Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

WWII Grave Site Reunion as Twins are Finally Together Again

According to their family, twins James and Michael Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Queens, New York City, and did absolutely everything in each…

Why You Can’t Take Selfies At Auschwitz

A British novelist and journalist, Anthony Horowitz, recently made a plea for the banning of self-photography – the taking of “selfies” – at the Auschwitz…

World War Two British and Japanese veterans come together for reconciliation

World War Two British and Japanese veterans have reconciled and shaken hands more than 70 years after the end of the war. The Japanese were…

Youngest Vietnam War US Marine Was 14 Years Old, He Was Killed In Action Age 15

The story of an underage US Marine who fought in the Vietnam War has been uncovered. Dan Bullock joined the US Marines so that he…

Hitler’s Last Residence, Fuhrerbunker, Went Unnoticed For 60 Years

Hitler’s Last Day

A parking lot now sits where Adolf Hitler’s Reich Chancellery once stood. It is long gone thanks to Soviet troops liberating Berlin marking the end…

USAAF Airmen of 487th BG Signed Wall of Suffolk Pub – Staff Now Tracing Them Back To US

From April 1944 to the end of the Second World War, 487th Bombardment Group operated from RAF Lavenham and visited the Swan pub in Suffolk,…

British actor, Richard Davies, dies aged 89

  British actor, Richard Davies, who starred in the movie Zulu, as well as many other British TV shows, has died at the age of…

Old Boeing Plant has Some Secrets from World War Two

Many know of the company Boeing and its history of building planes.  However, no one knew all of the secrets these specific plants held.  Seattle,…

Augusta Chiwy, The Hero Nurse From Band of Brothers, Dies Aged 94

Augusta Chiwy, a World War Two Belgian veteran nurse who saved the lives of numerous US Soldiers in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in…

Thomas Blatt, Survivor Who Escaped From Sobibor Nazi Concentration Camp, Passes away

Thomas Blatt , a well-known survivor of the Nazi Death Camp at Sobibor, has died at the age of 88. In WWII he was taken…

Youngest Soldier Of World War One is Revealed and Recognized for Bravery

One of the youngest soldiers recognized by historians today was known as the Boy Soldier during World War I.  A memorial of the boy was…

World War Two Plane Crash Remains are Finally Being Returned

After World War II was over in 1945, three men were making a routine supply run to Malaysia’s western coast.  Suddenly the C-47 Dakota completely…