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Owner Of The Lost 100-year-old Teddy Bear Was Killed In Baghdad In WWI

Ian Harvey

The bear with one eye and one floppy ear, was found abandoned at Bristol Airport, in a bag together with a black and white photograph…

Battle of the Bulge: The 69th Anniversary

Ian Harvey

Every year in mid-December, WWII veterans and ambassadors from Belgium and Luxembourg, gather at Arlington National Cemetery to honor the 19,000 American Soldiers fallen during…

WWII PT305 To Be Restored In New Orleans

Ian Harvey

The boat was built at Higgins Industries in 1943 and measures 78 feet. According to Bruce Harris, director of the restoration, the boat was acquired…

Did the Nazis steal the Mona Lisa?

Ian Harvey

Over a century ago, Vincenzo Peruggia, an amateur Italian painter became responsible for the most famous act of theft. In 1911, Peruggia succeeded in stealing…

Longtime photojournalist Fred Waters dies at 86

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Fred Waters was a longtime Associated Press photographer. Since 1952, he recorded historical events from the Korean and Vietnam wars to the construction of the…

Glider Infantryman Survived Operation Market Garden and Battle of the Bulge

Ian Harvey

Carlson, the youngest of four children, grew up in Garwood, N.J. where he lived with his Swedish immigrant parents. Before the start of the war,…

Long-lost diary of top Nazi Alfred Rosenberg finally recovered and turned over to Holocaust museum

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Alfred Rosenberg was a Nazi before Adolf Hitler became one. He later on served as the Nazi’s interim leader. He is also a known author…

Barn to be turned into First World War base

Ian Harvey

A First World War pilot who buried his faithful fox terrier Mick in a cliff top wood, buried a jar, containing a 1919 penny, a…

British Graves Found In Shanghai

Ian Harvey

Many historical artifacts have been destroyed during China’s Cultural Revolution including foreign graves. Recently, the family of a Royal Ulster Riflemen discovered the man’s grave…

The Tiger is Back!

The Tank Museum’s Tiger 131 is home once again, after stealing the show on the set of Brad Pitt’s upcoming war film. The internationally renowned…

Wreaths Across America Pays Tribute to WWII Vets

Ian Harvey

On Wednesday, the organisation was greeted by over 800 young students at their school in Middletown, N.J. The children, waving American flags, attended the wreath…

U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy Visits Nagasaki Memorial

Ian Harvey

The Ambassador laid a wreath at the Nagasaki memorial, paying tribute to those who died in the terrible massacre of the Second World War. The…