D-Day Veterans Association Finds New Member For First Time
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News D-Day Veterans Wanted For 75th Anniversary
Commemorations to mark D-Day 75 are being planned in France and across the UK...
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News Monument To Wartime Nurses Unveiled At National Memorial Arboretum
It carries the names of nearly 1,300 nurses who died during or as a direct result of their war service.
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News Limited Release Motorbike Tribute To Paratroopers' 'Flying Flea'
A motorbike used by British paratroopers and dropped behind enemy lines during World War Two has been commemorated with the launch of a new ...
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News Typhoon Replaces Lancaster In Dambusters Anniversary Flight
The planned Lancaster flypast will now be conducted by a Typhoon aircraft, with other commemorations going ahead as planned.
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News African And Caribbean Soldiers Remembered 73 Years On
It's been 73 years since victory was declared over Germany in Europe and a special ceremony was held in Brixton to honour the African and ...
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News Sorority Grants Veteran's Final Wish - To Dance With A Beautiful Woman
A Mississipi sorority threw a party for the 92-year-old bedridden Navy veteran to make his final wish come true.
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News Grenadier Guards Veteran Whose Family Fled The Nazis Refused British Passport
A grandfather who served in the Grenadier Guards after his family fled the Nazis has been refused a UK passport because he was not born in ...
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News She Said Yes! Spitfire Pilot Finds Massive Marriage Proposal
The romantic gesture was spotted by Dave Ratcliffe as he flew a restored Spitfire above the South Downs National Park.
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News Berlin Police Defuse WW2 Bomb After Mass Evacuation
About 10,000 people were evacuated from central Berlin as German police defused a World War Two bomb.
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News Love Is In The Air! WW2 Veteran Becomes Oldest Person To Go On 'First Dates'
Richard, a World War 2 veteran, becomes the oldest person to appear on Channel 4 dating show 'First Dates', aged 97.
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News WW2 Weapons, Shotguns And Ammo Found In Ceiling
A garage owner stored a cache of weapons, including shotguns, a harpoon gun and a Second World War Russian Submachine in the ceiling of his ...
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News New Exhibition Highlights Stories Of Children In A Concentration Camp
"My mother didn’t know I was still alive" - child survivors of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp tell their harrowing stories.
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News Reunited After 76 Years: 'I Thought The Entire Family Was Murdered'
Two friends who survived the holocaust have met for the first time since separating in Brussels in 1941...
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News Australian WW2 Veterans Take A Seat Inside A Bomber Once Again
A group of 17 nonagenarians travelled across the globe to witness the official opening of the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln ...
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News Fight On To Save Historic British WW2 POW Camp
Camp 116 once housed 1,500 Italian, German and Austrian prisoners across 11 acres in the village of Hatfield Heath in Essex.