Dakota Blues or “Celebrating 80 years of the DC-3 Maiden flight”? by Hans Wiesman
The C-47 Fuselage was displayed in the Ardennes forest for a war movie. In the past years, we have seen a larger number of DC-3’s…
Dan Snow: Live Spitfire dig starts tomorrow 10 July 2015!!! Don’t miss it.
When German Field Marshal von Manstein was questioned by the Soviets after World War Two he told his angry interrogators that the most decisive battle…
Ghosts of the Gooney Bird Volume 3 – By Hans Wiesman
In my previous Blogs Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, I showed pictures of crashed , lost and derelict Douglas C-47’s/ DC-3’s/ Dakotas. Most of them…
‘How Good We’ve Got It’ – Wardsville Veteran Shares Story Of Service During Vietnam War
War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jeremy P. Ämick, who is a military historian and writes on behalf of the Silver Star…
Guest Blogger Geoff Moore: WAR CEMETERY IN YANGON
Although now 70 years ago the often then fierce jungle battles of the Burma campaign are in fact now virtually a lifetime in the past. But…
MUST READ: 42 amazing images from a dive onto U89 by Dr Innes McCarthy the U Boat hunter
Amazing images from Dr Innes McCartney – the condition of this wreck is incredible. U89 survived just over six months in service before it sunk…
‘We were inseparable’ Missouri Marine killed in Vietnam remembered by friends and family
By Jeremy P. Amick Though many decades have passed since Corporal John Allen Campbell lost his life while serving with the Marine Corps in Vietnam,…
Dc-3, Icon of Victory. Part 2, D-Day+6, Top Brass flies into Normandy’s Advanced Landing Ground
On D-Day+6, 12 June 1944, the Allied forces have settled on the Normandy Beach heads, with artificial Sea Ports and Advanced Landing Grounds (ALG’s). See…
DC-3, Icon of Victory, by Hans Wiesman
Just 3 days after the 6th of June 1944, USAAF Engineers achieved the unthinkable. Right next to Omaha Beach on the Normandy coast at Saint…
Geoff Moore: ESTONIA SEAPLANE HARBOUR MUSEUM
Although called the Seaplane Harbour Museum this centre encompasses a wider scope of maritime items than just seaplanes for example and that submarine which appears…
‘Restoring a memory’ Civil War soldier receives memorial headstone 141 years after death
By Jeremy P. Ämick As noted in the book “Germans in the Civil War” by Walter Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich, German Americans made up one…
Guest blogger Dan Snow: Dunkirk – Day by Day 1 June 1940
Dan Snow gives us a day by day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII. On 1 June 1940 64,000 men manage to…