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Combat Contrasts – Veteran Began Extensive Military Career With Naval Service in 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 Families…

The Boat That Won The War – Review by Mark Barnes

I have a good number of books from the publisher of this little gem that tell the story of the great battleships of the Dreadnought…

The Element of Surprise – Totally Effective Surprise Attacks in Military History

Surprise attacks and ambushes can turn the tide of war. More often than not, the side that has the larger base of industry or manpower…

When The French Army Invaded Germany in 1939 To Support Poland, All Did Not Go As Planned

Germany was not the first country to go on the offensive on the western front of World War Two. That first attack came from France,…

Rommel’s Last Battle in North-Africa – Costly Failure At Medenine

Jack Beckett

The hot Tunisian sun beat down on the steel of tanks and armoured personnel carriers, planes strafed the artillery positions and the tracks of tanks…

Cornfield “Bomber” – The F-106 Delta Dart that Landed Itself After Pilot Ejected

Elaine Smith

The Convair F-106 Delta Dart is a delta wing interceptor aircraft, not a medium range bomber. Yet when a unique event involving this airplane occurred…

Screaming at Senior Officers “to hell with this, who’ll come with me” Kiwi Jack Hinton Earned the Victoria Cross in Greece

Jeff Edwards

It has often been mused that the worst soldiers in the garrison make the best soldiers on the battlefield. It would seem that while some…

General “The Auk” Auchinleck Squared Off With The Desert Fox In North Africa Before Being Fired by Churchill

Jeff Edwards

The dismissal of officers in World War 2 was quite a common practice for every army that fought in the war.  Whether or not these…

The Versailles Peace Treaty – Ending The Great War In 1918

The treaty of Versailles was one of several peace treaties which signaled the end of the devastating years of World War I. It sealed the end…

Stille Hilfe – The Organisation to Help Nazi War Criminals

In the aftermath of World War Two, most of the world wanted to punish those who had upheld the Nazi regime. The shocking revelation that…

Six Key Facts – The Terrible Conflict That Was The Vietnam War

Elly Farelly

The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was also known as the Second Indochina War. In Vietnam, it was called Kháng chiến…

Black Cat 2-1: Vietnam War Memoir Gives Voice To Those Who Served With Honor

In the Vietnam War, 2,197 helicopter pilots and 2,717 crew members were killed. Bob Ford was a Huey aircraft commander who flew over one thousand…