The Tank Museum – Vehicle Conservation Centre Opening
Years of planning and hard work was celebrated yesterday as The Tank Museum’s new, Heritage Lottery funded, conservation centre was officially opened. Historian and Museum…
Remembering the Forgotten Battalion
When marines belonging to the H&S, G, H and I batteries, 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment left San Diego for combat war in the South Pacific…
New Shaftesbury World War II Monument Deemed ‘Illegal’
Shaftesbury Town Council is put under fire by the English Heritage for erecting a 6-foot war memorial just fifteen feet away from the ruins of…
Warsaw Supports Statue in Honor of Resistance Hero Witold Pilecki
Councillors of Poland’s capital city showed support in favor of a statue to honor resistance hero Witold Pilecki who is best known for imprisoning himself…
WWII Vet Set to Return Japanese Shin Gunto He Took as ‘Souvenir’
Traditional Japanese beliefs state that one’s own personal sword holds the owner’s soul. Swords and sword making still holds a prominent place in Japanese culture…
In Honour of WWII Polish Airmen
A huge crowd of civic dignitaries, scouts, air cadets, RAF Northolt personnel and veterans came together last September 7 for a ceremony in honor of…
The Tank Musem presents: The Indian Mediums
The Bovington Tank museum reports: There are some tanks that fail to conform to what we expect, some tanks that are very different or don’t…
Cambridge Military Hospital: Nostalgic Look at Its Historic Past,the hospital remained in use right up until the first Gulf War
In the small city of Aldershot, Hampshire sits a sprawling abandoned structure with a lone clock tower looking forlornly above the city’s horizon. The building…
‘Schindler’s List’ Author Penned New WWI Novel
The Daughters of Mars is the new novel penned down by Schindler’s List and Confederates author, Thomas Keneally. And just like his previous works, his new book is a powerfully…
Remembering Charles Lindbergh and His Infamous Rhetoric
Charles Lindbergh — his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 earned him the name Lone Eagle and made him a celebrity all over the…
Borneo: WWII Shipwrecks Ravaged by Divers
Kuching: Divers freely loot two shipwrecks of Japanese WWII war ships off the coast of Santubong stripping them bare of historical artifacts — relics that…
Soviet Spy G.A. Vartanyan – The man who saved the Big Three – Overlooked WWII Hero?
WWII’s Big Three – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Theodore Roosevelt and Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin – were almost ‘assassinated’ in the Tehran Conference…