Malta: The Country That Was Awarded The George Cross
The Mediterranean island endured more than 150 days of relentless Second World War bombing that brought the country close to starvation and ...
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Radio New Book To Shed Light On Royal Navy WWII Codebreaking Hero
A new book has been launched celebrating the life and achievements of the first head of GCHQ, Royal Navy Commander Alastair Denniston...
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WWII Making The Best Of It: The 9 Weirdest WWII Re-Uses
With a campaign having been launched to save fences made from WWII stretchers that now adorn council estates in London, we take a look at a ...
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News Wreck Of WW2 Ship Discovered In Philippine Sea
Researchers have located the wreck of the USS Indianapolis, the Second World War heavy cruiser that played a crucial role in the Hiroshima ...
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News Campaign Launched To Save WW2 Stretcher Fences
Did you know that metal stretchers which carried the injured during the Blitz, were re-used to make fences in London?
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News Service for 96 Year Old WW2 Veteran And Tireless Military Campaigner
A World War Two gun carriage has carried a Normandy veteran's body to his funeral in Canterbury. 97-year-old Albert Figg – a campaigner and ...
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News Celebrating The Vehicles That Helped Win WW2
A festival of war and peace is taking place in Kent which celebrates the people, the equipment and the vehicles that helped win the Second ...
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WWII Dunkirk: How a soldier who survived a torpedo attack was 'taken back to hell'
HMS Wakeful broke in half, went down in a V and is believed to have sunk within 15 seconds
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RAF On This Day: Churchill Delivers 'This Was Their Finest Hour' Speech
On this day in 1940 Winston Churchill delivered his famous 'This Was Their Finest Hour' speech to the House of Commons.
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Military Life Taxi! WW2 Heroes Returned To Normandy By London Cabbies
The Taxi Charity has taken around a hundred world war two veterans back to Normandy to visit key sites of the Second World War.
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WWII The Day British Soldiers Blew Up 10,000 German Troops
Britain’s Great War is remembered as a bloody slog, but not all the battles were huge defeats or bittersweet Pyrrhic victories.
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WWII Remembering D-Day: The 10 Images That Defined The Battle Of Normandy
On the anniversary of D-Day, the author of 'The Liberation of Europe' explains the story behind some incredible images from the time...
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News Surgeon Who Saved WW2 'Guinea Pig' Pilots Honoured With Movie
A new film that tells the story of the surgeon who saved the lives of the 649 Second World War "guinea pigs" will soon start filming.
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News WW2 Bletchley Park Codebreaker Celebrated In Centenary Exhibition
Bill Tutte allowed Bletchley Park to decode some of the most top-secret messages sent during the Second World War.
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News 101-Year-Old Veteran To Publish WW2 Memoirs
As he turns 102-years-old this week, William Earl is launching his long-awaited memoirs.
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News Former Soldier Brings WW2 Bomb Home
A former soldier found the 25lb relic during a kayaking trip, thinking it was an old shell casing.