Sightings of Ghost Bombers During WW2: Strange Tales from WW2 Bomber Crews
A B-17 Flying Fortress landed perfectly at an RAF airbase and completes the full landing pattern as well. The bomber comes to a full stop;…
Pierre Ortiz: French Legionnaire, US Marine, Hollywood Actor, German Nightmare
In late 1944, a man sat in a French café wearing a long, dark cape. Around him were German officers grumbling and cursing President Roosevelt,…
Attorney Parks WWII Tank in Front of Multi-Million Dollar Home and the Neighbors are Not Pleased
Tony Buzbee is an attorney in Houston. Tony Buzbee is also a history buff. Tony Buzbee, the attorney and history buff, spent $600,000 on a…
Defying Marine Corps Regulations By Racking Up 17 Convictions, And Being Declared A Deserter, Lucas Was Awarded The Medal Of Honor That Day On Iwo Jima
For many young people, the outbreak of the greatest War this planet had ever seen would come just a little too early for them to…
Retreat Does Not Always Mean Defeat – Epic Retreats From Military History
In war, retreats aren’t always about defeat. Sometimes, they’re a deliberate tactic to gain more defensible ground, consolidate forces, encircle an enemy, or lead them…
A Look At Nazi Germany’s Love Of Heavy Tank Destroyers And Assault Guns
The tank destroyer is not really a tank, and an armored assault gun is also not really a tank which can be confusing to some…
Promotion And Controversy – The Meteoric Rise Of US General Mark W. Clark
Granted, many in modern Texas may have never heard of General Mark W. Clark, also known as General Marcus Aurelius Clarkus by his subordinates. But…
Battle of the Bulge – A Punch In The Gut
Just before The Battle of the Bulge, Allied officers drew an eighty-eight-mile line through the forests, hills, and ravines that make the region called The…
The Mysterious Death of the Legendary Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
While the Battle of Chancellorsville was Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory, it was the beginning of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s ultimate defeat. On May 2, 1863, Confederate…
Bevin Boys: One in 10 conscripts in Britain did not go to war but were sent instead to Mine Coal
Not all heroes wear capes – and neither did all conscripted men in Britain wear uniforms. In fact, some of them were clothed in old…
Shattered Hopes – Missouri officer killed aboard the second ship to carry the name USS Missouri
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…
Tommy Prince Was So Quiet, Sometimes Instead Of Killing Germans He Would Steal Their Shoes
Tommy Prince was born on October 15th, 1915, in Scanterbury Manitoba Canada in a family of eleven siblings. He left school at an early age…