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WAR HISTORY ONLINE Top stories of today [Raiders Of The Pacific: Pt-Boat Mosquitos & Pby Catalina Black Cats As Rogue Sharks, Vol.1.]( [Raiders Of The Pacific: Pt-Boat Mosquitos & Pby Catalina Black Cats As Rogue Sharks, Vol.1.]( War History Online presents this Guest Article from respected Blogger and Author Hans Wiesman. If you might have old Catalina photos (from wartime or post-war… [Read more »]( [Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Gestapo, Who Hitler Called “The Man with the Iron Heart”]( [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,… [Read more »]( [Hitler’s Vision Of Germania Still Casts Its Long Shadow Over Berlin]( [Hitler’s Vision Of Germania Still Casts Its Long Shadow Over Berlin]( In the south of Berlin, there is a massive pillar; one of the few remnants of the Nazis’ attempts to make Berlin the capital of… [Read more »]( [How to Lose the War in 100 Days – Give The Eastern Front to Himmler]( [How to Lose the War in 100 Days – Give The Eastern Front to Himmler]( The headline may come to a surprise to many. Wasn’t Heinrich Himmler the person behind the SS and the Holocaust? Surely he wasn’t in command… [Read more »]( [49 Men Would Receive the Victoria Cross During the Battle of Somme Including These 9 on the First Day]( [49 Men Would Receive the Victoria Cross During the Battle of Somme Including These 9 on the First Day]( In the 70 years following World War II only 15 men have been awarded the Commonwealth’s highest military honor. And yet during one five-month long… [Read more »]( [The beginning of the end for the Teutonic Knights, Grunwald 1410]( [The beginning of the end for the Teutonic Knights, Grunwald 1410]( For more than two hundred years the might of the Order of Teutonic Knights had been steadily growing. It was forged in 1190, in the… [Read more »]( [Jimmy Doolittle Led The First Mission To Bomb Japan – Against All the Odds]( [Jimmy Doolittle Led The First Mission To Bomb Japan – Against All the Odds]( Often, war is no different than your average street fight regardless of how crude that might seem. When a man is punched in the nose,… [Read more »]( [An Unexpected Partnership in WW2: Nazi Germany and the Republic of China]( [An Unexpected Partnership in WW2: Nazi Germany and the Republic of China]( Look at these photos – a Nazi German officer and Wehrmacht troops, right? Wrong. A quick first glance at these photos would have most military… [Read more »]( [10 Facts: Cathay Williams, America’s First Black Female Soldier]( [10 Facts: Cathay Williams, America’s First Black Female Soldier]( Cathay Williams was pressed into service in 1861 by the Union Army in Missouri, enlisted as a man in 1866, and served in the Indian… [Read more »]( [6 Less Well Known Facts About The Infamous Battle of the Somme]( [6 Less Well Known Facts About The Infamous Battle of the Somme]( 1. The Battle of the Somme was originally meant to be predominantly a French offensive. The Battle of the Somme was first planned in late… [Read more »]( [By Sacrificing Himself Coastguard Douglas Munro Saved 500 Marines From Being Slaughtered]( [By Sacrificing Himself Coastguard Douglas Munro Saved 500 Marines From Being Slaughtered]( The United States Coast Guard was founded on a tradition of taking small boats into dangerous conditions to save lives. This skill made Coast Guard… [Read more »]( [An Island Country Goes to War – The Irish at the Somme]( [An Island Country Goes to War – The Irish at the Somme]( The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 had an unusual effect in Ireland. In a place where there had already been conflict and… [Read more »]( [It Took A Huge Effort To Keep Armies Supplied During The Hundred Years War]( [It Took A Huge Effort To Keep Armies Supplied During The Hundred Years War]( Far from home and at constant threat of attack, the armies of the Hundred Years War between England and France were reliant on supply lines… [Read more »]( [Things Nearly Went Nuclear When the Chinese Stole a Soviet Tank]( [Things Nearly Went Nuclear When the Chinese Stole a Soviet Tank]( In 1900, Russia signed the Treaty of Beijing which gave them Outer Manchuria and other Chinese lands. When both countries became communist, their nagging border… [Read more »]( [Sinking the Tirpitz, Sister to the Bismarck and the Heaviest European Battleship Ever]( [Sinking the Tirpitz, Sister to the Bismarck and the Heaviest European Battleship Ever]( The story of the World War II German battleship Bismarck is legendary. The massive warship was destroyed by British ships and planes and then scuttled… [Read more »]( [Bringing Home The 8 Million Boys After WWII; Operation Magic Carpet]( [Bringing Home The 8 Million Boys After WWII; Operation Magic Carpet]( Victory in Europe – what happens next? After victory had been declared in Europe and the Second World War had come to an end with… [Read more »]( [Courage And Valour – New Zealanders In The Italian Campaign of WWII]( [Courage And Valour – New Zealanders In The Italian Campaign of WWII]( The largely forgotten story of New Zealand’s contribution to the liberation of Italy between 1943 and 1945 is being told in a free podcast series… [Read more »]( Timera, 901 N. Pitt St., Suite 325, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, United States You may [unsubscribe]( or [change your contact details]( at any time. [Powered by:](