Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Nazi World War Two Items Are Worth A Lot

South America is well-known to have been a post-World War Two Nazi hideout, as hundreds of Germans fled Europe to escape punishment from the Allies…

Dutch Man Cared for Grave of American Paratrooper Since He Was 13

A new film is being made about a Dutch man who has tended the grave of a West Virginian World War Two soldier for more…

Untold Story of British Marines’ Heroism on the Eve of Falklands War

More often than not history repeats itself in a variety of different fashions as it did for British forces in a very short and less…

The Mystery of the Wellington Crash in 1941 Eventually Solved

There is no scarcity of lost and found stories of the last moments of thousands of Allied and German soldiers during the Second World War.…

Best of the Cold War Military Technology

During the Cold War, both the Soviet Union and the US were in a military race to out-do each other, and military technology developments during…

Argentinian Soldiers’ Ordeal during the Falklands War

The dynamics of the war and conflicts are such multi façade that one could not grasp the phenomenon in its entirety. A very less known…

French Farmland Still Contaminated By WW1 Shells

According to an Official French Press release, a large area of northern French farmland has been banned from selling any produce until some guarantees are…

The Images of German U-Boats are Revealing and Strange

The images are eerie and ghostly to put them mildly, depicting the cramped and hostile conditions of the First World War’s most deadly ‘killing machine’.…

The Legacy of Catalina and Lake Boga Base of ‘Black Cats’ During WW2

Catalina

[Via] The nature of the Second World War was such that every nation and empire involved in the conflict threw in everything everything to win the…

CIA Publishes Classified Documents Revealing New Insights Into The Six Day War

Six Day War

[Via] At the opening of the famous Six Day war between Israel and a number of Arab countries in June 1967, the initial announcement issued…

These 5 Songs Were About The Vietnam War, Did You Know That?

Over the years war stories have been told through movies, theater, books and even songs. The 1960s brought with it musicians who wanted to voice…

WWII Catalina aircraft wreckage confirmed

Official confirmation issued by the Royal Australian Air Force confirms that the wreckage discovered in the waters near Cairns belong to Number 11 Squadron’s Catalina…