Wartime Claim To Fame Divides the 2 Italian Towns of Nettuno and Anzio
The American Third Infantry Division landed in Nettuno in Jan. 22, 1944, while other British and American troops headed for the nearby beaches in Anzio.…
Hitler’s Secret Bunker And His Plot To Invade Britain
Every day and every night Adolf Hitler and his military chiefs would be inside the secret bunker, which had rooms above and below the ground,…
NO PARACHUTE – Review by Mark Barnes
NO PARACHUTE Arthur Gould Lee Grub Street ISBN: 978 1 90916 604 2 Review by Mark Barnes for War History Online Arthur Gould Lee had…
200-Year-Old Cannons Under South Wales Beach Bared by Storms
South Wales – Recent storms have laid bare 2 cannons hidden under the sand of a South Wales beach from a sunken British warship sent…
Imperial War Museum Duxford Receives Money for American Collection Development
The Imperial War Museum Duxford has been granted £980,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund; it plans to use the money for the redevelopment of its American…
Bermuda Was As Important to the Atlantic as Pearl Harbor Was To The Pacific
On January 25, 2014, the Royal Gazette brings the story of Luftwaffe. September 10, 1942, the US Army Air Corps Administration Building at Fort Bell…
WWII Vet Exposed To Radiation In Hiroshima Wins VA Fight
In 1945, John Brenan was sent on a reconnaissance mission in Hiroshima, to search if there were any enemy left, but all there was left…
Volunteer Body Hunters in Search of Russia’s WWII fallen
Russia’s volunteer body hunters — individuals who are willing to devout their time and effort to scouring previous WWII battlefields to look for the remains…
DVD Review: MONS 1914 – By Phil Hodges
MONS 1914 Pen & Sword Military 90mins Review by Phil Hodges for War History Online Mons 1914 reads the title of the DVD and just so…
Heinrich Himmler’s Love Letters to Wife Bared after 7 Decades
SS commander Heinrich Himmler’s love letters addressed to his wife were revealed by Germany’s Die Welt newspaper for the first time Sunday. The collection let…
WWI Tribunal Records Documenting Appeals Against Conscription Now Digitized
The UK’s Express brings a story of 8,000 recorded attempts to avoid conscription during WWI. These tribunal records have been released online on January 22nd…
WWII Original Book To be Donated to the 82nd Airborne Division Museum
The Fay Observer reported on January 25, 2014 the story of a WWII book that is to be donated to the 82nd Airborne Division museum.…