Mysterious markings on Japanese kamikaze flying bomb
The Ohka 2 plane was put on display about 30 years ago, at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovil after in was captured in…
Belfast Telegraph Calling On Its Readers Who Helped Buy 17 Spitfires During WWII
A small society is now desperately trying to bring back home the spirit of these planes. The Ulster Aviation Society needs financial support to buy…
The only nuclear & chemical weapons factory that wasn’t discovered by the Germans
Workers at the factory used to manufacture mustard gas and while trying to find ways of developing uranium. By November 1942, they were making 40,000…
Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Baptized By Fire
During his first night as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, Neyman had quite a big shock. He was sleeping on the top bunk when he…
Daughter Of Anne Frank’s Classmate Thanks The British Officer Who Saved Her Mother From Concentration Camp
Mrs Koning was a prisoner at Bergen Belsen concentration camp and Leonard Berney was one of the first British officers to go through the gates…
Australians Expected To Follow The Trail From Belgium To Montebrehain In France To Mark The WWI Centenary
Australia did not enter the First World War in Europe until 1916, however, thousands of Australians are expected this year to commemorate the outbreak of…
George Takei: From A WWII Camp To Stardom
As a child, Takei and his family lived in an internment camp in Arkansas, during the Second World War. After the Pearl Harbor attack on…
Orphan 32: Searching For The Orphans Of Saigon
Campbell was only a baby went he was put on a plane to Canada in 1975, during the final days of the Vietnam War. When…
Friends Who Served Together As WAAF Reunited After 70 Years
Not just that Bessie, 89, and Millie, 90, worked together as WAAF radar operators, but they also lived 12 miles away from each other, without…
Historian Says WWI Might Be Happening Again After All
Historian Margaret MacMillan believes that the modern-day world has many similarities with the build-up to the First World War. The ‘war to end all wars’…
Monongahela airman killed in WWII revered in Holland
During a radio speech she gave from England in 1942, Queen Wilhelmina promised that the Netherlands would never forget those who fought and gave their…
Letters Of A World War II Navigator
In his book, ‘The Wild Blue’, Stephen Ambrose explained the selection process used by the AAF. According to him, after men would pass their exams,…