Colin Fraser

Colin Fraser is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Colin Fraser:

After the Nuremberg Trials, Spandau Prison Was Dedicated To Holding Only Seven Nazi War Criminals

In the borough of Spandau on Berlin’s west side, there sits a shopping complex on Wilhelmstraße that was once a shopping and leisure fixture for…

The Best And The Weirdest U.S. Propaganda Posters from WWI and WWII

Every country with a major involvement in World War I and II produced war propaganda posters. The U.S. alone produced hundreds of different posters with…

Charles Whittlesey, the Commander of the Lost Battalion

Colonel Charles White Whittlesey earned his fame when he was a major in World War I with the American Expeditionary Force. He led a battalion…

The Weapons They Carried: WWII Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to the Fight

Let’s take a look at the top 10 WWII Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard…

Two Soldiers Killed in The Battle of Buna-Gona Identified And Returned Home After 74 years

In October of 2011, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency was contacted by an Australian citizen in Papua New Guinea who drew their attention to possible…

The Weapons They Carried: 10 WWII Infantry Weapons That Were Crucial to the Fight

Let’s take a look at the top 10 WWII Infantry Rifles of WWII, both Allied and Axis. M1 Garand The M1 Garand was the standard…

Lightning Strike: When the Americans Killed Japanese Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

Not only did the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7th, 1941 deal a devastating blow to the United States’ Navy and draw the nation into…

The Nazi Invasion of the Balkans & Yugoslavia – A Costly Victory

In early 1941, Adolf Hitler could look at a map of Eastern Europe and think that his plans were progressing nicely. The invasion of the…

The Real Fury: Patton’s Disastrous 1945 Raid to Rescue His Son-in-Law

In February 1943, the U.S. Army had its first major engagement with the forces of Nazi Germany, ending with their disastrous defeat at the Kasserine…

Australia’s Pearl Harbor – The Bombing of Darwin By Hundreds of Japanse Aircraft

At 9:58 AM, February 19th, 1942, the humming drone of Japanese fighters and bombers was heard over Darwin, Australia. The residents, soldiers, and sailors of…

George H. Bush Narrowly Escaped Being Executed and Eaten By The Japanese in WWII

In September 1944, the USS Finback submarine surfaced a few miles off the coast of Chichi Jima, an island some 700 miles South of Tokyo.…

Top 10 U.S. Fighter Aces of World War II

We count down out top ten favorite Aviation Aces from the Second World War. These heroic high-flyers are ranked here according to the number enemy fighters…