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Pacific War In Color on Smithsonian Channel Premieres Sunday, June 24 Rare Color Film and Photos

A groundbreaking new eight-part series traces the epic struggle of the Pacific War using rare and never-before-seen color visuals from every corner of the conflict. Smithsonian Channel takes…

Paratrooper: Interview with the Director and Producer of the New Television Series

The following is a transcript of the interview with War History Online and the Creators of Paratrooper. Today we have with us Lance Nielsen the director…

The U.S. 1st Division at Cantigny 1918 Remembered

The average person has almost certainly never heard of the Battle of Cantigny that took place on May 28th, 1918. However, it was the first…

Tennessee Town Honors USCT Civil War Vets Long Forgotten

History has many hidden corners and blind spots, places where the official record is so swayed by ideological bias that historians of the future will…

Total Success: 75th Anniversary of the US Army Normandy Invasion Training Center in England

In 1943, during World War II, the Allies started planning what would become the largest amphibious invasion in history. The plan was for a coastline…

Amazing Story of Gun Running in the Turkish War of Independence – The Alemdar

War History Online presents this article from Jack Snowden The source for the adventurous tales of the Alemdar are two ship’s logs, the first of…

The Myth of the “Rubble Women” in Germany – Trümmerfrau

Throughout Germany, there is a repeated motif in statues: A woman, with a hammer in her hand, her hair pulled up in a kerchief, looks…

The Knights Hospitaller and the Great Siege of Malta

In 1530, the Knights Hospitaller were given control of the island of Malta. 35 years later, in 1565, the Ottoman Empire invaded the island. The…

Port Miami, Ohio – Lost in the War of 1812, Found, and Lost Again

The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain saw heavy fighting in the area of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan along the…

100 Years of the RAF – A Party is in Order

Great Britain’s Royal Air Force is celebrating 100 years of service in 2018 with many interesting activities during the year.  The 100 RAF Aircraft tour…

Battle of Jutland – Won by the Numbers

Since the rapid innovation of mechanical technologies that marked the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, very few points in the history of Western civilization…

D-Day Heroes Remembered – Family Places Fresh Plaque on Site of C-47 Crash

Many of you have read the recent story “Lost on D-Day: The story behind the plaque down a lonely lane in Normandy“, published on War…