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Armored Fist of Germany – Photos and Video of the Panzerfaust Anti-Tank Weapon

The enormous scale of tank warfare during World War II consequently lead to creating counter-measures. The armor of early tanks was relatively thin. However, that…

Submarine Hunters and Flying Boats – Seaplanes in World War One

The First World War was not the first time that planes had been used in warfare, but it was the first time they were deployed…

Diary Reveals Firsthand Account of Fierce Turkish-Russian Battles

War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jack Snowden Following the calamitous defeat of the Turkish army at Sarıkamış in late 1914 and early 1915,…

US Navy Cancels Hybrid Program

The US Navy has confirmed their intention to cancel a program that would have installed fuel-efficient hybrid electric drives in 34 of their destroyers after…

Jets in the Korean War – F-86 Sabre

The F-86 Sabre had several predecessors, all of them introduced in 1944, the last full year of World War Two. That year the Germans brought…

The rebellion of Mary Tudor – she was joined by more than 15,000 men

On July 6, 1553, Edward VI, King of England, lay dead, but only a few people knew about it. The powerful Duke of Northumberland was…

Foreigners who served in the Red Army in WWII

During World War II there were dozens of military formations consisting of foreign nationals fighting alongside the Red Army to turn back the Nazi invasion.…

Strange but True: Jews Fought For Germany in WWII

In early 2018 Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center pressed Finnish President Sauli Niinistö to open an investigation concerning the role Finnish volunteers played…

Dogs of War: New Memorial for Unsung Heroes of The Battlefields

Heroes of past wars have contributed significantly to the freedoms we enjoy today. Those that have saved lives by risking their own will never be…

Task Force Smith – America’s Entry into Korean War

Task Force Smith was composed mostly of men under 21 years of age, and before war broke out in Korea on June 25, 1950, its…

The Remarkable History of the Original Assassins

The first group of assassins to be found in the historical record is that of the Hashshashin who operated in Persia, Syria, and Turkey, eventually spreading…

Conflicting Alliances – The Liberation of Prague, 1945

During the dying days of the Second World War, German forces clung desperately to their last few territories. One of these was a swathe of…