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Giving Up Their Lives For The Emperor – Officers Killed in Napoleon’s Peninsular War

Fought between 1807 and 1814, the Peninsula War was one of the most important theaters of the Napoleonic Wars. Due to the limits of communication…

The Sinking of KMS Blucher At The Dawn Of World War Two

Gabe Christy

It was a chilly April day in 1940 when the Phoney War ended for Norway. Snow still sat on the hills around Drøbak Sound, just…

General Truscott, Who Apologized To The Dead Soldiers on Memorial Day 1945

Jeff Edwards

When asked to give a Memorial Day speech in 1945, General Lucian Truscott who had just spent the past 3 years retaking Europe from Nazi…

The United States Marine Corps At Guadalcanal – One of the Hardest Battles of the War

One of the most famous battles in the history of the United States Marine Corps, Guadalcanal takes its name from a small volcanic island in…

With His Brother KIA On Crete, This Sniper Stalked And Killed 33 German Snipers

Jeff Edwards

Men who have endured combat together have a special bond that has famously been characterized as being like a “Band of Brothers.” One can only…

A Bridge Too Far: The Battle For Arnhem

Operation Market Garden was one of the boldest moves by Allied forces in the Second World War. The ambition shown in this plan proved greater…

His Christianity Drove Him To Try To Oppose The Nazi Party… From Within

A devout Christian, he joined the Nazi regime and then later tried to oppose it. When that did not work, he hatched a new plan…

Wernher von Braun: Engineer For Both The German And The U.S. Forces

Holly Godbey

It may be surprising to learn that one of the men responsible for the first U.S. Space Satellite, Explorer I, as well as the lunar…

The Battle of Tarawa: 76 Hours of Hell – 5,700 Dead for Twelve Square Miles

The Battle of Tarawa was one of the more terrible American experiences in the Pacific theater of World War Two. It was one that would…

This True Leader Stormed Multiple Japanese Machine Guns In Burma Until Mortally Wounded

Jeff Edwards

Oxford scholar and founder of a literary magazine are just a couple of honors to which a young man might aspire and find himself on…

World War Two: The Long Struggle for New Guinea

When the Japanese invaded New Guinea in early 1942, they began a struggle for control of the island which would last until the end of…

“We Have A Responsibility” – Sister shares story of brother’s ultimate sacrifice during World War II

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…