Ian Harvey

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

Articles by Ian Harvey:

JFK’s Journal for Sale: Reveals Shocking Secrets

Some controversial passages in a diary written by former American President John F. Kennedy have recently come to light. The diary’s shocking entries were made…

Remains of WWII Pilot Recovered from Pacific Ocean

The remains of a US pilot shot down over the Pacific during WWII, were discovered with his plane near Ngerekebesang Island in the Republic of…

MI6 Recognizes Work of Spy who Saved 10,000 Jews in WWII

Frank Foley was as far from James Bond as it is possible to get. Mild-mannered, slightly overweight, and wearing glasses, he looked more like a…

Algerian Jews Finally Eligible for Compensation from Germany

Jews have been persecuted all over the world, including in one of Africa’s lesser-known countries, Algeria. The Germans have recently begun to regard Algerian Jews…

The 110th Infantry Holds the Line

By August 1944, the tide of WWII had long since turned for the Third Reich. They had been summarily ousted from their previously dominant position…

Remembering the Dominator: Forgotten Plane of WWII

The most expensive weapons program conducted by the US military during WWII was not the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb. That distinction belongs…

Veterans at Risk of Deportation despite Serving their Country

When Manuel Jesus Valenzuela was eighteen, he knew he wanted to serve his country, so he enlisted in the US Marines. In 1971, many young…

SOE Group Created Convincing Forgeries in WWII

During WWII Britain set up a team of forgers in an Essex country house. That team cranked out perfect counterfeit identification documents for spies in…

Police find WWI Soldier’s Family through Twitter

On May 27, 1915, a French soldier wrote a letter to his friend Jean Audriffen. In the letter, Sergeant Jean Soulagnes requested that his friend…

Code-Breaking Machines Were Not Destroyed After WWII As Previously Believed

It had long been thought that Alan Turing’s innovative code-breaking machines were destroyed after the end of WWII. Recently, however, documents have been discovered showing…

Spanish Dictator’s Train In Need Of Repair

For the last thirty years, Franco’s train has been sitting in an old railway station in the north of Spain. It has been waiting to…

Millions Who Went Missing In WWII Will Remain Lost Forever

Millions of casualties were incurred during WWII, but what about those who disappeared without a trace? There are more than a million people unaccounted for…