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 [...]
When you think about what it took for the United States and our Allies to win World War II, it wasn’t just up to the troops fighting in Europe and the Pacific, the war was waged on the home front as well. And a big chunk of real estate in Ypsilanti was one of the most important spots in the [...]
Euronews.com reports: Shortly to be added to the list of Europe’s most unusual tourist destinations, you too will soon be able to experience some of that Cold War chill in this nuclear bunker in the Czech Republic. Misov, some 60 kilometres from the German border, got its underground complex in the Khrushchev years, and now it is a museum to [...]
GREENVILLE —A celebration of the 70th anniversary of when the original Fighting Falcon glider was dedicated will be held on Sunday. The event will include a reception honoring the anniversary of Glider Day from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Fighting Falcon Military Museum at 516 W. Cass St. in Greenville. On May 19, 1943, Glider Day [...]
What’s a military museum without firearms of yesteryear?Chicago Alderman Edward Burke introduced an ordinance last week that would allow museums in the Windy City to possess and display unloaded guns classified as “curios or relics” after learning that the Pritzker Military Library and other city museums are currently banned from including them in exhibits. If passed, the museum’s president and [...]
WAR memorabilia has been re-homed after a Royal British Legion club was forced to close suddenly. Replicas of Lance Sergeant John ‘Jack’ Baskeyfield’s Victoria Cross were among the items presented to a branch of the Staffordshire Regimental Association, in Burslem, last night. Sgt Baskeyfield, of the South Staffordshire Regiment, who hailed from the Mother Town, performed a legendary act of [...]
The State reports: Is Columbia the right spot for a World War II museum? Marvin Chernoff — a former public relations executive who was a force behind the Doolittle Raiders 50th reunion here and the steel Palmettos art project, among other initiatives — thinks so. He said the museum could be built around the Movietone News Library collection given to [...]
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 Daily Mail reports: This is the moment an historic RAF fighter jet was transported to its new home by a Chinook helicopter. The Gloster Meteor T.7 was both the UK’s first jet aircraft and the Allies’ first operational jet fighter when it entered service in 1944. This 1949 aircraft has been located at Imjin Barracks in Gloucestershire – home [...]
By David Flintham / military-history.org David Flintham visits a large military museum in Normandy and is impressed by the quality of its displays. The Operation Overlord beaches stretch for some 60-miles along the Normandy coastline. Today this part of France is dotted with museums of varying sizes and quality, ranging from the large and purpose-built (such as the American Airborne Museum at [...]
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