Charity Helps 100-Year-Old D-Day Veteran Pay Tribute To Fallen Comrades
Each year, Ted Hunt normally visits Normandy to pay his respects to those killed on D-Day in 1944.
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WWII Dunkirk's Little Ships: Up Close With A Vessel Still Sailing Today
Hundreds of the small vessels were sent to help rescue trapped Allied troops from the shores of Dunkirk 80 years ago.
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Feature George Arthur Roberts: Black Soldier And Pioneering Civil Rights Activist
The inspirational soldier who fought tirelessly for race equality and wounded veterans
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WWII Father And Son Re-Create Dunkirk Evacuation Walk
The duo walked to raise money for SSAFA
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D-Day Appeal For Tributes To War Dead Ahead Of D-Day Anniversary
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is offering to lay tributes for those who cannot travel to its cemeteries in Normandy.
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Veterans Dunkirk: The Memories Of Veterans Who Were There
We remember the stories of veterans with different experiences of the evacuation, 80 years on.
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News WWII Veteran Sandy Cortmann Dies Aged 97
The former paratrooper recreated his jump over Arnhem for the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden last year.
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WWII Collection Of 'Secret' World War Two Spy Gadgets Sold At Auction For Thousands
The collection is made up of “escape and evade” items sent to British soldiers trapped in France.
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WWII Remnants Of Nazi Power: 75 Years Since 'The Flensburg Government'
Despite the Allied victory in Europe declared on 8 May 1945, it was not quite the end of the Nazi Third Reich.
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WWII The Spitfire Shot Down Over Dunkirk... And Still Flying Today
The aircraft was shot down in 1940, and it was decades before it was rediscovered on a Dunkirk beach.
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WWII Operation Chastise: 77 Years Since The Dambusters Raid
Of the 133 Allied aircrew that took part, 53 British airmen lost their lives in the eight planes that were shot down or crashed.
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Feature Code Name Lise: The extraordinary life of Odette Hallowes, WW2's most decorated female spy
Odette Hallowes was tortured by the Gestapo, yet survived the war to become one of Britain's most decorated spies
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Veterans WWII Veteran: 'The Comradery In The SAS Was Like Nothing Else'
WWII veterans like Alec Borrie received a charity gift to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day
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Russia Putin Marks Russia's Victory Day Anniversary With Virus-Reduced Ceremony
A military parade and a mass procession had to be postponed as part of measures to control the spread of coronavirus.
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Veterans Battle Of Britain Veteran Dies Leaving Last Surviving Member Of 'The Few'
Terry Clark was one of "The Few", the air crew who took to the skies to defend the UK against the German Luftwaffe.
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VE Day UK Falls Silent In Remembrance
The country observed a two-minute silence 75 years after the end of the Second World War in Europe.