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There has been an appeal made to locate the relatives of the Lancaster bomber crew

There has been an appeal made to locate the relatives of the Lancaster bomber crew who died when their aircraft crashed in Lincolnshire during the…

Silver Bullion Recovered from the SS Gairsoppa to be Made into the Britannia Coin

In Llantrisant, the Royal Mint is striking a set of silver coins from recently discovered bullion from a merchant ship which was sunken during the…

19 Missing Soldiers from WWII Honored by two Veterans

Ian Harvey
Missing Soldiers

A WWII aircraft was used recently in a service to nineteen men who went MIA during the war. The missing soldiers are believed dead, their…

Drones are new? They were used in WWII!

Ian Harvey

While there is much talk about the use of drones by today’s military, this is generally referred to as a completely new innovation; it is…

Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre Investigated Further

Ian Harvey
Oradour-sur-Glane

In 1944, Oradour-sur-Glane was the site of a major massacre. Werner Christukat was a member of the Nazi SS at the time, and his involvement…

Life and WWI As Captured from the Lenses of Christina Broom

Museum of London features the collection of some 2,500 photographs taken by Christina Broom, the first female press photographer of the United Kingdom. Her trove…

Texas governor Rick Perry to travel to southern Pacific to join hunt for missing Second World War fighters

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Texas Governor Rick Perry is planning to travel to the South Pacific to help in the search for missing American Second World War fighters. The…

WWII Pilot Ludwig Havlak Visits Old Plane “Witchcraft”

Ian Harvey
WWII pilot

Many surviving WWII pilots are relatively nervous about seeing their old planes for the first time in so many years. It seems like a reasonable…

RAF Parachute Battalion Mutiny of 1946 in Malaya

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) The Royal Air Force police interrogating a Korean prison camp guard in Malaya during 1945-46 (2) British Army…

Hundreds turn out to say farewell to WWII veteran who died with no surviving relatives after campaign to give him a hero’s send off

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Army veteran: John Campbell, who served in the Second World War and died without any surviving relatives, had a send-off befitting his heroism after 500…

Alternate Endings for WWII – What was possible?

Ian Harvey

Every war is, essentially, a massive chain of cause and effect. WWII was an extreme example of this to the very end. The very entrance…

The Battle of Jutland Led to Heavy WWI Casualties

Ian Harvey
Battle of Jutland

Not many are aware of the full effect that the Battle of Jutland had over the rest of WWI. In a war fraught with innovation,…