Colin Fraser

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

Articles by Colin Fraser:

Must-Know Facts About The Bolo Knife – History, Development And Use Of An Iconic Weapon

Imperial forces around the world, whether they came to the battle with muskets and cannons or machine guns and fighter planes, have come to fear…

To Find A Lost WWII Buddy, Gene “Star Trek” Roddenberry Named A Villain After Him

Gene Roddenberry was a U.S. Army Air Force bomber pilot. He served in the Pacific from 1942 until 1945 when he was honorably discharged. He…

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…

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 Best & 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…

After the Nuremberg Trials, Spandau Prison Was Dedicated To Holding 7 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…

Saint Nazaire Raid: Massive Intel, Courage, Sacrifice and Big Explosions

A little after 1:20 AM on March 28th, 1942, searchlights on both sides of the Loire Estuary flooded the waterway to reveal the convoy. Twelve…

The Real Fury: Patton’s Disastrous Hammelburg Raid to Free 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 Kasserine Pass…

Sinking the Tirpitz, Sister to the Bismarck and the Heaviest European Battleship Ever

The story of the World War II German battleship Bismarck is legendary. The massive warship was destroyed by British ships and planes and then scuttled…

The Philadelphia Experiment: The US Navy’s secret invisibility research program?

What kind of technologies do the governments and militaries of the world possess? What highly classified project have the public been blissfully unaware of? Anti-gravity?…

They Shot Each Other Down Then Depended On Each Other For Survival In The Norwegian Wilderness

Into the White was a 2012 Norwegian film loosely based on real events from World War II’s Norwegian Campaign, when the Allies tried to keep the…

U-571: Fiction To The Point of Insult?

For fans of 20th-century war-action maritime films, the 2000 picture U-571 should be a good time. Make some popcorn, go ahead. It even won an…