Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

Spanish Divers Find Lost “Gut Holz” U-Boat off Galician Coast

For over 70 years, a German submarine, U-966 (nicknamed “Gut Holz”), has lain quietly under the sea off the coast of Galicia in the northwest…

Justin LeHew: US Marine Corps Hero of the Battle of Nasiriyah

US Marines standing around a damaged Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV) + Military portrait of Justin LeHew

One wrong turn can be all it takes to turn a regular soldier into a hero. The US Army’s 507th Maintenance Company took that wrong…

Romania Narrowly Avoided Getting Bombed by the Soviets

On the 77th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Russia published secret documents from the Second World War including an order dated…

Leading the Way – US Ranger Awarded Medal of Honor

Staff Sgt. Leroy Petry was on foot patrol with soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, near Paktya Province, Afghanistan, in 2008. He was…

Korean War MIA Soldiers Remains Coming Home

At the beginning of June, the President of the USA, Donald Trump, met with the North Korean Leader, Kim Jong-Un, for a series of talks…

Desert Storm – 1st Gulf War Gets Its Own Memorial

The National Mall in downtown Washington contains different memorials to every war that the United States has been involved in. Included are the memorial to…

The Sack of Cádiz: The Cost of War

On the 3rd of June, 1596, the Anglo-Dutch fleet set sail under the command of Charles Howard and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Wessex.  The…

War & Peace – Is Man Prone to War Naturally?

An ongoing debate exists as to whether humans are innately aggressive creatures prone to warfare and violence, or if they only become that way as…

Chesty Puller: The Quintessential Marine

If “the most decorated U.S. Marine” sounds to you like the kind of superlative statement that belongs in the script of a badly-written video game,…

Conquest or Myth – Questioning Cortez and the Spaniards in Mexico

There are few historical “facts” about the history of the settlement of North America that can be accepted without secondary scrutiny – in fact, it…

B-17 Wreckage Discovered in English Channel Forces Rerouting of Undersea Cable

The 1GW Nemo cable being placed at the bottom of the English Channel will need to be rerouted after the discovery of a World War…

How did Hitler Dismantle the German Republic? Could it Happen Again?

The rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) involved many factors.  The combination of the economic depression that occurred…