The Famous Messerschmitt Bf109 – Facts You May Not Know
The most famous German fighter plane of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf109 played a hugely important part in that conflict. First Flight The…
Breaking Barriers and Fighting Germans: First Indian Pilot in WWI – Hardit Singh Malik
Hardit Singh Malik was the first Indian to serve as a pilot in the British air force. Indians who were studying in Britain during the…
The Rosenbergs: Willing to Die for Communism
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American communists who were executed on June 19, 1953, on charges of smuggling atomic secrets to the USSR. Julius was…
Vietnam War Hero the Focus of a New Motion Picture
It was April 11, 1966, Cam My, Republic of Vietnam, and the Army’s 1st Infantry Division started taking heavy casualties in a protracted firefight. William…
Taos Warrant Officer Trains Next Generation
War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jeremy P. Ämick, who is a military historian and writes on behalf of the Silver Star Families…
Landwhale Ahoy! French Super Tank Char 2C – photos and video
World War I saw the dawn of a variety of new weapons. Vivid experimenting with vehicles was affected by continually changing battlefields. However, many engineers…
Object 1161 – Hidden Soviet Bunker
During the Cold War, underground command posts were actively built in the Soviet Union. In 1986, a large construction project was started in the forest…
Clever Soviets – How the USSR got Missiles to Cuba Without Detection
One of the Soviet Union’s finest military operations was the secret deployment of nuclear missiles and tens of thousands of servicemen to Cuba in 1962.…
Operation Eagle Claw – The Disaster that Changed American Special Operations
The April 24th Op is a major event in the history of the United States’ Special Forces operations not just because it was among the…
Warrant Officer 5 got Her Start in WAC and as MP
War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jeremy P. Ämick, who is a military historian and writes on behalf of the Silver Star Families…
Canadians Unable to Sell Obsolete Leopard Tanks
The Canadian military is stuck with 50 decommissioned Leopard 1C2 after modernizing with the Leopard 2. An attempt to sell the older tanks to Jordan…
The L-39 Albatros – Czech Engineering at Its Finest
The Aero L-39 Albatros is a high-performance jet trainer and light-ground attack aircraft. It was developed by Aero Vodochody in the 1960s in Czechoslovakia. Along…