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March of Life – Organizing Meetings Between Holocaust Survivors And The Descendants Of German Soldiers

The German organization March of Life inspires young Germans to examine their families’ past, break decades-old silence and expose acts perpetrated by their grandparents during…

The Gustav Line – Part 3: The Breach

War History Online presents the third part of this Guest Article from Pietro Giovanni Liuzzi  Corp Expéditionnaire Français Anzio – The landing at Anzio took…

Gripping Account Of The Mission From One Of The Original WW2 Dambusters

A movie was made about the Dambusters and their mission to destroy a number of dams in Germany during the Second World War, but it…

The Gustav Line – Part 2: Monte Cassino Abbey

War History Online presents the second part of this Guest Article from Pietro Giovanni Liuzzi  The Salvage of Montecassino Treasury The Abbey of Montecassino is…

Funeral Held For WWII Veteran Whose Life Was Spared By Rommel

Roy Wooldridge died at the age of 97.  He was a decorated veteran of World War II whose life was once spared when Erwin Rommel,…

The English County Remembering Canadian Casualties Of World War Two

Six Canadians killed on January 2, 1944, when the Wellington bomber they were flying collided with a hillside in England’s West Yorkshire County have been…

New Location For Military Cenotaph Up In The Air

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 3 in Toronto, Canada, is facing a dilemma: where to move a 7.5 meter, solid granite cenotaph. The branch is closing,…

Historic Structure In Ontario Is Under Threat

A motorist driving by what once was known as the Eatonville Roadhouse in southwestern Ontario, Canada, would never guess it’s possibly the last piece of…

Fighting On The Gustav Line – Part 1

War History Online presents this Guest Article from Pietro Giovanni Liuzzi  Italy, September 1943 – May 1944 Following the defenestration of Mussolini on July 25,…

Battle Of Arnhem Veteran Passes Away

Gordon (Curly) Harding passed away early in December. He was one of only a few surviving members of the 3rd Parachute Regiment that fought at…

The Blimps: The Defenders Of The Skies In Two World Wars

Sometimes a relatively simple solution is the best one. Such was the case in using barrage balloons, often called “blimps,” in both the First and…

Brave Woman Who Saved Hundreds Of Lives In The Holocaust Dies In The US Aged 96

Marion Pritchard, recognized in 1981 by Yad Vashem, the memorial in Jerusalem to victims of the Holocaust in World War II, as one of the…