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Korean War: The Spine-Tingling Heroism Of The British Who Fought For Their Lives

Ian Harvey

Corporal Jim Lucock described himself as an ordinary man who just wanted to stay alive. But in war it doesn’t matter how much you want…

Last Glorious Fight of the Glowworm

Ian Harvey

Glowworm‘s only surviving officer was the 27-years old Lieutenant Robert Ramsay, R.N. It was known that the Glowworm sank under the attack of the enemy…

Movie Shows Hitler as Evil Kung Fu Master

Hitler…a Kung Fu master? Well, everything is possible and this upcoming movie attests to that. The feared German dictator during the Second World War will…

Former Head of M15 – “My Mother’s Pigeons Saved Lives in WWII”

Dame Eliza Manningham Buller, who became head of M15 from 2002 to 2007, is set to tell the story of how her mother trained pigeons…

Epic commemoration of World War I

Ian Harvey

2014 will be the first of four years of ceremonies and events to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I. The war broke out…

Northern Ireland Imagines a Nuclear Attack

The Belfast Telegraph reports that Northern Ireland Civil Servants drew up a dossier that details what would be expected if a nuclear bomb was dropped…

WWII B-17 Pilot Signs Historic Wing

Ian Harvey

In 1943, Harvey went into a boots shop to find out what deposit he had to pay for a new pair. After the bootmaker’s shop…

Holocaust Survivors Reunite With Their ‘Manna’: The Woman Who Cared For Them After The War

Ian Harvey

Soon after the end of the Second World War, Martha found herself at a manse in Lingfield, England, surrounded by children who were under her…

WWII hero Jack Tirrell repeatedly put himself in front of enemy tanks

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) WWII hero Jack Tirrell who received four bravery medals including three MCs on three occasions during the war…

WWI Hero, 16, Awarded The Victoria Cross

Ian Harvey

In 1915, Jack was only 15 years old when he decided he should join the Navy. He was a gun sight setter on HMS Chester…

Bitter Story of Bitter Times: Holocaust Survivor Recalls Winter Months in Nazi Camps

February, 1945 – It would have been the perfect time for 13-year-old Ivor Perl’s bar mitzvah but instead the barely in his teens lad stood under…

Civil War Ship USS Westfield Recovered from Houston Ship Channel

A 150-year-old Civil War ship was recovered from the Houston Ship Channel’s bottom and restored in a five-year project that yielded countless artifacts dating way…