Scarborough WWI Bombardment Set to be Commemorated A Century On
Scarborough will commemorate the WWI bombardment of the coastal town in the hands of the Germans during the Great War — December of 1914, to be…
Lost bodies of five airmen to be recovered after 70 years
Five soldiers from Halifax HR980 who were killed in 1943 during a night raid have never had their bodies recovered. These WWII airmen were shot…
Hanbury Crater: Britain’s biggest WWII explosion site 70 years on
Seismologists in Switzerland at first thought it was an earthquake, hardly guessing the seismograph recorded the effects of a massive explosion in far distant England.…
Fantasy Imitation of John Cairncross in “The Imitation Game”
Gayle Brinkerhoff found “The Imitation Game” to be the fantasy portrayal of her late husband John Cairncross who was an Enigma code breaker at Bletchley…
Not-Before-Seen Pictures of WWI Explosion in Halifax Revealed
Previously unseen pictures of the WWI explosion in Halifax, then the world’s biggest explosion, were recently revealed and released. The said photos were taken by a Somerset…
Tower of London: Last Commemorative Ceramic Poppy Removed
The last commemorative ceramic poppy of the inspiring project installed in the Tower of London’s moat was finally removed by the youngest and the oldest…
Propaganda by Hollywood’s Greats in War documentaries
During the Second World War some of Hollywood’s greatest movie producers and directors produced propaganda movies and presented to the public as authentic documentaries. The…
US warship under makeover
A US navy cruiser which was used during the Second World War is now found as a floating museum on the waterfront of lake Erie…
TV’s Dan Snow discovers his great-grandmother was a WWI volunteer orderly
After Dan Snow, historian and presenter from The One Show, discovered that his great-grandmother, Lady Olwen Carey Evans, worked as a volunteer aid helping wounded…
Poland: Eight Holocaust Victims Shoes Stolen
Poland – Eight Holocaust victims shoes were stolen recently from a former concentration camp now turned museum in Poland. According to reports, the theft took place between November 18…
Will the Chinese wartime forced labourers get justice this time?
An association of lawyers, academics and forced labourers and their families in China have sued two Japanese companies that forced Chinese men and women as…
Wreckage sites of 3 WW-II fighter planes at Loktak Lake identified
Seventy years have passed since the Second World War and we are still discovering previously unidentified wreckages of fighter planes and wartime artefacts. Recently, three…