How You Can Save Last D-Day Landing Craft That Defeated Nazis
A campaign has been launched to restore the last surviving D-Day landing craft used to ferry some of the 160,000 soldiers on to the beaches ...
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News Historic WW2 Shipwreck Discovered Off Australia Coast
The USS Lexington was found 2 miles under the Coral Sea, around 800km off the east coast of Australia.
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WWII D-Day Veteran Reunited With Long-Lost Nazi Dagger He Took After WWII
Clive 'Stinker' Kemp relieved the Nazi of his ceremonial weapon at gunpoint at the end of the war...
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Sport Brothers On Both Fields - Remembering Rugby Through The World Wars
The brand new World Rugby Museum at Twickenham Stadium is now open for visitors...
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News Darkest Hour – How Much Of It Is True?
Gary Oldman just won an Oscar for playing Winston Churchill, and a biographer of the WW2 Prime Minister just gave Forces Network his verdict ...
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News WATCH: Heartwarming Moment Policeman Comforts Burgled WW2 Veteran
A police officer comforted a 93-year-old WW2 veteran who had been the victim of a burglary by taking to the piano in his home to play his ...
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News Travelling With Churchill Through His 'Darkest Hour'
A new film due out this month follows Winston Churchill through one of his most turbulent times in World War II...
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News Family United With Stolen WW2 Medals - 50 Years On
Douglas Higham was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945, but it was stolen by heartless thieves ...
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News Biggest WW2 Bomb Found In UK Was A Dud
A large crowd gathered on a beach to watch the biggest wartime bomb found in British waters blown up - only to witness a damp squib.
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Politics Former Tory Minister 'Had Long Relationship With Glamorous Nazi Spy'
John Profumo, the Tory minister forced to quit after a notorious 1960s sex scandal, also had a long-running relationship with a glamorous ...
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News Family Of WW2 Spitfire Pilot Watches As His Aircraft Is Miraculously Uncovered
The family of a hero Spitfire pilot who died when his plane crashed in World War Two watched as archaeologists recovered the remains of the ...
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News 98-Year-Old WW2 Veteran Receives Medal 73 Years After Service
A 98-year-old WW2 veteran and Spanish Civil War hero is set to receive his sixth wartime medal.
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D-Day D-Day Veteran Remembers Fallen Comrades In Normandy
A decorated D-Day veteran has paid his respects to fallen comrades during a trip to Normandy on Remembrance Day.
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News Pub Undergoes WW2 Makeover For Remembrance Day
Camouflage netting and sandbags were seen piled high up the walls of the popular watering hole following a week-long redecoration...
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News Ex-WW2 Pilot Fulfills Dream Of "Final Flight"
A World War Two pilot who was dreamed of having "one last flight" has fulfilled his dream after he took to the skies at the age of 96.
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History SAS: Ghost Patrol - The extraordinary story of an ultra-secret WW2 fighting unit
"... this is one of the most remarkable stories of wartime lawlessness, eccentricity and raw courage in the face of impossible odds - a ...