These WW2 Railwaymen Gave Their Lives to Prevent a Munitions Disaster
Close your eyes and imagine an act of wartime courage. What do you picture? A soldier carrying a comrade to safety? A captain buying his…
Hugh Seagrim, Who Fought WW2 from Behind Japanese Lines
In the small Karen village of Mewado, Burma, two men stood smoking cigarettes. The owner of the cigarettes, Captain Inoue, was an officer in the…
Godfrey Place: World War Two Submariner, Future Admiral, And Victoria Cross Recipient
A daring submarine exploit of the Second World War was an attempt to sink the battleship Tirpitz using midget submarines. One man who came close…
The Crew Of The B-24 Liberator “Star Valley” – Downed Behind Enemy Lines
War History Online presents this Guest Article by Mark Gero Saturday, February 5th, 1944, in a remote part of central France lies a village called…
The Raid on Alexandria – Military History of Italy in WW2
War History Online presents this Guest Article by Bruera Clément Italy’s military history of World War II is not well known by common people; this is…
The Indian Spy Who Fooled Everyone In World War Two
In what would seem to be a strange series of coincidences, and there were many during the Second World War, the brother of Ian Fleming…
When The Nazis Won The War: New TV Series Explores Britain In An Alternative Future
The often asked question of what life under the Third Reich in Britain would be like if Germany had won the Second World War, will…
Joint Effort by Indonesia and Australia to safeguard marine war wrecks
Australia and Indonesia are joining forces next month, so to speak, to protect the site of a warship sunk off the coast of Java during…
When a WW2 Bomb Was Found in London, this Expert Coordinated the Removal
Lieutenant Mike St-Pierre is a Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) clearance diving expert. He was on exchange with British bomb disposal units when a World War…
Japanese-American Soldiers, The Nisei: The Purple Heart Battalion
When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese-Americans became enemy aliens and were sent to internment camps. One responded in a most spectacular way. Daniel…
Russian WWII Bunkers Expose Visitors to Huge Levels of Radiation
In the forests of Russia’s Karelia are the decaying remnants of concrete bunkers. They stretch in a line from the Gulf of Finland to Lake…
Restored Hawker Hurricane to Take to the Skies Again
For Pilot Officer Kenneth McGlasham his flight from Kent in May 1940 to provide cover at Dunkirk on the French coast for evacuating British troops,…