Hans Wiesman

Hans Wiesman is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Hans Wiesman:

The Forgotten War In S.W. Pacific: Air Raids From Australia Against The Dutch East Indies

War History Online Presents this Guest Blog from Author and Blogger Hans Wiesman. Check out his Blog and his Book.  In this Dakota Hunter Blog, you…

See The Frozen Hell From Which The C-47 Crew Escaped – Yukon Crash Site Revisited Vol 2

In this Dakota Hunter Blog,  you will see some unique photos of the crashed USAF C-47, that went down over the Yukon in February 1950. …

This Transport Company Was Asked To Transport A Dakota, You Will Not Believe How They Crashed It…

Check it Out! War History Online proudly presents this guest blog from accomplished author and blogger Hans Wiesman. You can read more by Hans and…

President John F Kennedy’s DC-3 Gift To Mobutu Found Back In Congo, SOS For The Scrapper

Chaotic Start of the Congo State. Until 1960, the Congo was under Belgian Colonial rule. On June 30 of that year, a huge new Central African…

The Catalina Photo Album

This Dakota Hunter Blog shows you some rare photos of the Consolidated Catalina PBY  before, during and after WWII. The Seaplane was a contemporary of…

Jurassic Park of Aviation Found! How WWII Built Aircraft Still Struggle For Survival In New Age

The remnants of an abandoned airplane stretched out in the Desert of “Memories of bygone days“. The type has long gone extinct. Except for a…

Guess Which Was WWII’s Biggest Airlift? Over The What? Over The Hump!

This Dakota Hunter Blog features a photo album about one of the greatest military airlift operations of all time. In April 1942, the Allied Forces initiated…

Wanted By The Dakota Hunter: Douglas DC-3/C-47 For New Military Museum; Static or Flying!

Feature Photo (courtesy Onno Wieringa) depicts The Dakota Hunter on that classic Harley Davidson WL 750 in front of 2 immaculate C-47’s, in Normandy, dated…

Stunning Video: Low Fly Pass Of Bolivian Curtiss Commando Before Its Fatal Flight

In this Dakota Hunter Blog, you will hear the roaring sound  of a couple of Radial Piston engines R-2800’s and see impressive footage of an…

Gunship Wanted: Fairchild AC-119K Stinger For An Aviation Museum Display

Feature Photo depicts an AC-119K Stinger while firing its array of guns in an attack on North Vietnamese trucks on the Ho Chi Minh Trail (early…

Helicopters At War! Part 1 – By The Dakota Hunter

Around 1480,  before he painted the Universal Masterwork Mona Lisa, the Italian Genius Architect, Artist and Inventor Leonardo da Vinci designed flying machines. Many based on mimicking…

Airborne Aircraft Carriers of the early 1950’s by The Dakota Hunter

B-29 Super Fortress coupled to two EF-84 D’s with wing tips connected to each other in flight. During WWII, the flight range of the USAF…