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The search for the lost Planes of the Pacific theatre

On March 30, 2015 a team of marine researchers found a missing plane from Second Word War, in the waters of Republic of Palau. The…

Greece demands €279bn from Germany for WWII occupation

Greece has recently taken a strong stance towards its demand for compensation money from Germany. Greek officials maintain that during the Second World War occupation…

70 years since deadly bombing raid on Tokyo

bombing raid

Seventy years ago in early March 1945, US B-29 bombers undertook their deadliest bombing raid on Japan’s capital city, Tokyo. The bombing raid dumped huge…

Alan Turing World War Two notebook to go on sale

Alan Turing

A notebook from the 1940s belonging to Alan Turing, the British scientist and mathematician, is to go on sale by auction. Alan Turing was hired…

Plaque for Nijmegen bridge in honour of World War Two troops

Nijmegen

Nijmegen, a city in the east of the Netherlands bordering Germany, is looking to commemorate 70 years since the end of World War Two with…

Memories from Battle of Okinawa – ‘Operation Iceberg’

Battle of Okinawa

Recording in his journal the days and nights leading up to the Battle of Okinawa, Lt. Col. William A. Kuretich described the weather, the mood…

President Putin equates rewriting WWII history with hiding Nazi crimes

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said that recent attempts by some people at rewriting the history of World War II is no more than…

WWII: Gunner fell 22,000 feet WITHOUT a parachute and survived

S/Sgt. Alan E. Magee poses for the camera, halfway into the tight confines of the ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress. [Via] Ranked among…

A WWII Paratrooper from the ‘Battle of Arnhem’ dies at the age of 90

A World War II paratrooper who took part in the Battle of Arnhem has recently died. He was 90. Philip Letchford was among those paratroopers…

Imber – ‘Ghost village’ of WWII

The former Seagrams Farm A small village in Wiltshire called Imber is famously known as the ‘Ghost village’ of the Second World War. During World…

Japanese historians challenge US publishers on the subject of ‘Comfort Women’

Japanese historians

A group of historians from Japan is challenging the depiction, in US history textbooks, of women trafficked to Japanese military brothels during World War II.…

Churchill had planned to thank US with a copy of Magna Carta

Magna Carta

As a gesture of gratitude for its active support for the British cause in World War II, the Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, had…