The Wacko Story of Jumpin’ Joe Beyrle – The US Paratrooper who Served in a Soviet Tank Battalion a Hero of Two Nations
War sometimes creates strange circumstances. The following story is about a soldier who became a hero of two nations. Joseph Robert Beyrle was born on…
White Rose: The German Anti-Nazi Activists Who Were Beheaded In 1943
Across Germany and especially in Munich, the city where they were most active, people remember and honor, by naming streets, monuments, even a top literary…
Teddy Roosevelt & The Charge of the Rough Riders at the Battle of San Juan Heights
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders had been taking fire all morning. They were pinned down, lying flat in the negligible cover of the reeds, rushes and tall…
Started out as a Biplane: The Grumman F4F Wildcat One Of The Most Valuable American Fighter Planes Of WW2
Despite its slightly odd origins, the Grumman F4F Wildcat was one of the most valuable fighter planes in the US arsenal of WWII. The Biplane…
The English Navy Full of Drunkenness, Disorder and the Plague: The Cadiz Fiasco of 1625
The English navy has a reputation as a force to be reckoned with from the 16th century onwards. But in the early 17th century it…
Women of The Civil War: Wives and Sisters Who Joined the Battlefield Fights Dressed As Men
The Civil War is famed for its brutal battles, its men slain on fields throughout the eastern half of the United States. It’s also a…
Horatio Hornblower’s Home for Sale
The childhood home that became the inspiration for Horatio Hornblower, C. S. Forester’s famous fictional Royal Naval officer, a Palladian mansion near Insch, Aberdeenshire, is…
Russia’s 1914 Invasion of Germany – The Beginning of WWI on the Eastern Front
In August 1914, fighting broke out between Germany and Russia – it was the beginning of WWI on the Eastern Front. Russia declared war on…
Code Name: Cicero, Elyesa Bazna was a ruthless WWII spy – His opportunity to make it rich evaporated, and he went back to working at odd jobs
Turkish secret agent, Elyesa Bazna, whose code name was Cicero, worked for Nazi Germany during WWII. How it All Began Born on July 28, 1904,…
Leonidas I, Sparta’s Greatest Warrior King
King Leonidas I is the most famous general in the history of Sparta, and perhaps the whole of Greece. Disappointingly little is known about the…
The Flaming Coffin, The German Heavy Dive Bomber The Luftwaffe Hated
The Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffin) was an aircraft doomed from the start of its inception. Its design was intrinsically flawed, its engines frequently caught…
Artillery and funerals – Lohman veteran served with U.S. Army in Hawaii in early 1960s
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 Families…