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Check Out Our Amazing Photo Gallery From A Visit HMS Alliance – The Last Submarine Of Its Kind

Today, HMS Alliance is a museum, in which visitors can explore the fascinating interior of a Second World War submarine. In 2014, after years of…

Skorzeny: The Mythical Nazi Commando (Part 1)

Guest Blog For War History Online By Adeyinka Makinde The rescue seventy years ago of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from captivity in a hotel lodge…

Skorzeny: The Mythical Nazi Commando (Part 2)

Continues from SKORZENY: The Mythical Commando (Part 1) By Adeyinka Makinde At the time, both the Hague and Geneva Conventions permitted the execution of “spies and saboteurs”…

How SS Commando Otto ‘Scarface’ Skorzeny Became an Assassin for Israel After WW2

Ian Harvey

German scientist Heinz Krug vanished on September 11, 1962. Krug was at his office, and then he was gone without ever returning home. The only…

This Fighter Pilot Saved a Bomber Squadron From German Fighter Attacks For over Half an Hour – Alone

During WWII, he single-handedly protected a bomber squadron against German planes… even when he ran out of ammo. They called him the “One Man Airforce”…

Battle of Busan Perimeter, The First Major Conflict in the Korean War

Busan Perimeter The Battle of Busan Perimeter took place in the fall of 1950 and was one of the first major conflicts of the Korean…

World War II Pacific Theatre Tourism On The Solomon Islands

When many are looking to combine their love of war history with a tropical getaway destination, they head straight for Hawaii. However, do not miss…

Nazi German Special Forces: The Brandenburg Regiment

Holly Godbey

The Brandenburg Regiment, part of Germany’s Nazi special forces, was created by Captain Theodor von Hippel. Hippel was a military man, who had served in…

The Awesome WW2 Churchill – The British Heavy Infantry Tank (Watch)

The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill was the primary heavy infantry tank of the British Army during the first years of the Second World…

Outnumbered 10 to 1 – In The Korean War, UN forces Held Off A Chinese Force 10 Times Their Size For Two Days

The Battle of Chipyong-ni has been labeled as ‘the Gettysburg of the Korean War’ and has been singled out as one of the greatest regimental…

WW2 Enthusiast Tracks Down A Veteran Who Signed A Captured Enemy Flag

Second World War veteran Carmen Vecchione did not remember signing a Nazi flag when history fan Mike Carper said he had one with a Swastika…

An Amazing Record Of The War – This Soldier Wrote His Journal All Through The Second World War

Leonel Jensen was a rancher from Wasta, South Dakota when he was sent to Europe to fight in World War II. Not only did he…