The Hunt Is On For Thousands Of WW2 Heroes
A relic hunter has launched a campaign to reunite 14,000 World War Two veterans with their dog tags...
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News British WW2 Soldier To Be Finally Buried
Lance Corporal Ronald George Blackham was killed during a fierce battle on September 25 1943 as he fought in southern Italy.
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Military Life Locals' Stories Bring WW2 To Life At Devil's Porridge Museum
From daring pilots to a tragic bombing that devastated an entire community - life in south-west Scotland during the Second World War is the ...
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WWII The Modern Career - A Fascinating Look Into The British Army Post WW2
Forces Network has gained access to a rare recruiting booklet for the British Army from September 1946...
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Tri-Service Prince Charles: 'Lessons Of WW2 Being Forgotten'
The Prince of Wales has said the world is in danger of "forgetting the lessons of the past".Prince Charles was speaking at a central London ...
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Tri-Service Scottish WW2 Veterans Honoured For Role In D-Day
A group of Scottish veterans have been presented with France's highest honour at a special ceremony in Edinburgh Castle.The men received the ...
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Tri-Service Veteran, 97, Donates Christmas Money To Family Who Hid Him In WW2
A 97-year-old British Army veteran Eric Batteson who was hidden by an Italian family during World War II is helping their village recover ...
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Tri-Service WW2 Hero Who Died As 'The Last Post' Sounded To Be Laid To Rest
A hero paratrooper of the Second World War who died as 'The Last Post' was playing at 11am on Remembrance Sunday is to be buried today at ...
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Tri-Service Guinea Pigs Of WW2 Remember Team Who Saved Their Faces
The pain of their terrible burns is now a distant memory, but former Battle of Britain pilots saved by pioneering plastic surgery will ...
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Aviation History Candy Bomber: The US Pilot Who Gave Hope To Children
He defied the Soviets, and his superiors, with sweets. In 1948, the USSR had cut off Berlin from Western Europe.
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News Work Begins To Repair WW2 Memorials
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has almost completed a project to re-install eighty-five headstones at Sighthill cemetery in Glasgow ...
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Stories 'Spy's Hysterical Wife Almost Blew D-Day'
A row between Britain’s most important double agent and his wife almost compromised D-Day operations.
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Tri-Service Britain's Forgotten WW2 Veterans
A new photographic exhibition is shining a light on a much forgotten British campaign from the Second World War. "Burma Veterans ...
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![Children on a Sherman Mk III tank in Sicily in WWII](/sites/default/files/styles/list_teaser/public/Crop-1-Local_children_crowd_aboard_a_Sherman_Mk_III_tank_of_the_County_of_London_Yeomanry_in_the_village_of_Milo_near_Catania_in_Sicily%2C_August_1943._TR1244.jpg?itok=QsADHTlt "The "Shirkers" In Italy And Deposing Of Mussolini")
WWII Why The 'D-Day Dodgers' Were Anything But
The men behind the important task of striking at the Third Reich's 'soft underbelly'...
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Feature Scotland's Somme: The Story Of McCrae's Battalion
Forces Network's Ali Gibson has looked at the story of McCrae's Battalion and how some of Scotland's most famous footballers went to war in ...
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Tri-Service Codebreaking Equipment That Helped Win WW2 Goes On Display
For the first time ever, the equipment used to make and break Hitler's most secret code is being displayed at Bletchley Park. The breaking ...