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The Forgotten War In S.W. Pacific: Air Raids From Australia Against The Dutch East Indies

War History Online Presents this Guest Blog from Author and Blogger Hans Wiesman. Check out his Blog and his Book.  In this Dakota Hunter Blog, you…

Harwich, Massachusetts Honors Missing WWII Pilot With Bridge Named After Him

Despite a letter in 1943 from U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Robert Jones that her husband, Navy pilot Ralph Wallace Burns was missing, she never stopped…

Holocaust Deniers: Denying The Historical Record

History states that six million Jewish people, including one and a half million children, were murdered by the Nazi regime between the years 1941-1945. Despite the…

When The French Army Invaded Germany in 1939 To Support Poland, All Did Not Go As Planned

Germany was not the first country to go on the offensive on the western front of World War Two. That first attack came from France,…

Amazing Story Of The Japanese Soldier Who Did Not Surrender Until 29 Years After The End Of WW2

After the atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan announced its surrender on August 15, 1945, bringing World War II to an…

New Film By Master Storyteller Ken Burns Tells Tale of Christians Saving Jews During Holocaust

Only five Americans are listed as Righteous Among the Nations at Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem. Righteous Among the Nations is a title recognizing non-Jews…

The Evacuation of Dunkirk, The Evacuation That Kept Britain’s Hopes Of Victory Alive

The events of May and early June 1940 were equal parts disaster and Miracle. For France, it was a complete disaster – a total military defeat by…

Legendary British WW2 Field Marshal Montgomery – “Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance, insufferable in victory”

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, widely known as Monty, was the foremost British commander of the Second World War. Popular with his troops, he was less…

Lewis Millett – Veteran Of Three Wars

Lewis Lee Millett was born in Maine on 20 December 1920. He grew up in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts in a family with a strong military…

The Curious Tale of an Extremely Jinxed Ship – The USS William D. Porter (DD-579)

During WWII, the Allies had a ship so jinxed, it destroyed itself by nearly destroying something else. And yes, you read that correctly. The USS William…

Adolf Hitler in World War 1 – Awarded Honors For Bravery Twice (Watch)

If we want to get into the mind of the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, the man who brought untold horror and misery to the world, we…

The Awesome WW2 Churchill – The British Heavy Infantry Tank (Watch)

The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill was the primary heavy infantry tank of the British Army during the first years of the Second World…