The mystery of how a U.S. World War 2 fighter pilot met his grisly end after crashing in a South Pacific island jungle has been revealed – after 31 years of painstaking work. Lt Moszek Murray Zanger was initially believed to have been shot and killed immediately after being captured by the Japanese following his 4,000ft parachuting out of his [...]
A ROYAL Navy bomb disposal officer who straddled a giant Second World War bomb for two hours and disabled it using a hand drill has received the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery. Lieutenant Commander Richard Talbot, aged 33, from Malvern, was called when the German bomb was uncovered by workmen at a building site in Plymouth. After receiving his honour from [...]
But little did Daniel James know he would end up operating a radar on a destroyer ship and help turn the tide of the Second World War – sharing a ship with a future US President in the process. And now Mr James, nicknamed Taffy by his comrades, will return to the shores of Italy to recall the role he [...]
On the main road to Sainte Marie-du-Mont in Normandy, the steeple of the 11th-century church — once a shield for enemy snipers — rises high above the village. The confessional and the glass case that encases a statue of the Virgin bear bullet holes, remnants of the fierce fighting 68 years ago. The flagpole at Brecourt Manor is off to [...]
They married in secret a few days before he went to war. Frank Fearing had no idea if he would ever see young Helen again, but he made her a solemn promise. Everywhere the American GI went with his unit, he would carve their names into a tree. The first was on Salisbury Plain, where he was stationed before joining [...]
ohn Robert Slaughter, a D-Day veteran and one of the driving forces behind the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, has died. He was 87. Slaughter died Tuesday at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. “That D-Day memorial shows without question what one man with resolve can do,” Dave “Mudcat” Saunders, a political strategist and Roanoke businessman, told The [...]
A TEAM of divers is celebrating following a search lasting 12 years, after finding the wreck of a U-boat scuttled by its crew off the Scottish coast. Just weeks before the Second World War ended in 1945, the submarine with 40 German sailors on board was apparently forced to surface after filling with chlorine gas following a toilet malfunction. U-1206 [...]
The more removed we get from World War II, the more important it becomes to remember the war that shaped the modern world, and yet the harder it becomes to find fresh angles of remembrance. In a recent issue of the Journal of Historical Geography, researchers David Fedman of Stanford and Cary Karacas of CUNY-Staten Island present visual evidence of [...]
DR Tom Renouf, 87, of Musselburgh, served with the famous 51st Highland Division during World War 2 in France, North Africa (including El Alamein) and in the liberation of Holland, seeing action at the Battle of Arnhem. Tom joined 180 other veterans on a trip back to the Netherlands, organised by the London Taxi Benevolent Association. Here he tells of [...]
The horrific battle for the small Pacific island of Tarawa in 1943 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. U.S. Marine Sergeant Norman Hatch was there. But instead of a rifle, Hatch carried a camera and the film he shot helped to change Americans’ view of the war. The combat photographer reminisced about the fierce struggle for the [...]
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
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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
Keep calm and eat like a granny: Nutrition advice given to Britons during WWII could be the key to improving diets todayMay 19, 2013
Czech Republic nuclear bunker turns Cold War museumMay 19, 2013
The unsung British hero with his own Schindler’s ListMay 19, 2013