Forgotten Letter From WWI Sailor Delivered After Almost A Century
The forgotten letter, signed “Your Blue Jacket Boy,” was dated 1916, and was found behind a fireplace in Kirkwall, Orkney. It was addressed to the…
Abe Urged To Admit Wartime Atrocities
Tomiichi Murayama, Japan’s former Prime Minister said this week that Japanese leader Shinzo Abe must honor the Murayama Statement and asked him to admit on…
Lee Miller: The Woman In Hitler’s Bathtub
Her entire life was an adventure, since she was the only female photographer allowed on the front line in Europe, during World War Two and…
Wis. WWII Vet Was Lobotomized By Govt. After War
His story and that of other 2,000 other Second World War veterans who suffered from mental problems and who received the procedure following the end…
Archaeologists unearth remains of 21 German soldiers preserved in WWI Shelter
The remains of 21 German soldiers were found buried in a well-preserved WWI shelter almost a hundred years after their death. The soldiers were members…
Watch: Nazi Germany’s Heavy Tank: Panzer VIII Maus
In late 1944 the Germans completed the first Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus, the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever to see the light of day. The…
Veterans Earn Money to Visit National Arboretum in Staffordshire
The Specsavers Hearing Center on Claremont Street in Shrewsbury, served coffee and sweets to help reach its Help for Heroes goal over the course of…
100 Years Later, WWI Sparks A New Battle In Britain
The initial plans included schoolchildren visiting battlefields, communities working on restoring monuments and the nation remembering a war that lasted four years and killed more…
2,4-D Herbicide, a chemical used in Agent Orange, could fuel the upsurge of Enlist Crops in the American Market
The Agent Orange made a mark in history owing to the employment of the chemical during the Vietnam War. It is one of the nine…
Howard Mercer Witnessed Kamikaze Attacks During World War II
He was only 17 years old when he was serving on the LCI 353 mortar ship in the South Pacific, during the invasion of Okinawa,…
Red Cross Workers Were Suspected Of Being German Spies In Second World War
In his new book, James Crossland writes about the relations between Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Second World War,…
Wisconsin Man Recalls Fighting In A Segregated Unit During WWII
However, for certain black man, the recognition and respect came much later or in some cases, never. William Cole, 90, doesn’t have the most pleasant…