Last Glorious Fight of the Glowworm
Glowworm‘s only surviving officer was the 27-years old Lieutenant Robert Ramsay, R.N. It was known that the Glowworm sank under the attack of the enemy…
Movie Shows Hitler as Evil Kung Fu Master
Hitler…a Kung Fu master? Well, everything is possible and this upcoming movie attests to that. The feared German dictator during the Second World War will…
Former Head of M15 – “My Mother’s Pigeons Saved Lives in WWII”
Dame Eliza Manningham Buller, who became head of M15 from 2002 to 2007, is set to tell the story of how her mother trained pigeons…
Epic commemoration of World War I
2014 will be the first of four years of ceremonies and events to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I. The war broke out…
Northern Ireland Imagines a Nuclear Attack
The Belfast Telegraph reports that Northern Ireland Civil Servants drew up a dossier that details what would be expected if a nuclear bomb was dropped…
WWII B-17 Pilot Signs Historic Wing
In 1943, Harvey went into a boots shop to find out what deposit he had to pay for a new pair. After the bootmaker’s shop…
Holocaust Survivors Reunite With Their ‘Manna’: The Woman Who Cared For Them After The War
Soon after the end of the Second World War, Martha found herself at a manse in Lingfield, England, surrounded by children who were under her…
WWII hero Jack Tirrell repeatedly put himself in front of enemy tanks
Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) WWII hero Jack Tirrell who received four bravery medals including three MCs on three occasions during the war…
WWI Hero, 16, Awarded The Victoria Cross
In 1915, Jack was only 15 years old when he decided he should join the Navy. He was a gun sight setter on HMS Chester…
Bitter Story of Bitter Times: Holocaust Survivor Recalls Winter Months in Nazi Camps
February, 1945 – It would have been the perfect time for 13-year-old Ivor Perl’s bar mitzvah but instead the barely in his teens lad stood under…
Civil War Ship USS Westfield Recovered from Houston Ship Channel
A 150-year-old Civil War ship was recovered from the Houston Ship Channel’s bottom and restored in a five-year project that yielded countless artifacts dating way…
Veterans Get Support to Attend Operation Market Garden’s 70th Anniversary
Lloyds staff, Church green East branch, are working at raising £10,000 to send at least 70 WWII veterans of the Parachute Regimental Association’s Redditch branch together with…