Owner Of Vietnam Dog Tag Found After 45 Years
Naismith went to Vietnam in 2010 to teach English. One day he went on to explore the place where the battle of Khe Sanh took…
D-Day Memorial And The Bedford Boys : 70th Anniversary
According to President April Cheek-Messier, this might be the last big gathering at the National D-Day Memorial, as the youngest veterans are now in their…
Berlin museum wants ancient gold tablet worth $10M back from family of Holocaust survivor
A tiny ancient tablet that was lost during the Second World War was finally returned to where an appeals court says it should belong. Originally,…
Argentina declared war on Falkland Islands oil reserves
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Argentine forces patrolling in Falkland Islands during a surprise invasion on 2nd April 1982 (2) Argentine POWs at…
Dutch Railway Museum Opposes a Monument to Utrecht Jewish Deportees
Times of Israel reports: A museum in Utrecht, The Dutch Railway Museum to be exact, is opposing a plan to erect a monument to pay…
Highly Decorated Ace Fighter Pilot, James Empey, Dies at 89.
November 21, 2013, James W. Empey died in his home at the age of 89. Empey was a fighter ace and served in two wars:…
Iruma: Japan’s Aviation Museum
Back in the 1930s was established Japan’s air force academy. Japan’s military installations were taken under the U.S. forces command after WWII and it was…
Down WWII History: Stalin’s Kamikaze Canines
If recent history saw suicide bombers, the WWII-bygone era once had Stalin’s kamikaze canines – dogs that were used as “living bombs” to destroy Nazi…
Holocaust survivor tells story of the horrors of Auschwitz
A Holocaust survivor shares the horrors that she has witnessed in Auschwitz almost 70 years after the outbreak of the Second World War. She said…
Nazi Assassin Heinrich Boere Dies Aged 92
Boere’s father was Dutch and grew up in the Netherlands; his mother was a German from Eschweiler, Germany. Heinrich moved to the Netherlands when he…
Museum on a mission to collect paintings of World War II bombers
A museum is on a mission to collect images of an aircraft from World War II painted by a local artist. The Sywell Aviation Museum…
Monuments Men: Saviours Of The Lost Arts
Corporal Lincoln Kirstein was the first men to enter the salt mine in Altaussee, Austria, after the unit that was there with him, managed to…