Veterans Earn Money to Visit National Arboretum in Staffordshire
The Specsavers Hearing Center on Claremont Street in Shrewsbury, served coffee and sweets to help reach its Help for Heroes goal over the course of…
100 Years Later, WWI Sparks A New Battle In Britain
The initial plans included schoolchildren visiting battlefields, communities working on restoring monuments and the nation remembering a war that lasted four years and killed more…
2,4-D Herbicide, a chemical used in Agent Orange, could fuel the upsurge of Enlist Crops in the American Market
The Agent Orange made a mark in history owing to the employment of the chemical during the Vietnam War. It is one of the nine…
Howard Mercer Witnessed Kamikaze Attacks During World War II
He was only 17 years old when he was serving on the LCI 353 mortar ship in the South Pacific, during the invasion of Okinawa,…
Red Cross Workers Were Suspected Of Being German Spies In Second World War
In his new book, James Crossland writes about the relations between Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Second World War,…
Wisconsin Man Recalls Fighting In A Segregated Unit During WWII
However, for certain black man, the recognition and respect came much later or in some cases, never. William Cole, 90, doesn’t have the most pleasant…
WWI Aviator From Hall Had Some Close Calls
He was one of the first military airmen from Hall County who served in the First World War and although he had several close calls…
Japan Close To Making Nuclear Bombs In WWII
The fact that Japan insists in developing nuclear weapons seems to bring back memories of quite similar plans during the Second World War. All the…
THE GREAT WAR ILLUSTRATED 1914 – Review by Mark Barnes
I’ve spent practically all my working life in the field of photographic archives. The way I work has changed immensely over the past decades, not…
WAVE 3 Story Helped Get Priceless WWII Medals Back Home
Louisville, Kentucky; February 8, 2014 – The story about the collection of priceless WWII medals found in a storage unit let out by WAVE 3…
Australia: Woman Hopes to Return Japanese WWII POW’s Paintings to Family
Australian comes out with the paintings made by a Japanese WWII POW hoping that publicizing the story will help locate his family and return the…
Former Chillicothe Mayor’s Father Defended Art, Liberty
Shortly before the end of the Second World War, the Monuments Men went hunting the hundreds of thousands of looted art works, to save them…