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WAR HISTORY ONLINE Top stories of today [Horror Of The Death Railway, Japan’s Project For WW2 Prisoners Of War]( [Horror Of The Death Railway, Japan’s Project For WW2 Prisoners Of War]( The Death Railway is only one of the names describing the Japanese project built in 1943 to provide support to its forces during World War II.… [Read more »]( [Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, The WW2 Japanese Plan to Unleash Biological Warfare on the USA]( [Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, The WW2 Japanese Plan to Unleash Biological Warfare on the USA]( World War II introduced the international community to a host of new horrors: Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps dedicated to death, Japan’s air-led destruction that turned… [Read more »]( [10 Facts: Japanese Admiral Yamamoto – The Architect Of The Pearl Harbor Attack]( [10 Facts: Japanese Admiral Yamamoto – The Architect Of The Pearl Harbor Attack]( Isoroku Yamamoto was the Japanese Imperial Navy Admiral and Commander-in-chief who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941. He was hated by U.S.… [Read more »]( [From The Roman Republic To The Third Reich: Four Other Battles Fought At Thermopylae]( [From The Roman Republic To The Third Reich: Four Other Battles Fought At Thermopylae]( The Battle of Thermopylae was quite the epic stand. We have talked about the bravery of the Spartans a thousand times over and made multiple… [Read more »]( [The Versailles Peace Treaty – Ending The Great War In 1918]( [The Versailles Peace Treaty – Ending The Great War In 1918]( The treaty of Versailles was one of several peace treaties which signaled the end of the devastating years of World War I. It sealed the end… [Read more »]( [As A 16 Year Old Kid, Young Jack Faced Off With The German Fleet And Was Awarded The Victoria Cross]( [As A 16 Year Old Kid, Young Jack Faced Off With The German Fleet And Was Awarded The Victoria Cross]( It is estimated that up to one-third of British Sailors in World War I was under the age of 18. Many lied about their age… [Read more »]( [10 Medieval Knightly Orders – And What Made Each One Unique]( [10 Medieval Knightly Orders – And What Made Each One Unique]( Combining knightly warfare and a monastic lifestyle, the knightly crusading orders were one of the strongest institutions of medieval Europe. Through them, men sought a… [Read more »]( [1898: Spanish at Guam Thought the Attacking USS Charleston Fired Salute Shots & Asked For Gunpowder To Return the Gesture]( [1898: Spanish at Guam Thought the Attacking USS Charleston Fired Salute Shots & Asked For Gunpowder To Return the Gesture]( Manning a remote island fort, seemingly without any imminent danger on the horizon, must have made for a fairly comfortable post. That was the situation on… [Read more »]( [“Never Give Way to Barbarians” The British Abyssinian Expedition of 1868: A Matter of Honor]( [“Never Give Way to Barbarians” The British Abyssinian Expedition of 1868: A Matter of Honor]( It began with the taking of eight British civilian hostages in a faraway country about which most people in Britain knew nothing and cared less. By… [Read more »]( [10 Biggest Nuclear Explosions In Military History]( [10 Biggest Nuclear Explosions In Military History]( Most of us have seen footage or photographs of the explosions at Nagasaki and Hiroshima: the mushroom cloud, the radius, the devastation. Those, however, were… [Read more »]( [With Suicidal Courage, Commander Ernest Evans Took on 4 Japanese Battleships near Leyte, With 3 Destroyers]( [With Suicidal Courage, Commander Ernest Evans Took on 4 Japanese Battleships near Leyte, With 3 Destroyers]( Just as they were heading into action having witnessed the overwhelming enemy fleet ahead of them, it is reported that Commander Ernest Evans of the… [Read more »]( [The Day That The USA Invaded Russia And Fought The Red Army]( [The Day That The USA Invaded Russia And Fought The Red Army]( The US Armed Forces and the Red Army, although great rivals, only once met in battle. Even though during the Cold War a number of… [Read more »]( [WWII Shipwreck Explored For First Time In Almost 75 Years]( [WWII Shipwreck Explored For First Time In Almost 75 Years]( On the 7th June 1942, the Coast Trader, an unremarkable coastal freighter plied her trade along the western coast of the USA sailed out of… [Read more »]( [Napoleon’s Great Military Innovations Might Not Have Been As Original They Seemed]( [Napoleon’s Great Military Innovations Might Not Have Been As Original They Seemed]( The success of Napoleon Bonaparte stands as a testament to his extraordinary talent as a general. For twenty years, his armies dominated the battlefields of… [Read more »]( [Resurrecting a Sherman – World War II era tank restored through time and talents of local volunteers]( [Resurrecting a Sherman – World War II era tank restored through time and talents of local volunteers]( By Jeremy P. Amick who writes on behalf of the Silver Star Families of America. For nearly five decades, an M4A3E8 Sherman tank sat abandoned… [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:](