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…
WWII B-17 Pilot Signs Historic Wing
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…
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…
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…
Veterans Get Support to Attend Operation Market Garden’s 70th Anniversary
Lloyds staff, Church green East branch, are working at raising £10,000 to send at least 70 WWII veterans of the Parachute Regimental Association’s Redditch branch together with…
The Monuments Men: A New Campaign To Find Lost Art
Between 1945 and 1951, nearly 5 million works of art and other cultural objects stolen by the Nazis have been found and returned by Monuments…
Vienna Philharmonic revokes awards made during Nazi-era
The Vienna Philharmonic orchestra has recently revoked the awards it has given to six leading Nazis during Hitler’s rule. This move was in response to…
Austrian Journalist Claims Salt Miners Saved The Art Works And Not Clooney’s ‘Monuments Men’
According to an Austrian journalist whose book has just been published this week in Austria, the £5billion worth artworks were actually saved by a group…
Forgotten Military Medals Finally Returning Home
The Huffington Post shares a story of a Rita Dudczak in Lackawanna, New York. On December 16th, the county officials returned military medals to Ms.…
Battle of the Bulge Christmas in the Eyes of a WWII Vet
“Christmas never comes around that I don’t think of the Battle of the Bulge.” Sergeant Malcolm “Buck” Marsh Jr. spent Christmas this year surrounded by…
China, South Korea Angered by PM Shinzo Abe’s Visit to WWII Shrine
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the hated Yasukuni Shrine brought about furious reactions the country’s neighboring Asian countries South Korea and China. Abe…
Citizenship of Adolf Hitler revoked by German town after an outcry
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Adolf Hitler is photographed by his personal photographer Hugo Jaeger in upper Bavaria in the late 1930s (2)…