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In 1935, A Team Of Nazi Explorers Set Out To Begin A Colony On The Amazon River

Deep within Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, there’s a Nazi grave flanked by a towering cross with a swastika in a cemetery close to the isolated…

Long Journey Of A Medieval Tapestry Which Decorated Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest

A 16th-century tapestry that once hung in Adolf Hitler’s retreat high in the Bavarian Alps was recently returned to Germany after a 65-year disappearance. The…

New Expansions For World War Two First Person Shooter Game From New World Interactive

“Day of Infamy” is a standalone expansion to 2014’s “Insurgency.”  It’s a First-Person-Shooter based on World War II and has just entered Early Access Beta…

After More Than 70 Years, A WW2 Pilot From Wisconsin Is Recovered In France

A group of volunteers from the UW Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project have successfully recovered a plane that was shot down in France…

Amazing Story Of Veteran Who Refused To Abandon His Mission In Spite Of Terrible Wounds

Ken Cranefield served in the No 233 Squadron of the RAF during World War II. He dropped supplies to the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem…

Oldest American WWII Veteran May Have To Leave The Home He Built Himself

The oldest living US veteran of World War II likes to sit on the porch of the house he built on the east side of…

Christine Granville: One of the Early Leaders of Female Special Ops Agents

Born Krystyna Skarbek in Poland, Christine Granville became one of the most important early female players in the British Special Ops. Working in Nazi-occupied Poland…

World War II Veteran Receives Medals Decades After Service

Ed Ross, who served on the USS Chandeleur (AV-10) during the invasion of Okinawa in 1945, has recently been awarded his service medals. United States…

OSS Members To Be Recognized in 2017 With Congressional Gold Medal

Before there was a CIA, Gen. William “Wild Bill” Donovan led the Office of Strategic Services, a top-secret group whose job was to change the…

Smoothie With Swastika Label Causes Complaints And Raises Questions About Culture And History

In East London, England, a shopper looking to get something to drink and saw what appeared, at first glance, to be a Nazi swastika on…

“American Survivor” – The Bataan Memorial Death March, And The Only Survivor Who Walks In The Event

War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Staff Sgt. Ken Scar. WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. – The start of the 27th annual…

“Addle Strife” – Director Presents His New WW2 Short Movie – Watch The Trailer Here

Director Karl Ryan Erikson presents us with the trailer for his new short WW2 film “Addle Strife” Addle Strife is a fictional short film that highlights…