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The Civil War Trust announces Campaign 1776

Ian Harvey
Civil War Trust

It has been 240 years since the first shot was fired in what would later be named the Revolutionary War.  This war represented a turning…

Fury, Hetzer, Combat Dealers & Bruce Crompton

Mark Barnes

SUFFOLK PUNCH In the wake of the success of Combat Dealers and the impact of Fury, Mark Barnes spends a day with Axis Track Services…

How a Group Of researchers are helping locate lost heroes from the Second World War

Ian Harvey
Second World War

The western Pacific islands of Palau were a popular battle ground throughout the Second World War. Both the allies and the Japanese sought after the…

Leyte Gulf Landing Celebrates Its 70th Year

70 years after WWII General Douglas MacArthur, along with over 100,000 Allied troops, landed at the Red Beach, Palo, Leyte, the country and dignitaries from other nations marked…

Lost WWI Medal Turns Up on eBay After 77 Years

Son couldn’t believe he’ll find his father’s WWI medal he lost some 77 years ago auctioned off in eBay recently. When Ben Eggleston lost his father’s…

Sainsbury Slammed as ‘Deceptive’ Over Plans to Knock Down WWI Memorial After Releasing Touching Christmas Advert

UK retailer Sainsbury was recently slammed as ‘blatantly deceptive’ when its plans of knocking down the Memorial Stadium in Bristol, along with the inscribed gates…

Missing WWII Serviceman Hugh Moore Home After 70 Years

Elkton, Maryland – After going missing when the B-24D Liberator he was serving as an engineer crashed on the 10th of April, 1944, Tech. Sgt. Hugh Moore became no more…

The Ultimate Reunion of a Father and His Son

Ian Harvey
Father

It was the year of 1975 when from Florence, Italy Rudiger started his journey for Egypt. The purpose with which Rudger Heim came to Egypt…

London: WWII Grenade Sparked Lockdown in a Police Station

London – Chingford Police Station, situated northeast of London, went under a full-scale lockdown when an elderly couple came in hand-carrying a WWII grenade. 76-year-old Doreen…

UK Remembrance Day Celebrations

Ian Harvey
Remembrance Day Celebrations

Queen Elizabeth led the commemoration ceremony at the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance Day.  The crowd observed two minutes two minutes of silence before the…

World War Two: Hitler’s Abandoned Luxury Resort

Ian Harvey

Located on the Rügen Island in Germany, the Prora beach resort was a World War Two era project expected to showcase the Third Reich’s best architecture.…

Tower of London Ceramic Poppies Removed; Leaves a Pit of Mud

Volunteers have almost completely removed all the ceramic poppies installed in the moat of the Tower of London and now all that’s left in its…