Evette Champion

Evette Champion is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Evette Champion:

Family vs. Historian: the U-33 Controversy

The Greenock Telegraph reported on January 21, 2014 the story of the relatives of a U-Boat gunner direct their anger toward an Inverclyde historian’s dismissal…

Sergeant Cavinder: One Man’s Story of Compassion and Brutality in the Trenches

The Hull Daily Mail reported a story that shows both the brutality and compassion that took places during the First World War Sergeant Len Cavinder…

WWI Tank Returns to Hinckley

The Hinkley Times ran a report on January 12, 2014 about a WWI tank that arrived to commemorate the beginning of the war. February 3,…

Scottish Twins Died On the Same Day at Anzio During WWII

The Herald Scotland reported on January 21, 2014 the story of two Scottish twins who perished during the Second World War on the same day.…

Bermuda Was As Important to the Atlantic as Pearl Harbor Was To The Pacific

On January 25, 2014, the Royal Gazette brings the story of Luftwaffe. September 10, 1942, the US Army Air Corps Administration Building at Fort Bell…

WWI Tribunal Records Documenting Appeals Against Conscription Now Digitized

The UK’s Express brings a story of 8,000 recorded attempts to avoid conscription during WWI. These tribunal records have been released online on January 22nd…

WWII Original Book To be Donated to the 82nd Airborne Division Museum

The Fay Observer reported on January 25, 2014 the story of a WWII book that is to be donated to the 82nd Airborne Division museum.…

100th Anniversary of WWI and Germany Has No Plans

The Local reported on January 13, 2014 a story regarding Germany’s official plans to commemorate the century anniversary of World War One. Although most of…

American Soldiers Rescue South Vietnamese

January 21, 2014, Fox News shares the story of a filmmaker, Rory Kennedy, who has created a film about American heroes that very few people…

Liberty Aviation Museum Houses Excellently Restored WWII Bombers and More

On January 13, 2014, ABC News in Cleveland, Ohio reported a story of the Liberty Aviation Museum that is located in Port Clinton. The museum…

Major Winters Statue to be Erected Despite Family’s Disapproval

On July 18th, 2013, the Lancaster Online wrote a story about a local war hero, Major Richard Winters, is having a statue erected in his…

Historian Claims German U-Boat Did Not Break Through to River Clyde

January 17, 2014, the Greenock Telegraph, reports the story of an art historian who has challenged the claim that German submarines were able to break…