Ian Harvey

Ian Harvey is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Ian Harvey:

70th Anniversary of Operation Frankton Commemorated

Operation Frankton

70 years ago the British Royal Marines took part in a small, but vital, mission known as Operation Frankton, which was destined to move the…

Ingenious Word War Two Women use German Parachute for Making Underwear

German Parachute

The women of a small British village called Earlswood in Warwickshire showed wartime ingenuity to make underwear out of a German parachute, according to a…

Germany’s Luftwaffe Bombing of Britain

Germany’s Luftwaffe

In August 1940 Germany’s Luftwaffe undertook a mission to bomb numerous RAF airfields.  Their mission, however, went drastically wrong. They bombed off-target and hit many…

Hitler’s bunker – command center and home away from home

Fifty feet below Berlin’s former Reich Chancellery and a few minutes from Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin was Hitler’s bunker or Führer bunker. In the…

World War Two ship wrecks prove increasingly profitable

World War Two ship wrecks

World War Two ship wrecks, including hundreds of vessels from battleships to submarines, commercial vessels and sailing boats all sunk during the naval battles of…

Kwajalein to celebrate the 71st anniversary of “Operation Flintlock” with the one and only veteran of the war

“Operation Flintlock”

The Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein is going to commemorate the 71st anniversary of “Operation Flintlock”, the battle for Kwajalein Atoll. The military contractors at…

World War One French officer’s bedroom intact after 100 years

A soldier’ who fought and died in World War One is being remembered 100 years after the war. The French officer’s bedroom at his home…

London’s Science Museum is hosting the exhibition of Churchill’s Scientists

Science Museum

In Britain, scientific evolution blossomed during the Second World War. The war brought a revolutionary change in British history. At the time, the versatile Sir…

Will the world soon see a Third World War?

Third World War

It is a bit terrifying to think about the mass devastation which took place during the First and Second World Wars. However, the time is…

The Irish connection to Hitler’s family

Hitler’s family

Adolf Hitler’s older half brother Alois Hitler, Jr. married an Irish lady, Bridget Dowling, establishing an Irish branch of Hitler’s family history. It was 1909…

Environmental clean-up set to reveal US Civil War-era weapons trove

Union army

The capital city of South Carolina, Columbia, and an allied stronghold was sacked by the Union army on 17th February 1865. William Sherman, the General…

Documentary created to shed light on the unforgettable heroes of the Korean War

Korean War

On Tuesday night on S4C, a documentary came up about the Welsh soldiers who went through the tremendous tortures during the Korean War. More than…