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The Great War No Image Could Capture

Ian Harvey

There is this picture, now housed by the Imperial War Museum, that has been taken in September 1916, following the end of the Battle of…

Military Parade In Honour Of WWII Tank Commander From Northampton

Ian Harvey

Reg Spittles from Kingsthorpe Hollow, was born in 1918 and started working at the Crockett and Jones shoe factory just after he finished school. He…

Long Term War companion Pine Island Was There In WWII, Korean War and Vietnam

Ian Harvey

Pine Island got her name after the Pine Island Sound and there were other three ships in her class: Currituck Sound, Norton Sound, Salisbury Sound.…

Rolls Of Honour Have Been Removed From Church

Ian Harvey

Rev Michael Preston has been vicar of St Barnabas since 1986. The minister from Temple Road, Epsom, remembers the rolls being received by Surrey History…

World War II vet tells story of first atomic bombing by recollection

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  Philip Matranga, now 92 years old, silenced audiences in the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum when he shared his recollection of the atomic…

Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow) – fastest piston engine fighter of WW2

Jack Beckett

During the Second World War, the Dornier company was building a radically different airplane, the Do 335 Pfeil (“Arrow”). Having a unique “push-pull” layout and…

Top 10 Nazi Myths

Ian Harvey

Number 10 – The Ark Of The Covenant The Ark, which is said to have disappeared between 597 and 586 BC was most wanted by…

WWII ‘Safe’ Ships Went Down To Save Soldiers

Ian Harvey

Australian archaeologist Michael Bendon was working in north-west Crete, in 2008. He was helping excavate an ancient 67BC town, destroyed by the Romans and which…

Glenn Beck’s Verdict: Lone Survivor is “the best war film I’ve ever seen”

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Famous Fox News commentator Glenn Beck was simply awestruck. In fact, he claims that the movie, Lone Survivor, may be “the best war film ever…

Online photowall to pay homage to fallen U.S. soldiers in Vietnam War

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Photos of some of the faces of the fallen U.S. soldiers in Vietnam War- Private first class James…

Surrendered Telegrams May Change Course of WWI History

A stash of 66 telegrams which were sent to the German High Seas armada in 1918 may compel historiographers to make some revisions on the…

WWII Vet tells story of bold raid on one of the German navy’s largest battleship – the Tirpitz

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Commander John Lorimer is the last of the twelve brave soldiers who went to raid one the German navy’s largest battleships in Europe and “pride…