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A Pacifican’s Tale Of The Airflift to WWII China

Ian Harvey
China

The servicemen who used to fly the China-Burma-India airlift during World War II, delivered many important supplies to Chiang Kai-shek and United States Army Air…

The battlefields where you can mark 100 years since the start of WW1

Ian Harvey
battlefields

1. Last Post at Ypres’ Menin Gate: One shouldn’t miss the Last Post at Ypres’ Menin Gate, a short tribute paid every night at 8pm,…

Wartime Ammunition Still Rotting In German Waters

Ian Harvey

  Tourists on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom can sometimes be seen collecting what they think is amber stone, without realizing it is nothing…

Treasure Hunters Dig For Hitler’s Gold

Ian Harvey

According to parliament member and treasure hunter Heinz Peter Haustein, the team has located an area under the surface which appears to be filled with…

Stories Of 1916 Irish Volunteers Stored In New Digital Archives

Ian Harvey

The first collection includes more than 10,000 documents on servicemen and women of the Irish Volunteers, Citizen Army, Hibernian Rifles, the Irish Republican Army, Cumann…

Unseen First World War Photographs Show Troops At Play

Ian Harvey
First World War

The unseen diary of a young nurse aboard the medical ships at Gallipoli has revealed new photographs depicting the everyday life of soldiers during the…