We have a great opportunity to obtain an exciting new home for the Yankee Air Museum and, at the same time, to preserve a significant portion of the historic World War II Willow Run Bomber Plant, located just east of Ypsilanti. Michigan. This is the plant where more than 40,000 workers from across America came together to build more than [...]
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3news.co.nz: Movie buffs will have to hold out for Sir Peter Jackson’s remake of The Dam Busters, with the film “still waiting in the wings”. Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the World War II Dambusters Raid, with a flypast over the dam on Derwent Reservoir in Derbyshire celebrating the occasion. But the highly anticipated remake of the 1955 film [...]
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Daily Mail: A ban on ‘Nazis’ attending a Second World War-themed event celebrating the Dambusters anniversary failed to stop people strutting around in SS uniform over the weekend. Organisers of the 1940s Weekend at Haworth, West Yorkshire, faced complaints last year from a party of German tourists about the flaunting of regalia linked to the Holocaust. This year figures wearing [...]
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South China Morning Post reports: A local amateur military historian has unearthed the site of a second world war plane crash that could solve the 68-year-old riddle of two missing US war planes and their crew. The hunt is now on for evidence such as the crewmen’s identifying dog tags that could see the site declared a war grave and [...]
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By: Frank Coffman / 1917 SCATTERED throughout the land today are a few men on whose tablets of memory the night of November 2, 1917, is indelibly inscribed. Those men are the First Division survivors of Company F, Second Battalion, Sixteenth Infantry, for it was on the night of November 2d, a little over four years ago, that Company F wrote [...]
Standing out as one to watch for the bookies in the WHO What’s Not to Like championship stakes is this little gem from Michael Forrest. This is a history book which doubles as a battlefield guide and somewhere in the gaps it is also an artilleryman’s journal of sorts. I suppose you might call it a bit of a hoot. [...]
World War II Weekend – ‘Dig for Victory’- 1st/2nd June 2013 Tyntesfield House, Wraxall, Bristol, BS48 1NX The spectacular Tyntesfield estate, situated just outside Bristol, was the location for an American hospital during World War II. The Victorian Gothic Revival buildings played host to US personnel working in Britain and to servicemen returning from Normandy after D-day in June [...]
We have a great opportunity to obtain an exciting new home for the Yankee Air Museum and, at the same time, to preserve a significant portion of the historic World War II Willow Run Bomber Plant, located just east of Ypsilanti. Michigan. This is the plant where more than 40,000 workers from across America came together to build more than [...]
World War II Weekend – ‘Dig for Victory’- 1st/2nd June 2013 Tyntesfield House, Wraxall, Bristol, BS48 1NX The spectacular Tyntesfield estate, situated just outside Bristol, was the location for an American hospital during World War II. The Victorian Gothic Revival buildings played host to US personnel working in Britain and to servicemen returning from Normandy after D-day in June [...]
The Telegraph reports: Visitors to a Second World War-themed event celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Dambuster have turned out in Nazi uniforms despite a ban on the costumes. The event – which attracts 25,000 visitors a year and raises thousands of pounds for charity – saw visitors dressing up in Nazi uniform. Photo: Jonathan Pow Organisers of the 1940s weekend [...]
The periscopes of the historic HMS Alliance were returned by a giant crane today as part of a £7m conservation project to restore the only surviving WW2 era A-class submarine sited at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, Hampshire. The periscopes have been conserved by the Babcock International Group at the submarine base Faslane in Scotland. HMS Alliance was [...]
Telegraph: The outbreak of hostilities found Bush as first lieutenant of the destroyer Nubian. During the short Norwegian campaign of April and May 1940, the ship ferried troops ashore day and night, also providing anti-aircraft cover and escorting merchant ships in and out of the fjords.By the end of May Nubian had been incorporated into the 14th Destroyer Flotilla, part [...]
Robert Oppenheimer oversaw the design and construction of the first atomic bombs. The American theoretical physicist wasn’t the only one involved—more than 130,000 people contributed their skills to the World War II Manhattan Project, from construction workers to explosives experts to Soviet spies—but his name survives uniquely in popular memory as the names of the other participants fade. British philosopher Ray [...]
It is no secret that one of the major attractions at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is a World War II German submarine. What you may not know is that Chicago also has a World War I German submarine but it happens to be resting in a place where very few people can see it. We are turning the [...]
The Battle of Iwo Jima had just been won as this April, 9, 1945 LIFE entered American homes. The Marine assault troops landed on Feb. 19th, and newspapers published Joe Rosenthal’s famous picture of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi on Feb. 23rd. But victory did not occur until March 26, when 200 Japanese made their final [...]
They fought to stop Hitler overpowering Europe – but when they returned to Ireland, they were shunned by their own State. Last week, the Government passed legislation to grant an amnesty to those Irishmen who served with the Allied Forces during World War Two and who were blacklisted and branded as deserters when it ended. “The bill (recognises) the courage [...]
Information on the Battle of Hamburger Hill during The Vietnam War, also known as Hill 937. The battle, which was fought on May 10-20, 1969 was a direct assault against a heavily defended and strategically insignificant hill, resulted in over 400 U.S. casualties and caused an outrage back home. ‘Don’t mean nothin’. That was the refrain of the powerful 1987 [...]
Steve Carr: As the Lancasters of 617 Squadron were over the German Dams on the 16/17th May, ground crews of the US 8th Air Force were working hard preparing the US Heavy Bombers for a raid that day. Among the aircraft was B-17F Fortress serial #41-24485, unknown at the time. It was named “Memphis Belle”. 70 Years ago today, May [...]
Save The Willow Run Bomber PlantMay 20, 2013
New Dam Busters film on hold!May 20, 2013
Dambusters celebration ‘hijacked by Nazis’: Outrage as visitors to WWII remembrance event defy ban on SS uniformsMay 20, 2013
Hong Kong amateur historian unearths site of #WWII crash that could solve 68-year-old riddle of missing US war planesMay 20, 2013
WWII Weekend – ‘Dig for Victory’- 1st/2nd June 2013May 20, 2013
Visitors flout ban on wearing Nazi uniforms to WWII eventMay 20, 2013
Periscopes Are Returned To WWII Submarine In GosportMay 20, 2013
Admiral Sir John Bush, who has died aged 98, was one of only a score of officers to win three Distinguished Service CrossesMay 20, 2013
The Man with the BOMB – Why Robert Oppenheimer haunts us stillMay 20, 2013
WWI U-Boat in Lake MichiganMay 20, 2013
Iwo Jima: “…A Beachhead On Hell”May 19, 2013
The English soldier who deserted, became an ‘Irishman’ – and received the Victoria Cross in WWIIMay 19, 2013
Battle Of Hamburger Hill During The Vietnam WarMay 19, 2013
70th Anniversary of B-17F “Memphis Belle”May 19, 2013
Another TANK from a FOUND! A T34/85 is pulled out of a former training ground!May 19, 2013
Willow Run Bomber Plant could be a new home for the Yankee Air MuseumMay 19, 2013
REVIEW: THE DEFENCE OF THE DARDANELLES by Mark BarnesMay 19, 2013
Poland begins search for WWII mass gravesMay 19, 2013
Nazi uniforms ‘not welcome’ at Haworth’s 1940s WeekendMay 19, 2013
Calls for WWII prisoner camp to house Ryder Cup 2014 volunteersMay 19, 2013
