Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Missing WWII bomber crew finally buried together

The remains of five men, who were part of the crew of an RAF Lancaster shot down over Germany over 70 years ago have finally…

New Documentary Reveals Secret Operation To Supply New Israel with Weapons To Prevent Second Holocaust

A professor at Penn State University in the U.S. has made a new documentary which uncovers a previously unknown secret operation to prevent a second…

Tensions increase between Europe and Russia

Europe and Russia

Since the civil war in the Ukraine began 2014, tensions between the NATO countries and Russia have increased. Now, the United States, as part of the…

Divers and Historians Find WWII B-17 Bomber’s Gravesite

In a series of events that sounds like the plot of an adventure-action movie, a group of amateur divers who call themselves the “Shadows of…

Hitler’s Mein Kampf Returns To German Book Shops

Mein Kampf has been variously described as a series of rants, or a stream of consciousness. Hitler didn’t write the book in the accepted sense…

China hands over World War Two US crew remains

The US Navy has been handed-over three World War Two US crew remains. The handover took place on China’s one and only aircraft carrier whereby…

Search for US and Japanese MIA remains on Saipan

The Second World War battle of Saipan took place between 15 June–9 July 1944. The battle has been described as one of the most important…

German WWII atrocities in Greece

Italian troops attempted an invasion of Greece in October 1940, but the Greek army pushed the invaders back across the border into Albania. Germany intervened to…

Rumours That Churchill and British War-time Military Leaders Knew in Advance That Coventry was to be Blitzed Untrue

In the industrial midlands of England, close to Birmingham, lies the city of Coventry. Early in the Second World War, Coventry fell victim to a…

Secret Japanese WWII Submarine Rusting on Kiska Island

Stretching in an arc across the far northern Pacific Ocean, from Alaska in the east to Kamchatka in the west, and demarcating the Bering Sea…

South American Archives Confirm That Thousands of Nazis Fled There after the World War II

Recently-opened archives in some South American countries have shed new light on the extent of the wide-scale influx of Nazis into the Americas at the…

Japan’s film-makers continue to glorify World War Two

Recently Japan’s film-makers have produced a high number of World War Two military films. Probably because of the 70th anniversary commemorations for the end of…