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James Vidler: The Royal Air Force veteran with a distinguished career of 50 years

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Royal Air Force

Mr James Vidler, veteran from British Royal Air Force, breathed his last at the age of 92 on 13th November, 2014. He is survived by…

Lawrence Benner, the tail gunner tells his tale

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tail gunner

Lawrence Benner, a crew member of the Lancaster bomber aircraft reflects on his journey as a tail gunner during the Second World War. A Tail…

Home Guard Was More Than Dad’s Army

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Home Guard

An air raid took place at the Vickers Aircraft Factory at Weybridge, Surrey and a section leader of the Home Guard rushed in to find…

Why the Americans lost the Vietnam War

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Vietnam War

Tony Morse, managing partner with the Spatial Analysis Group, believes that the reason that the U.S. lost the Vietnam War is because they didn’t want…

Ready to cry? He saved 669 children during the holocaust…he doesn’t know they’re sitting next to him.

Hundreds of people who were rescued as children by a man described as “Britain’s Oskar Schindler” gathered together to attend a special service in honor…

Richard Blyth pays a tribute to his fellow colleagues whom he lost in the war of Walcheren during Second World War:

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Richard Blyth

88 years old veteran soldier Richard Blyth talks about his experiences of allied invasion of Holland. There he was a part of the Combined Operation…

Mel Gibson, Andrew Garfield Set to Work on Upcoming WWII Film

Oscar-winning director and actor Mel Gibson will reportedly work with The Amazing Spiderman actor Andrew Garfield on upcoming WWII film about war vet Desmond T. Doss, the…

A Pair of Firsts?

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aircraft

Archibald Ashmore KcKellar. His name may not be familiar to many people nowadays. Seventy-five years ago, his was one of the most recognised names in…

Frontline World War II photo album found

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World War II

While serving in WWII, Frank Tomlinson, a Royal Artillery soldier with the 74th Field Regiment, took over 1000 photos chronicling his life on the front…

Dorothy Lincoln ‘Wrens’: The Cryptologist

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Dorothy Lincoln

89 years old Edmonton lady, Dorothy Lincoln, earlier known as Dorothy Winifred Shiers is among the hundreds of young women who joined the Second World…

Cold War photograph collection

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Cold War

Martin Roemers is a Dutch photographer who grew up with the Cold War, which lasted from the late 1940’s into the early 1990’s. He heard…

Top secret naval communications base sold

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top-secret naval communications base

Criggion Station was a top-secret naval communications base that was built in 1943 in Wales and used during both WWII and the Cold War. During…