Revisiting the WW2 Battle For Arnhem: The Epic Movie Theirs is the Glory (Watch)
Theirs is the Glory is a British war film, made in 1946, that covers the Battle of Arnhem and the part played by the British…
ISU-152 Heavy Assault Gun From World War 2 With Massive 152.4 mm Howitzer
During World War II, the Soviets developed a massive mobile gun to defend against the German tanks. It was based on the KV-1S tank and…
A Piston Engine Symphony: Meet The Fighters 2016 Engine Startups – B-17, Corsair And More
A celebration of historic warplane technology awaits you in this compilation of warplane engine startups. War History Online had the privilege of witnessing this year’s…
Korean War: The US Pilot Who Chased A MiG To China To Shoot It Down, Then Survived The “Hanoi Hilton”
James Robinson “Robbie ” Risner was an American military pilot, a double recipient of the Air Force Cross and a hero of the Korean and…
76 Hours Of Hell – The Battle Of Tarawa – 5,700 Dead For Twelve Square Miles
The Battle of Tarawa was one of the more terrible American experiences in the Pacific theater of World War Two. It was one that would…
Five Influential Historical Generals Who Were Actually Mad
A shocking number of military leaders have suffered from mental health issues, even as they held the lives of the men they led in their…
Awesome Englishwoman Flora Sandes Fought In The Serbian Infantry In World War 1
Flora Sandes was born on January 22, 1876, in Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire, England to a pastor. Fortunately, he was a liberal man, as Flora often…
The Only Woman Ever To Join The French Foreign Legion Served In World War Two And Vietnam
The Légion Étrangère is better known as the French Foreign Legion – a military organization open to men who are foreign nationals. In 1945, however,…
The Female Allied Spy Who Received A German Iron Cross Medal In The First World War
During WWI, the German government condemned a woman to death for spying on them. Fortunately for her, they commuted her sentence when they realized they…
These Two Humanitarians Worked Hard To Help The Allies At The Start Of WW1 – They Were Almost Executed
She was sentenced to death by the Germans in WWI for helping the Allied cause but was spared by the German Emperor and the Pope.…
Medal Of Honor: This Heroic Airman Burned To Save His Crew From Certain Death
The Medal of Honor is America’s highest military award given to those for acts of valor that in some cases border on insanity. In WWII,…
A Bridge Too Far: The Americans, And The True Story Of The 101st And 82nd In Operation Market Garden
A Bridge Too Far, the film adaptation of Cornelius Ryan’s book of the same name, tells the epic tale of the men who fought through…