Newly restored Messerschmitt Bf109G flies again: Test pilot shares his experience
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Rick Volker. It was a most unexpected phone call that shook me out of my well organized…
“The World Turns to War” – Latest Book In Powerful Series Reveals Firsthand Accounts & Never-Seen Photos Of War
There’s no doubt that World War II is a fascinating and haunting period of time to study, but it is only by talking to those…
Three-Part Series On The Most Decorated Panzer Companies Of The Wehrmacht – 2nd Company, 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion
War History Online presents this guest blog by Evan Pinter In this three-part series, we will take a look at the three most decorated panzer…
Romans in China: The Lost Legions of Carrhae
The Romans in the first century BCE were perhaps the most growing empires around. Though the civil wars of Caesar and Pompey, and Octavian and…
Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 & Then Went On a Rampage
They say that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” But if you take her love away, it gets a helluva lot worse –…
“Arkansas Valor” – U.S. Army WWII Veteran Raymond W. Clark
Director Terrence Ward presents us with a screening of his DVD series, Arkansas Valor, with WWII Veteran Raymond W. Clark of Lake City, Arkansas. Arkansas…
Brimming With Experiences – Veteran’s military career spans U.S. Army, state regiment, Marine Corps
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…
Mithridates the Poisoner King: Hallucinogenic honey, venom arrows – often experimented with poisons on criminals already condemned to death
Poison had a steady but often quiet or controversial place in the history of warfare. On one hand, it was incredibly useful. Poisoned wells could…
Operation Reservist: When The Allies Were Annihilated By Vichy French Soldiers In WW2
After the fall of France during WWII, a puppet regime was established, with its administrative center in the town of Vichy, declaring itself The Vichy…
Not Something Everyone Knows BUT Roald Dahl The Children’s Book Author Was Also an RAF Fighter Ace
Roald Dahl was largely known as a children’s book writer behind the titles such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda, The…
Where Patton Awarded McAuliffe: The 101st Airborne HQ Chateau in Bastogne Revisited
In this Dakota Hunter Blog, you will read about an insane plan that the Germans deployed in a final effort to break the imminent Allied…
War on the Terraces: The Nika Riots
First the stewards and then the riot squad had been unable to deal with the supporters when trouble flared on the stands, and eventually, after…