Ian Harvey

Ian Harvey is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Ian Harvey:

We Have Lost Another Dam Busters Hero

The UK has sadly lost another esteemed hero of the Dam Busters squadron when Kenneth Law Sumner died in the Royal Victoria Infirmary at the…

Man Bahadur Ghimire, a Gurkha veteran of Monte Cassino passes away aged 100

The Gurkha Welfare Trust was sad to announce the death of one of their oldest and most popular residents, Man Bahadur Ghimire. This gentle man,…

Crewless Robot Submarine That Can Decide if You Are The Target

A top-secret US Navy project to develop lethally armed autonomous submarine that is being developed with the Office of Naval Research. The underwater robots will…

Dancing WWII Veteran Goes Viral with Justin Timberlake Dance

Chuck Franzke is a 97-year-old World War II veteran who served in the Navy as a pilot. He recently became known for something other than…

Farewell to US 82nd AB James ‘Maggie’ Megellas

James ‘Maggie’ Megellas, one of the US Army’s most decorated officers, who served in the 82nd Airborne Division, died peacefully at home a few weeks…

Iconic Last-of-its-Kind LCT 7074 About to Go On Display

LCT 7074 is the last remaining landing craft of its kind. It participated in the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, along with 800 other…

Civil War Cannonball Exploded & Killed 140 Years After it Was Fired

Sam White was a dyed-in-the-wool Civil War fanatic. He was never happier than when he was searching for Civil War relics or restoring those that…

Archaeologists Study Remnants of SS Concentration Camp on British Soil

Researchers are studying a Nazi concentration camp on the island of Alderney for the first time since World War II. They are discovering details about…

Pearl Harbor Veteran, Edward Bloch, Dies at 97

Pearl Harbor, the morning of December 7th, 1941, nineteen-year-old Eddie Bloch, who had enlisted in the Army Air Corps in March of that year, had…

Australian Outback Could Have Been ‘Israel’ in Australia

Poet and educator Melekh Ravitsh had a dream, shared by many Jewish people who had witnessed the anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime led by Adolf…

Star Trek’s Mr Sulu Pleased California Will Apologise for the Treatment of Japanese in WW2

George Takei, Mr. Sulu in the popular Star Trek series, is very pleased that California will give a ‘long overdue’ apology for the treatment meted…

WW2 Control Tower – Yours for Just $1.4 Million

WW2 Control Tower could be yours. It’s amazing what architects and designers can do with existing structures, particularly historic structures that have been around for…