remembering the Battle of Jutland

Very rarely one witnesses the event like the one that is planned by the British and German Naval authorities to be held next year. Warships…