Jurassic Park of Aviation Found – How WWII Built Aircraft Still Struggle For Survival In New Age
War History Online is Proud to Present this Guest Piece from the Dakota Hunter Blog by respected Author and blogger Hans Weisman. The remnants of an abandoned airplane…
He Was The Last Japanese WWII Soldier To Surrender – in 1974
World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. As for Southeast Asia and Oceania, peace only came several months later on September 2,…
The Man Who Escaped 200 Times From A Nazi PoW Camp To Visit His Lover
For some people, escaping a German prisoner of war camp once would be enough. The first time Horace Greasley did it, he was just getting…
8 Ways Medieval Crusaders Might Have Thought And Felt About Their Wars
A knight stands on the walls of Jerusalem, staring out at the parched land beyond the city. He is weary from weeks of travel and…
Nine Things the Movie ‘Braveheart’ Got Wrong… And One Thing It Got Right
Mel Gibson’s film Braveheart is both one of the most celebrated and one of the most reviled pieces of historical filmmaking ever. A heart-stirring and…
The Longbow: Its Rise and Dominance
The growing effectiveness of metal armor created a challenge for medieval soldiers. While the elite of knights and men-at-arms were now well protected, the majority…
Building Armies in the Harsh World of Medieval England
Recruiting an army could be a difficult business in the Middle Ages. Most people’s lives consisted of farming small patches of land. When people didn’t…
Total War Teams Are Working On The Next Historical Title In The Hugely Successful Series
Enthusiasts of the Total War series might be happy to hear that in addition to Total War: Warhammer 2, Creative Assembly is hard at work…
Duplicate Dog Tags From The Second World War Bring Families Together
Sam Nusz was drafted into the US Army during World War II on March 22, 1941. On March 22, 1944, Nusz was shipped to 204th…
Cemetery Exhuming Remains of 94 Unknown Battle of Tarawa Servicemen for Indentification
Officials are disinterring the remains of 94 unidentified Marines and sailors who were killed in the Pacific during one of the bloodiest battles of World…
The Second Incarnation of HMS Iron Duke – Great Britain’s World War One Ultra-Battleship
Perhaps the Duke of Wellington, were he alive in 1914, would have objected to a second battleship again named after him when the first HMS…
The Remains of a World War Two Pilot Make It Home
The remains of Capt. Albert Schlegel arrived in Beaufort, Ga., March 27, 73 years after he disappeared in World War II, when his P-51 fighter…