David Dushman: Last Surviving Auschwitz Liberator Dies Aged 98
David Dushman was the last surviving Allied soldier involved in the liberation of the death camp at Auschwitz.
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D-Day D-Day: British Normandy Memorial Unveiled In France On 77th Anniversary
The opening ceremony, featuring a message from Prince Charles, took place at the site in Ver-sur-Mer.
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WWII D-Day: The Normandy Landings In Pictures
D-Day – codenamed Operation Neptune – involved more than 156,000 Allied troops and thousands of vessels and aircraft.
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Stories D-Day Secrets And Deception Games
Learn more about the critical, lesser-known operations that helped with the success of D-Day.
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WWII The Days After D-Day: What Happened Next
D-Day was just the start – the Battle of Normandy soon followed.
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D-Day D-Day 1944: The Unsung Heroes' Story
Learn how the invasion of Normandy was so much more than just an amphibious assault on five beaches...
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D-Day D-Day: British Normandy Memorial To Be Unveiled On 77th Anniversary
The Allied invasion of Normandy, known as D-Day, took place on 6 June 1944, and was the largest amphibious assault ever launched.
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WWII Crowland Buffalo: How a WW2 LVT was unearthed after 74 years underground
The buried amphibious vehicle was one of 16 Buffalo LVT landing craft deployed to protect the town of Crowland from floods in 1947.
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WWII 'A Bloody Good Fight' - The Allied Invasion Of Europe
As the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, the fiercest battles of WWII lay ahead of them
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Aircraft 'Secret Spitfires' Memorial To Be Unveiled In July
The memorial will be a life-sized replica of a MK-9 Spitfire built during the Second World War by the 'Secret Workforce'.
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Feature Bismarck: What was the German battleship and how was it sunk?
The Bismarck was the pride of the German Navy and her sinking followed one of the most dramatic chases in modern naval history.
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WWII 'I couldn't speak French': WW2 veteran whose Normandy landing led to marriage
Decorated veteran Bill Silvester landed in France in 1944 and went on to meet his future wife who was washing troops' clothes.
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WWII HMS Hood: Memorial Services Mark 80th Anniversary Of Ship's Sinking
Only three of the 1,415 crew on board HMS Hood survived when the battlecruiser was sunk by the German ship Bismarck on 24 May 1941.
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Aircraft Chipmunk Aircraft: 75 Years In The Skies
The Chipmunk was the RAF's primary trainer aircraft from the late 1940s and continues to be used by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
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RAF Spitfire Pilot's Battle Of Britain Medals Sell For £110,000
The auctioneers set a guide price of between £30,000 and £40,000 for the medals but a collector paid around three times that amount.
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WWII Bletchley Park To Reopen With New Immersive Codebreakers Exhibition
The once top-secret home of Britain's Second World War codebreakers reopens to the public on 17 May, as lockdown restrictions ease.