We need you: WW2 veterans urged to register for VE Day and VJ Day events
Events to commemorate the anniversaries will centre on the efforts of the Allied forces from the UK, the Commonwealth and beyond.
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Feature The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's last roll of the dice to stave off disaster in the West
The Ardennes Offensive, better known as the Battle of the Bulge, was a crucial turning point in the Second World War,
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WWI Campaign launched to ensure WWI Royal Naval Air Service aviators are remembered
The campaign looks to raise thousands of pounds to create a memorial to those who served in the RNAS during the First World War.
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LGBTQ Defence Secretary promises Armed Forces LGBT compensation will be paid swiftly
John Healey also announced that veterans can apply to have their rank restored and the reason for their discharge amended.
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Navy Royal Navy flagship: A nation's strength and power symbolised by one warship
The flagship is usually a country's most powerful warship, and today the UK's strength at sea is represented by HMS Prince of Wales.
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Feature Wojtek: The bear who ate cigarettes and carried ammo for Polish troops in WW2
Soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps, commanded by General Władysław Anders, made a Syrian brown bear their mascot and eventually a corporal.
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WWI Forgotten album that sheds light on 1914 Christmas football game truce, sells for £4.7k
Here we were laughing and talking to men whom only a few hours earlier we were trying to kill, says an excerpt from the album.
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Remembrance Lost symbols restored: Imperial College remembers lives lost with renovated WW2 memorial
Two plaques lost in 1973 were restored just in time for this year's remembrance period.
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Naval History A snapshot of life on board a wartime destroyer unearthed on HMS Chiddingfold
Crew seeks to uncover the history behind the items found from the ship's Second World War predecessor.
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Veterans Hammer goes down on midget submarine helmsman's medals from WW2 Tirpitz raid
A Unique Conspicuous Gallantry Medal was among the group of four medals that Noonans auctioneers sold for £28,000.
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Feature Honouring sacrifice: A brief history of the Royal British Legion's iconic poppy
From Flanders Fields to wearing it on Remembrance Day and everything in between
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Feature Why top-secret unit's three witches emblem meant toil and trouble for the Nazis
The emblem was used by Intelligence School 9, part of MI9, during their covert operations in Holland in 1944.
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Feature How the sinking of a Second World War ship led to one of the UK's last witch trials
Medium Helen Duncan claimed to have spoken with the ghost of a sailor who died when HMS Barham sank in 1941, upsetting the Admiralty.
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Feature Great British Battle Commanders and the six reasons why they were a success
A new BFBS Forces News podcast, featuring defence analyst Michael Clarke, analyses figures from British history who were successful leaders.
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Feature SAS Daggers Drawn: Empathy and imagination, not just sabotage and slaughter
Damien Lewis' new book shows how the SAS embraced people with neurodiversity as well as fighting ability during the Second World War.
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WWI British West Indies Regiment finally honoured after a century of silence
A plaque is unveiled at a church in Ypres to commemorate the soldiers who left the Caribbean to fight for Britain in the First World War.