When Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi decided to investigate his family’s unknown Holocaust history, he turned to the skill he knew best: He began to dig.After learning that two of his uncles were murdered in the infamous Sobibor death camp, he embarked on a landmark excavation project that is shining new light on the workings of one of the most notorious [...]
A suggestion to turn the Austrian house where Adolf Hitler was born into normal residential space has triggered a debate about how best to use an empty property still packed with historic baggage decades after World War Two ended. The man who became Nazi dictator was born in the house in Braunau on the Inn, a town near Salzburg on [...]
The sesquicentennial (150th) of the Battle of Antietam was celebrated on Sept 17. That battle has been called the “bloodiest day” in American history. Which raises the question: Has the Civil War, the most important conflict in American history, been neglected by Hollywood in favor of Westerns, World War II and Vietnam War films? This week the List looks at [...]
An Irish family has been promised that a UK search team will begin scouring the Egyptian desert next month for the remains of a long-lost relative who was a World War Two fighter pilot. The Cork-based Pryor-Bennett family were left devastated last August by the confirmation that human remains found near the wreckage of an RAF fighter plane were not those of [...]
During World War II, the British were sure they were about to be invaded. The English Channel seemed like nothing more than a narrow creek against the might of Nazi Germany. As the British army fought in North Africa and Southeast Asia, the Home Guard and teams of civilians prepared for the worst. One elderly English woman told me that when [...]
When Ilene M. Hall enlisted in the Army WAC in 1943, she was following her husband, Edward K. “Ken” Hall to war. Ken Hall was training to man the Army’s “big guns” — howitzers — in Europe, she explained, and she was “never one to be left behind,” added her daughter, Cheri Hall. When her husband, to whom she was [...]
James Gavin’s 82nd airborne division was disintegrating in front of his eyes. The reports the American general received on the progress of Operation Market Garden were not encouraging. The Allies were in the midst of an audacious attempt at knifing through the German defenses to try to end the fighting in Europe in September 1944 — and his young paratroopers [...]
Forty four years after his tour of duty in Vietnam, Everett Carter still can’t look at the some of the names engraved in stone at the Huntsville Madison County Veterans Memorial. Seeing those names is too painful, Carter said, because they are those of high school classmates that were killed in Vietnam. “I looked at them once but couldn’t do [...]
THE 50-year search for two World War I military cannons missing from a has exploded into a second military mystery. Local history buff Polly Mitchell joined the search three years ago for the two artillery cannons that disappeared from Southport’s Anzac Park cenotaph more than 50 years ago. But his sleuthing has uncovered a second mystery after he mistook two [...]
A memorial stone in honour of a covert World War II Royal Navy unit has been unveiled on the Hampshire beach where the group trained. The Combined Operations Pilotage and Reconnaissance Parties (COPP), set up in 1943 to improve invasion techniques, practiced in Hayling Island. They consisted of 200 volunteers assembled by Lord Mountbatten. His daughter Countess Mountbatten officially dedicated [...]
87 shipwrecks, most from WWII, could leak oil near US, but no ‘ticking time bombs’May 22, 2013
Cold War cartography: Mapping where Soviets could – and could not – go in 1950′s AmericaMay 21, 2013
New monument honors ‘overlooked’ WWII aviators killed in training at Columbia baseMay 21, 2013
P-38 Lightning Crash Site at Siar IslandMay 21, 2013
WWI German submarine has underwater Lake Michigan graveMay 21, 2013
Billionaire Paul Allen gets V-2 rocket for aviation museum near SeattleMay 21, 2013
Pictures emerge of Field Marshal Montgomery visiting pivotal El Alamein battlefield 25 years after he defeated the GermansMay 21, 2013
Blown out of proportion? Student arrested for posing by Russian WWII memorial with an inflatable sex dollMay 21, 2013
Is it illegal to wear medals you weren’t awarded?May 21, 2013
A selection of impressive black and white photographs of that uneasy year 1943May 21, 2013
Fighter pilot reunited with tough little KittyhawkMay 21, 2013
2011: Intact German WW1 uboat found off IrelandMay 21, 2013
Rhidian Brook: my grandfather inspired my bestselling novelMay 21, 2013
Unthinkable? Putting the second world war to restMay 21, 2013
A wonderful tribute to veterans at the PixMay 21, 2013
Monument to the 1,200 Guardsmen, Kaliningrad, RussiaMay 20, 2013
Russia and Japan seek agreement to end WWIIMay 20, 2013
Top Ten United States Fighter Pilot Aces from WWIIMay 20, 2013
Save The Willow Run Bomber PlantMay 20, 2013
New Dam Busters film on hold!May 20, 2013