Featured Article / War Articles on August 31, 2012 at 20:30 ×
The Historically Important C.B.E., Second War ‘Immediate’ D.S.O. and Two Bars, D.F.C. and Bar Group of Nine to Beaufighter and Mosquito Pilot, Group Captain John ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham, Royal Air Force; The Highest Scoring Night Fighter Ace of the Second World War, With 20 Confirmed Victories; An AI (Airborne Interception) Pioneer, He Commanded Both 604 Squadron and 85 Squadron Before [...]
Featured Article / War Articles on August 31, 2012 at 20:00 ×
Oil, chemicals and unexploded ordinances onboard sunken World War II (WWII) warships and merchant vessels pose a real and significant marine pollution risk to the nations of the Pacific and East Asia. A recent project of the South Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP), through its Pacific Ocean Pollution Prevention Program, has highlighted the extent of the risk posed by vessels [...]
Featured Article / War Articles on August 31, 2012 at 20:00 ×
Another bomb scare hit Germany Thursday with the discovery of two unexploded devices dropped by U.S. forces during World War II. Bomb-disposal experts have begun to disarm a 550-pound bomb in the city of Oranienburg, near Berlin, formerly part of East Germany. Later in the day, a controlled explosion of a second bomb was carried out near the city’s main [...]
Featured Article / War Articles on August 31, 2012 at 19:00 ×
Cecil Beaton is a photographer synonymous with portraits of the rich and the famous, not least of all iconic shots of Queen Elizabeth at the start of her reign. But this month a new exhibition and book (Cecil Beaton: The Theatre Of War) will reveal a different, rarely-seen side to his work: the touching and often harrowing images he took [...]
Featured Article / War Articles on August 31, 2012 at 18:38 ×
In January of 2010, a team of divers lead by local Maui dive shop B&B Scuba dove on the wreck of an aircraft that had previously only been known by some of Maui’s local fisherman. It turned out that the aircraft they dove on was a Curtis SB2C-1C Helldiver. The last of the WWII dive bombers. The plane sat on [...]
Featured Article / War Articles on August 31, 2012 at 18:15 ×
A Dutch naval expedition is hoping to locate the wreck of a Dundee-based World War Two submarine more than 70 years after it disappeared. O-13, or Onderzeeboot 13, escaped from Holland during the German invasion in May 1940 to join the Royal Navy. The boat failed to return from a mission in the North Sea in June that year. O-13 [...]
Featured Article / War Articles on August 31, 2012 at 17:56 ×
Nearly 3,000 residents were evacuated from the heart of Munich after construction workers found an undetonated, 550-pound World War II bomb. The evacuation, which affected several blocks in the busy party district of Schwabing, was ordered by local officials as a routine security measure. Citing the dapd news agency, The Associated Press reported that explosives experts detonated the remains of the bomb on [...]
Featured Article / War Articles on August 31, 2012 at 13:00 ×
Nearly 70 years after four young World War II aviators disappeared during a training flight from Mather Field, a contingent of students and teachers from an El Dorado County high school will join in the search for the remains of two of the airmen. John Daniels, a retired science teacher from Golden Sierra High School in Garden Valley, said he [...]
Featured Article / War Articles on August 31, 2012 at 12:00 ×
The secretive past of Idaho’s largest World War II POW camp, Camp Rupert, was unveiled Thursday and marked with a new historical sign. The work of a small group of volunteers whose efforts uncovered the history of the camp and Idaho Department of Transportation staff who bought into the project and helped erect the sign — came to fruition next [...]
Articles / Featured Article on August 31, 2012 at 11:30 ×
FIRST WORLD WAR relics are considered to be special not only because they bear witness to the event of a first ‘total war’ in which 20th century technology clashed with 19th Century tactics, but because in many cases they represent the first example of military technology still in use today, such as the modern steel helmet. War reveals people [...]
