Jinny McCormick

Jinny McCormick is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Jinny McCormick:

Five Mysterious Treasures From WW2 Which Are Still Missing (Watch)

Hundreds of tons of gold, 13,000 pounds of precious amber, more than hundreds of thousands of diamonds, even the fossilized remains of Peking Man and…

Amazing Story Of Heroism – JFK Was Awarded The Navy and Marine Corps Medal In WWII (Watch)

On a dark night in August of 1943, young Jack Kennedy is cruising silently through the waters of the South Pacific near the Solomon Islands…

10 Biggest Nuclear Explosions In Military History

Most of us have seen footage or photographs of the explosions at Nagasaki and Hiroshima: the mushroom cloud, the radius, the devastation. Those, however, were…

1898: The Beginning Of The Spanish-American War

Manning a remote island fort, seemingly without any imminent danger on the horizon, must have made for a fairly comfortable post. That was the situation on…

Three Amazing Stories Of Humanity And Compassion From Throughout The Second World War

Even during WWII, one of the largest and most deadly conflicts in recent history, there were moments of humanity and compassion. Here are three of these…

Then And Now: Video of Hitler’s Berghof Offers A Stunning New Perspective (Watch)

This mesmerizing 52-minute video takes you on a walking tour of the picturesque yet disturbing sites of Adolf Hitler’s mountain hideaway. From an aerial view,…

The Stories Behind 10 War Songs Which Should Be Remembered

Every war needs a song, we have collected ten songs from the past 300 years that were popular in war. A trip down memory lane!…

Meet the Supermarine Spitfires – THE British Fighter of WWII

In early September of 2016, the Imperial War Museum presented an airshow at Duxford, U.K. to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the formation of the…

Original Footage – WWI Flight Training From 1918 – Mind-Blowing Early Flyers (Watch)

The United States declared war on Germany in April of 1917 and began preparing a force to fight from the sky. Hundreds of cadets, with…

Ham & Jam – The Daring Glider Operation To Take Pegasus Bridge

On the night before D-Day, as part of the Allied invasion of Normandy, 181 men of the Glider Infantry of the British 6th Airborne Division…

Undersea Stealth: The First Submarines To Ever Sink Ships – In The American Civil War

The submarines of the United States Civil War were not the first to appear on the sea. The successful use of submersibles dates to Alexander…

Weird Weapons: The Bizarre de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle (Watch)

Military engineers often come up with nifty but strangely odd designs for people navigation but seldom any as weird as the Aerocycle. Whether called the…