WWII Hero Saved Flag from Kamikaze Attacks
Bill Kelly keeps a photograph in his room at the Claremont Center nursing home where he lives. The picture is of him in a football…
The Effects of the Lonely Queen Still Seen Among the Trees of Norway
The effects of the Second World War are still around us, affecting us in subtle, strange, and fundamental ways. One of the visible ways in…
Marine Killed in WWII Returned Home for Burial
Corporal Raymond A. Barker died fighting with the US Marine Corps in World War II but his body has only recently been discovered and identified.…
54 Liberators were shot down: Airman from ill-fated WWII mission identified & sent home for burial
Second lieutenant William H. Harth, Jr. was a bombardier on a B-24D heavy bomber in World War II. The Columbia, South Carolina, native was part…
The “Nazi grandma” who apparently went on the run is jailed for Holocaust denial
German authorities recently apprehended an elderly German neo-Nazi who tried to escape a jail sentence for Holocaust denial by going on the run. Usula Haverback,…
Remnants of Historic WWII “Bridge at Remagen” for Sale in Germany
Authorities in Germany are selling part of the Ludendorff Bridge, also know as the ¨Bridge at Remagen.¨ The two towers on the eastern portion of…
World War I Soldier’s Diary Paints A Grim Tale of The War To End All Wars
The journal of a young World War I soldier, Norman Gray, went up for auction in April 2018. The diary describes the places he went…
Medal of Honor Recipient Cleared the Way for Victory at Iwo Jima
Hershel “Woody” Williams served in the Marine Corps and in the Marine Corps Reserve for twenty years. When he retired, he had made Chief Warrant…
D-Day Veteran Dies at Age of 91 – took part in one of the most daring, most successful & perhaps least recognised raids of WW2
When Kenneth Parker landed on Gold Beach, Normandy, on D-Day, he was only 17 years old. He was part of one of the most daring,…
Interesting collection of weapons from WWI sold at auction
In January 2018, C&T Auctions of Ashford, Kent, in the south-east of England, held a military auction. There were the usual buttons, medals, insignia, belt…
Beautiful Love Story: Young British women who fell in love with German soldiers stationed on the island
An upcoming movie is set during a dark time in Britain’s history. Starring Lily James of Downton Abbey fame, “The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel…
Wartime Family Heirloom Turns Out to Be An Unexploded Bomb
A family heirloom that was brought back home after a British soldier who’d done military service in Japan and Asia and passed down through the…