WW2 Airmen and Women With No Known Grave Remembered
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News Celebrating The Auster - The Observation Plane That Helped Us Win WW2
An event to celebrate the Auster aircraft’s 80th anniversary has taken place at the home of the Army Air Corps and museum of Army Flying in ...
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News RAF Wartime Bomb Causes Mass Evacuation in Germany
The 1.8-ton bomb was one of the largest ever found in Paderborn...
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News Royal Mint Marks Military History With Special Coins
Behind-the-scenes look at the making of the RAF coin...
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Radio Campaign To Reunite WW2 Enemies Turned Best Friends Launches
The British and German WWII veterans who fought in the desert as former enemies are now the best of friends.
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Scotland Live Shell From D-Day Rehearsals Detonated On Beach
Bomb disposal experts from HMNB Clyde were sent north to make the decades-old shell safe.
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News WATCH: WW2 Spitfire Pilot Returns To The Skies On RAF 100
Second World War Spitfire pilot Allan Scott flew above London today as part of celebrations for RAF 100.
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News Bombe Breakthrough: The Machines That Decoded WW2
Poland's role in helping the UK break enigma codes during the Second World War has been celebrated at Bletchley Park.
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WWII Dambusters To Be "Reunited" For 75th Anniversary
All 133 members of Royal Air Force 617 Squadron, the Dambusters, will be "reunited" in a poignant exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of ...
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Radio 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...