Finding a hero – Veteran receives Medal of Honor 24 years after valorous actions
War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jeremy P. Ämick, who is a military historian and writes on behalf of the Silver Star Families…
VA Denies Care to Purple Heart Recipient, Says They Need “More Proof”
The VA, or Veterans’ Affairs department, recently refused to pay any government benefits to a decorated World War Two veteran. The veterans name is Emil Limpert, and…
William the Conqueror’s superior strategy at Hastings, 1066
Across a short, steep, grassy slope in the cold light of the bright October sun, two heavily armed bodies of men faced each other. They…
Stunning Must See Video Of A Dakota AC-47 T, Acting As Lethal Spooky Killer!
War History Online Presents this Guest Article By Author and Blogger Hans Wiesman – Check Out His Website! In this Dakota Hunter Blog post, you’ll…
Secret Japanese WWII Submarine Rusting on Kiska Island
Stretching in an arc across the far northern Pacific Ocean, from Alaska in the east to Kamchatka in the west, and demarcating the Bering Sea…
9 Reasons Poland Fell So Quickly in 1939
As dawn rose on 1 September 1939, a German army swept across the border into Poland. Already tense, European politics would now descend into the…
German WWII atrocities in Greece
Italian troops attempted an invasion of Greece in October 1940, but the Greek army pushed the invaders back across the border into Albania. Germany intervened to…
Strategic Bombing Started In World War I – From Zeppelins
I suppose this being the centenary of the First World War, a lot of attention is being paid to it, and thusly I am soaking…
Dogfight: Breathtaking Battles in the Sky, Watch One Pilot Escape By Parachute!
Watch the Allied fighter squadrons take to the sky in the pursuit of the destruction of Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe in this British Pathé newsreel from…
Nelsons Heroic Death at Trafalgar 1805
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson was the pride of the fleet, the pride of his captains and his men, and of the public at home. The third…
64 years later: 101st Vet got to eat the meal that was stolen at Bastogne
With food being scarce during the Siege of Bastogne the defenders of the battered bastion instinctively searched for alternatives to fill their aching stomachs. However,…
South American Archives Confirm That Thousands of Nazis Fled There after the World War II
Recently-opened archives in some South American countries have shed new light on the extent of the wide-scale influx of Nazis into the Americas at the…