Heritage Lottery Fund Releases Major Grant to the Northampton Museum
Royal &Derngate, along with the Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, lead Northampton in the world of culture already. Now they have a little more leeway…
Public Offenders Could be Selected to Restore Surrey’s Monuments
Public offenders could be made to help clean up Redhill’s war memorial before the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. The…
Michigan-Man Andrew Kach Receives Medal for Service in Vietnam
Private first class Andrew Kach of the United States Army received a ceremony in Brighton Township recently, during which he was given the Bronze Star…
US Vietnam War veteran with cancer receives claims for exposure to Agent Orange in Okinawa
Loaded: A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter sits by unidentified barrels at Naha Military Port in the late ’60s. | COURTESY OF MICHAEL JONES Another…
Former Woman Who Worked at Auschwitz Accused of Prisoner Crueltly
A woman now known as Gisela S. was a prison guard at the notorious internment camp in Auschwitz where she was responsible for the mistreatment…
Firing WWII Spitfire guns after they have been buried for 70 years in a bog!
Six Browning machine guns have been discovered in 2011 buried near the Irish site of a 1941 Spitfire crash. Having been covered in peat…
WWI Allied Officers Feared Stray Dog and Cats Could Be Spies
In preparation for the WWI centenary this month, the National Archives are releasing new documentation, one of which suggests a dog and two cats may…
Woman Sues University of Oklahoma over Stolen Artwork
Leone Meyer, a French woman, recently filed a lawsuit against the University Of Oklahoma (OU) in an attempt to recover a 128 year old piece…
Patrick Gallagher of the Vietnam War May Receive Honors Long After Death
Lance Corporal Patrick Gallagher, Irish immigrant who served in the Marines during the Vietnam War, made himself a hero on July 18, 1966. He had…
Man Relates His Time as a Japanese Hostage in WWII
Rupert Wilkinson lived with his mother and sister in Manila during the 1942 period of Japanese invasion. With their father away at war as a…
Paravene, a Unique underwater mine-sweeping WWII Weapon, Found in East Mayo
The paravene, an underwater mine-sweeping device that was used in the Second World War by the British Army, has washed on the shores of Lake…
The Nazis, Auschwitz and the Man Named Wilhelm Brasse
He was forced by the Nazis to capture images that would haunt him throughout his lifetime…this is the story of the Nazis, the camp named Auschwitz and…