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Grandmother receives three war medals after 70 years

Ian Harvey

  Rosana Banti is about to turn 90 years old and is finally receiving recognition for helping with the Resistance. Banti will be presented with…

Peter Jackson Assisting in the Opening of a WWI Museum After Wrapping Up “The Hobbit” Trilogy

After wrapping up his The Hobbit trilogy, director Peter Jackson said in a recent interview that he is channeling his energy into assisting the launching of a…

Sir Barnes Wallis and the Stratosphere Chamber

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Sir Barnes Wallis

Sir Arthur Harris, Commanding Officer of Bomber Command during World War II, referred to Sir Barnes Wallis as a genius.  He was clearly one of…

NSA Releases Vietnam War Reports of China Capturing US Soldiers

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NSA

In an effort to resolve Missing in Action cases, the US National Security Agency (NSA) continues to review more than 7.5 million reports and documents…

The Drive to Save WWII Tales Becoming Urgent – Historians

  United States of America – There is a growing recognition among many historians that first-hand WWII tales – stories from the men and women who…

People paid £30 to be the prisoner of war in Nazi theme camp

Ian Harvey
Nazi theme camp

In Britain during the 1980s a holiday camp was set up at an unused hospital at Weyhill, near Andover in Hampshire. The basic concern of…

WWII Dambusters memorabilia will be auctioned this month

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Dambusters

During the Second World War the Allied power started their bombing mission against Germany and they targeted the dams of the Ruhr. For this mission…

Wreck of the SS Thistlegorm in the Egyptian Red Sea

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By Super Jolly for War History Online: Underwater for 68 years, a snap shot in time and beautifully preserved WWII cargo so desperately needed by Allied…

Meet Olive Bailey, the Woman Who Worked with Alan Turing Cracking Nazi Codes during WWII

Olive Bailey was only a young woman when she worked in Bletchley Park during the Second World War but at 94, she remembers it all like…

Churchill “Joyful” Over News of “Baby Killers of Scarborough”, Letter Reveals

    A recently discovered letter reveals how former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill got excited over the news about the “baby killers of Scarborough”…

Recently discovered diary reveals brutal Nazi tactics against Jews in Lodz.

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brutal Nazi tactics

The Lodz Ghetto, or Litzmannstadt Ghetto as the Germans renamed it, came into existence in late 1939 and was intended to be a collection point…

A Look Inside Ravensbruck, the Nazis’ Death Camp for Women

  Get to know the stories inside Ravensbruck, the Nazis’ death camp for women during the Second World War, as written by author Sarah Helm…