Elaine Smith

Elaine Smith is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Elaine Smith:

With His Navigator Ejected Halfway Out His Plane, This Is What This Pilot Did To Save Him

Being launched off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is a normal routine, but adrenaline junkie pilots love the radical feel of about 4…

Cornfield “Bomber” – The F-106 Delta Dart that Landed Itself After Pilot Ejected

The Convair F-106 Delta Dart is a delta wing interceptor aircraft, not a medium range bomber. Yet when a unique event involving this airplane occurred…

Beer Bombers: Boys Will Be Boys and Soldiers Needed Their Beer!

Only a few days after the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day, the dust and heat of the tortured area stirred up quite a thirst…

The Totally Inept Nazi Saboteurs Sent To Terror Bomb the USA – Achieved Nothing

Although most people know Japanese soldiers invaded Alaska during World War II, most do not know Germany sent two groups of saboteurs to wreak havoc…

Trying to Disprove Truth – The Holocaust Deniers

Why would anyone want to deny the Holocaust ever happened? How can they bring into question historical facts and eyewitness testimony? It all comes down…

Battle of the Bulge – A Punch In The Gut

Just before The Battle of the Bulge, Allied officers drew an eighty-eight-mile line through the forests, hills, and ravines that make the region called The…

Britain’s Hero Bomb Disposal Expert – Dismantled 7 Consecutive Bombs To Clear Path For Wounded Soldiers

When a British soldier receives The George Cross decoration, you know he’s done something outstanding. This highly honored decoration was created in 1940 by King…

All Aboard! Even the Pigeons!

On a hot August afternoon in Houston, Texas in 1967, Smokey Culver had just celebrated his 18th birthday. He was walking downtown at a time…

The W.A.V.E Who Wowed Frank Sinatra

Is it possible Frank Sinatra would be crooning a tune to the girls in the Navy? Yes indeed. It happened at the Woman Accepted for…

From Texas to Japan aboard a LST – Putting The Men Ashore To Win The War

The United States Navy didn’t closely scrutinized the paperwork for some of its recruits during World War II. Indeed, it wasn’t unheard of for date…

The oldest Commando of WWII – 73 year old Walter Cowan of course, oh, he was also in WWI

When fifteen-year-old Walter Henry Cowan became a Royal Navy trainee in 1884, Great Britain was the dominant naval force in the world. The boy had…

The Arizona Balloon Buster – Epic Tale of Courage, Friendship and Sacrifice

In only nine days of flying in World War I combat, just ten missions and thirty hours of time in a Spad XIII aircraft, Lieutenant…