http://www.warhistoryonline.com One stop resource for all military history and news Tue, 21 May 2013 18:45:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/billionaire-paul-allen-gets-v-2-rocket-for-aviation-museum-near-seattle.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/billionaire-paul-allen-gets-v-2-rocket-for-aviation-museum-near-seattle.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 18:45:04 +0000 Joris http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26332
By John Cook, GeekWire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is selling some of his abstract art, and buying a historic rocket. The eclectic Seattle billionaire has procured a rare Wernher von Braun-designed V-2 rocket, the first human-made object to fly into outer space. Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection — located at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. — is taking possession of the rocket on Monday. The Mittelwerk [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/billionaire-paul-allen-gets-v-2-rocket-for-aviation-museum-near-seattle.html/feed 0 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/pictures-emerge-of-field-marshal-montgomery-visiting-pivotal-el-alamein-battlefield-25-years-after-he-defeated-the-germans.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/pictures-emerge-of-field-marshal-montgomery-visiting-pivotal-el-alamein-battlefield-25-years-after-he-defeated-the-germans.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 17:45:40 +0000 Jack http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26362
Photographs of British war hero Field Marshal Montgomery returning to the scene of his greatest victory 25 years later have emerged for sale. The candid images show Montgomery as an old man setting foot at El Alamein in Egypt to mark the anniversary of the Allies’ first major triumph against Germans in World War Two. The famous British general, affectionately [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/pictures-emerge-of-field-marshal-montgomery-visiting-pivotal-el-alamein-battlefield-25-years-after-he-defeated-the-germans.html/feed 0 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/blown-out-of-proportion-student-arrested-for-posing-by-russian-world-war-two-memorial-with-an-inflatable-sex-doll.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/blown-out-of-proportion-student-arrested-for-posing-by-russian-world-war-two-memorial-with-an-inflatable-sex-doll.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 16:45:08 +0000 Joris http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26352
Hooliganism? Police posted this image of Anastasia Polnikova, 23, far left, locked up after she was arrested to warn others against the consequences of copying their stunt. Arrest warrants for the other three have since been issued The Daily Mail reports: Anastasia Polnikova, 23, was locked up after being charged with hooliganism Her three accomplices, two men and a woman, are [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/blown-out-of-proportion-student-arrested-for-posing-by-russian-world-war-two-memorial-with-an-inflatable-sex-doll.html/feed 0 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/is-it-illegal-to-wear-medals-you-werent-awarded.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/is-it-illegal-to-wear-medals-you-werent-awarded.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 15:45:36 +0000 Jack http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26378
BBC: A man who attended a Remembrance Day parade with medals he wasn’t awarded has been ordered to do community service for his deception. But there is a thriving trade in second-hand military decoration, so is it illegal to wear them? Veterans call them “Walt medals” – as in the fictional fantasist Walter Mitty – and keep an eye out [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/is-it-illegal-to-wear-medals-you-werent-awarded.html/feed 0 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/a-selection-of-impressive-black-and-white-photographs-of-that-uneasy-year-1943.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/a-selection-of-impressive-black-and-white-photographs-of-that-uneasy-year-1943.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 14:45:45 +0000 Joris http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26293
  Soviet artillerymen fighting under the cover of a smoke screen. Soviet artillerymen are shooting at the German troops boxed in Stalingrad. Soviet tank T-34 destroyed somewhere in Kharkiv. Sumskaya street. Attack planes Il-2 are leaving for a combat mission near Stalingrad. The crew of the Soviet bomber Pe-2 at the airfield. Soviet soldiers sitting at the fire in a [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/a-selection-of-impressive-black-and-white-photographs-of-that-uneasy-year-1943.html/feed 0 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/fighter-pilot-reunited-with-tough-little-kittyhawk.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/fighter-pilot-reunited-with-tough-little-kittyhawk.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 13:45:45 +0000 Joris http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26348
German fighter ace Major Joachim Muncheberg claimed RAAF P-40 Kittyhawk pilot Tom Russell as his 129th kill, over Tunisia on January 22, 1943. The German airman was killed in a dogfight with Spitfires six weeks later, but Mr Russell, who turns 96 in July, has no plans to leave this earth any time soon. The former No. 3 Squadron RAAF [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/fighter-pilot-reunited-with-tough-little-kittyhawk.html/feed 0 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/2011-intact-german-ww1-uboat-found-off-ireland.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/2011-intact-german-ww1-uboat-found-off-ireland.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 12:45:55 +0000 Joris http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26358
A team of five sport divers from Cork discovered the WWI German U-boat in good condition in 27m of water just off Roches Point on 6 November after a 12-month search. SM UC-42 was a German Type UC II minelaying submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy during World War I. On the 10th of September of 1917 UC42 [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/2011-intact-german-ww1-uboat-found-off-ireland.html/feed 0 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/rhidian-brook-my-grandfather-inspired-my-bestselling-novel.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/rhidian-brook-my-grandfather-inspired-my-bestselling-novel.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 11:45:05 +0000 Joris http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26340
The Guardian reports: In 1945 a defeated Germany was divided into four zones – British, American, French and Russian. It’s said that the French got the wine, the Americans got the view and the British got the ruins. By 1948, these three areas had conjoined to form West Germany and the Russian zone had become East Germany. The Cold War [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/rhidian-brook-my-grandfather-inspired-my-bestselling-novel.html/feed 0 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/unthinkable-putting-the-second-world-war-to-rest.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/unthinkable-putting-the-second-world-war-to-rest.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 10:45:55 +0000 Joris http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26336
guardian.co.uk reports: This week, it was the Dambusters – their wartime air raids against German dams commemorated once again, 70 years on. Last week, it was the Arctic convoys — their survivors gathering in the Highlands, again 70 years on from their wartime exploits. Only a few days before that, it had been the turn of the Bevin Boys — commemorated in a new memorial to their [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/unthinkable-putting-the-second-world-war-to-rest.html/feed 0 http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/a-wonderful-tribute-to-veterans-at-the-pix.html http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/a-wonderful-tribute-to-veterans-at-the-pix.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 01:45:22 +0000 Joris http://www.warhistoryonline.com/?p=26329
Democratherald.com reports: Judging from the applause afterward, I’d say everyone in the audience thoroughly enjoyed “Honor Flight: One Last Mission” on Saturday afternoon at the Pix. The inspirtational 2012 documentary chronicles how the community of Port Washington, Wis., rallied around their World War II veterans and sent them on Honor Flights to the memorials in Washington,D.C. All 200 tickets for the [...]]]> http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/a-wonderful-tribute-to-veterans-at-the-pix.html/feed 0