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.
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News 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'...