Telegraph: Earlier this year, the Government launched the clasp for those who had taken part in the air offensive during the Second World War, but stopped short of awarding a medal, as campaigners had been calling for.But figures suggest that barely half of those eligible for the lesser award have so far applied, with veterans snubbing the “pathetic” award.It comes [...]
Dear all, With regret, and after much soul-searching, /Living-History Museum at the former RAF Bicester Aerodrome following the sale of the site by the MoD to another organisation (confusingly called) “Bicester Heritage Ltd” and their plans for a commercial business park based on vintage motoring. BCH has worked tirelessly over the last 8-years to secure RAF Bicester for Public benefit [...]
The Zoo Flak Tower’, by Horst Kesner, a sixteen-year-old Flakhilfer, describing the night of 22/23 November 1943. There was a so-called Hüfszug Bayern, a column of lorries which brought food to the Bunker when a big raid was expected. It was named after the organization which had supplied the Nuremberg rallies and the May Day rallies of the Hitler Youth [...]
A Lancaster bomber will stage a dramatic flypast over Doncaster next week to mark the 100th birthday of a World War Two veteran. Weather permitting, the iconic aircraft will fly over the Mansion House on Monday, in honour of Flight Lieutenant Eric Clarke who flew aboard Lancasters and was mentioned in despatches during the conflict. The RAF Association, of which [...]
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Another one of History in an Hour’s fantastic posts: On 19 December 2012, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced a special Royal Air Force clasp for the crews of Bomber Command, whose veterans have long complained of unequal treatment when compared to members of Fighter Command who fought the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. Of Bomber Command, the PM said [...]
The former RAF Bicester airfield is to become home to a business park dedicated to motoring and aviation. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) site was home to RAF Bomber Command in World War II and became redundant in 2004. It was put up for sale last year. Bicester Heritage Limited will operate the site after they submitted a bid alongside [...]
Doug Radcliffe, says being awarded the “late honour” of the Bomber Command Clasp nearly 70 years after the Second World War is “something that is very welcome” to veterans and their families. The Prime Minister David Cameron ended nearly 70 years of waiting for two groups of Second World War veterans, as he presented the first Arctic Star medals and Bomber Command [...]
It’s a well worn axiom that any guide book is pretty much out of date as soon as it’s printed and I’m already thinking you can guess I am going to be harsh before we get out of the first paragraph. I am. At first glance this book looks like a supersized museum guide, like the type we used to [...]
A VETERAN of Bomber Command has decried the clasp honour being awarded to the World War Two ‘bomber boys’ as an “insult”. Ivor Foster, from Plymstock, has called on surviving veterans and MPs to support him in a last-ditch fight for a medal. Now his battle is being backed by MP Gary Streeter, who has pledged to go back to [...]
He will unveil the design of a golden clasp bomber air crew can wear on the ribbon of the 1939-45 Star campaign medal. He will also reveal the design of the Arctic Star – a long-awaited medal for sailors who braved terrible conditions supplying the Soviet Union on Arctic convoys. But both awards come 68 years after the war ended [...]
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Memorial to honour Australian WWI tunnellersMay 24, 2013
Japanese WWII veteran says comfort women brothels were wrongMay 24, 2013
Intelligence archive: Hitler helped Allied case late in war due to blunders he was makingMay 24, 2013
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How Hitler’s U-Boats Are Still Attacking UsMay 23, 2013
Colonel Leonard T. Schroeder – 30 Years Service and First Man on Normandy BeachMay 23, 2013
“Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaboratorsMay 23, 2013
1900s-1920s: Lucky SwastikasMay 23, 2013
British WWII Spying and Propaganda in U.S. Shown in Secret FilesMay 23, 2013
Intelligence archive: Cross dressing spy who caused a headache for British mastersMay 23, 2013
Built by forced labour, Nazi bunkers being converted into modern homesMay 23, 2013
Intelligence archives: Britain bribed Spain to stay out of WWIIMay 23, 2013
Last two living survivors of WWII sinking of HMS Gloucester return to Plymouth for dedication of memorial stoneMay 23, 2013
Obituaries: Major David Taylor, who has died aged 92, won an MC in 1944 at the Normandy bridgehead.May 23, 2013
Bournemouth WWII air raid 70th anniversary memorial to be unveiledMay 23, 2013
