Colin Fraser

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

Articles by Colin Fraser:

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…

Saint Nazaire The Best Raid of WW2: Massive Intel, Courage, Sacrifice and Big Explosions

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

SMS Bodrog – The Once-Mighty Warship Which Fired The First Shots Of WWI

Stuck into a muddy river bank, somewhere in Serbia, lies an old, derelict gravel barge. Rusted, useless, and over 100 years old it has limited…

The Legendary Paratrooper: The Amazing Story of Ted Bachenheimer

Theodore Herman Bachenheimer earned many titles in his life. They weren’t always the titles of rank or hierarchical authority, but rather the ones given to him…

The War of Jenkins’ Ear – And The Defeat Of A Huge British Armada

Every year on the last Saturday of May, there is a celebration at the Wormsloe Plantation of Savannah, Georgia. In this Southern city known for…

John McCrae: Officer, Doctor, and Author of WWIs Most Famous Poem

More so than any other modern war and certainly more than any war fought before it, The First World War was the age of the “war…

The Evacuation of Dunkirk, The Evacuation That Kept Britain’s Hopes Of Victory Alive

The events of May and early June 1940 were equal parts disaster and Miracle. For France, it was a complete disaster – a total military defeat by…

The Nazi Invasion of the Balkans And 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…

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…

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…

John Glenn, Astronaut And Senator Flew 59 Combat Missions In WWII And Shot Down 3 Russian MiG-15s in Korea

John Glenn, was born July 18th, 1921 and died on 8th December 2016. Before his 25-year career in the Senate (1974-1999), however, he earned his…

Henry Johnson, Known as the “Black Death” – America’s First World War Hero

Henry Johnson was a World War I soldier who singlehandedly beat back a German assault while critically wounded. He was a great American hero and…