Battleships and Cannons: Admiral Nelson Crushes the French Fleet At Alexandria, Egypt.
Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, the rising star of the British Royal Navy, had been pursuing the fleet of the French Republic around the Mediterranean for the…
En Route To North Africa, FDR Was Almost Killed By A Torpedo Fired By A US Navy Destroyer
There is truly no way to quantify who might be the worst crew in US Naval History, but the men of the USS William D.…
Invading Okinawa, The Biggest Amphibious Invasion In The Pacific
Codenamed Operation Iceberg, the invasion of Okinawa was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of the Second World War which started on April…
WWII’s Biggest Airlift – Over The Hump!
War History Online is pleased to present this guest blog from author and blogger Hans Weisman! Check out his book! This Dakota Hunter Blog features a…
Top 10 True Innovations of the Civil War
You often hear about how the Civil War brought submarines, iron-clad ships, or the telegraph into play, but that’s not exactly true. While they are…
Battlefield 1 Single Player Trailer: See The World and Do a Bit of Everything!
EA Dice surprised a lot of people when they revealed that their upcoming shooter game, Battlefield 1, would be set in WWI. Dice quickly steamrolled…
“What we went through” – James Belshe, WWII Veteran Earns Purple Heart for Injury Sustained in the Philippines
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Article by military historian Jeremy P. Amick. “Seventy-something years ago,” described Eldon, Mo., veteran James Belshe, a “wide-eyed…
“The Hump” – Review by Mark Barnes
If you ever subscribe to the adage ‘less is more’ look no further than this exceptional book by Al Conetto in which he describes the…
The Man Who Escaped 200 Times From A Nazi PoW Camp To Visit His Lover
For some people, escaping a German prisoner of war camp once would be enough. The first time Horace Greasley did it, he was just getting…
Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Gestapo, Who Hitler Called “The Man with the Iron Heart”
Few men in all of human history have been responsible for such monstrous acts as Reinhard Heydrich. The head of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police,…
When The Nuclear Submarine USS San Francisco Crashed Into An Undersea Mountain
Launched in 1979, the USS San Francisco is the third American ship, boat or submarine to carry a title featuring San Francisco in the name. In…
Incredible! At 96, American WW2 ‘Flying Tiger’ Veteran Rides in a P-40 Warhawk Again
Last weekend at Atlanta’s DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, Frank Losonsky, age 96, one of only three surviving members of the legendary Flying Tigers, climbed into the cockpit…