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 ...
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Tri-Service Unknown WW2 Graves Identified After New Research
Seven men buried at the Berlin British Military Cemetery in Germany as “unknown soldiers” had their graves rededicated today. Recent ...
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Feature Stunning American WW2 Planes On Show In Duxford
After 12 months and a £3 million redevelopment, the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford has been transformed. Now ...
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Tri-Service 'Battalion 1944' To Bring WW2 Video Games Into The Modern Age
A next-generation World War 2 video game has been crowdfunded in under three days, raising an impressive £200,000. Battalion 1944 developed ...
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Tri-Service Underground WW2 Bunkers In Clapham Open For Tours
A long-abandoned Tube station bomb shelter occupied by Londoners during the Second World War has been brought back to life.TFL is now ...
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WWII Crikey! A GI's Guide To Australia During WWII
Following the Japanese capture of Singapore in 1942, and the subsequent bombing of Darwin, it was clear to Australians that Britain's sphere ...
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Tri-Service Belfast Honours Veterans Who Fought Against Japan In WW2
The role played by Northern Ireland veterans in the War against Japan was marked this week at a ceremony in Belfast. On the 70th anniversary ...
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RAF Take A Tour Of A WWII Spitfire
As Britain remembers the Battle of Britain's "Hardest Day", this was the moment Forces TV was given a full tour of a Spitfire