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A Life Well-Lived – Last surviving Second World War Navy Diver Dies Aged 103

If Ken Hartle’s life was written as fiction, no one would believe it. Salvage diver, prune-picker, ranch hand, kicked in the face by a mule,…

Blind Second World War tank veteran honoured by France

A blind Second World War veteran from Stafford in the UK is to receive France’s highest honor with the awarding of the Chevalier de l’Ordre…

WWII Artillery Shell found by Indian Farmer

Bombs from the Second World War continue to be unearthed in various places, the latest being in Puttur, India. A young farmer, Kalyan Kumar, was…

Mysterious Signatures Found On The Inside Of A P-47 Thunderbolt’s Wing

AirCorps Aviation is restoring a P-47 Thunderbolt, a World War II-era plane. Inside one of the wings, they found the grease-pencil signatures of “Eva &…

Dame Vera Lynn – “The Forces’ Sweetheart” releases a new album for her 100th Birthday

In the 1930s, Dame Vera Lynn began performing in men’s’ clubs in the East End of London. In World War II she used her voice…

Decades after the end of the War, one veteran receives the decorations he deserves

There are an estimated 620,000 surviving Second World War veterans, or 3.9 percent of the 16 million who served, according to U.S. Department of Veterans…

The ‘Cisco Kids’: Tuskegee Airmen brothers George and Arnold Cisco

War History Online presents this Guest Article from Eugene Jones Baldwin Arnold and George Cisco grew up in mostly white, rural Jerseyville, Illinois, graduating with…

Amazingly Preserved – WWII P-40 Kittyhawk Discovered in the Egyptian Desert (Watch)

It was the Kittyhawk that captured the world’s interest. In 2012, Polish oil exploration workers came across this eerily well-preserved WWII P-40 Kittyhawk in the…

Real Footage of WWII Air and Sea Battles: The Fleet that Came to Stay (Watch)

In 1945, the United States was waging a bloody war in the Pacific Theater, locked in a deadly battle with the Empire of Japan. Their…

The Unlucky Soviet Nuclear Submarine K-19, Nicknamed “Hiroshima”

The misfortunes of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19 could fit into some mariner’s folk tales of bad luck at sea. Even during its construction, a…

Unexploded WW2 Bomb Causes Evacuation in Hong Kong

Yet another Second World War unexploded bomb caused the evacuation of dozens of people in Hong Kong recently. Construction workers discovered the 227 kg weapon at…

In the Solomon Islands, Unexploded Ordnance, Wartime Relics, and Human Remains are all a part of life

In the Solomon Islands, on the edge of the Munda Airport, there is a pile of rusted metal. Most of it is no longer recognizable,…