Action T4 – Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Programme That Murdered The Disabled and The Mentally Ill
In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a decree that enabled Nazi Germany to forcefully euthanize patients who they deemed were “unworthy of life”. After the…
Tommy Prince Was So Quiet, Sometimes Instead Of Killing Germans He Would Steal Their Shoes
Tommy Prince was born on October 15th, 1915, in Scanterbury Manitoba Canada in a family of eleven siblings. He left school at an early age…
Hell’s Highway – 101st Airborne Battles South of Veghel In WW2 Operation Market Garden (Part 1)
The date is September 24th, 1944, Operation Market Garden has dragged on into its 6th day and the Germans are about to begin their last…
Jimmy Doolittle Led The First Mission To Bomb Japan – Against All the Odds
Often, war is no different than your average street fight regardless of how crude that might seem. When a man is punched in the nose,…
A Despicable Crime – Grave Robbers Steal Skull of American WWII Veteran
Six months ago, an unthinkable crime occurred in the small city of Hickory, North Carolina. Grave robbers broke into the mausoleum where James William Floyd remains…
School Children Honor WW2 Battle of Britain Pilot
Seventy-five years have elapsed since James Brindley Nicolson shot down a German fighter plane earning him a Victoria Cross. Recently, a plaque was unveiled by…
Thousands Honor John Basilone During 35th Annual Memorial Parade In New Jersey
The Raritan, New Jersey borough’s favorite son, John Basilone, was honored on Sunday again during the 35th Annual John Basilone Memorial Parade. Basilone, whose historic…
Maurice Gamelin And The Fall Of France In 1940
A quick look at the fall of France in May 1940. 1. The French Were Led by Maurice Gamelin At the start of the Second…
The Notorious Rheinwiesenlager – Thousands of Germans Died in American-Run POW Camps In Germany in 1945
For all but fringe debaters on the subject, the book is closed. The horror and death caused my maltreatment or murder in German, Japanese and…
Battle of Wake Island – All Those Who Surrendered Were Tortured, 98 Were Machine-Gunned
Before the threat of war in the Pacific and the outbreak of World War II, Wake Island was a stopping off point for vacationers aboard…
“How we won the war” – John Knapp, Centenarian preserves story of military service at the urging of his children
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…
Locals Gather Information on WWII Veterans in the Lead Up to ANZAC Day
Locals in Kaukapakapa, New Zealand, took on the challenge of gathering information and photographs of the 85 service people featured on their World War II…