World War II | War History

Two Nazi-plundered Artworks Found in Germany’s Bundestag

Berlin, Germany – Only months after the world was gripped with the news of the discovery of the billions-worth artworks said to be Nazi plunders during…

D-Day Vets’ Last Battle: Raising Money for National Memorial

Even after WWII and the Normandy Landings, these D-Day vets still have a last campaign to fight for – raising the needed  £65,000 to have their…

FROZEN – Expedition Combs through Greenland’s Ice for Missing WWII Servicemen

Cumming, Georgia – Edwin Richardson sees a glimmer of hope in finding his long-lost father, a WWII serviceman who kind of “faded from his life”…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TED! D-Day Veteran Celebrates 90th Birthday

Happy Birthday, Ted! 21-year-old Ted Young was one of the throngs of soldiers who became part of the D-Day Landings on Normandy Beach, France. He…

Remembering Two WWII Plane Crashes; One Almost Wiped Out Whole Village

A service marking the 70th year anniversary of a Lancaster bomber’s crash, a remarkable WWII plane, during the height of the war was done last…

Artist Blames Spell-Checker for Misspellings in Norway WWII Monument

Oslo, Norway – The designer of a Norway WWII monument in honor of the country’s resistance fighters blamed the misspellings contained in the said memorial to…

WWII Polish Leader Wladyslaw Sikorski’s Death Void of Foul Play – Inquest

Warsaw, Poland – A five-year Polish investigation into the unexpected death of WWII Polish leader Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski in 1943 through a plane crash yielded no evidences…

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…

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…

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…

Remembering WWII by Remembering Our Veterans

Ian Harvey

On Veterans Day in 2013, President Barack Obama honored Richard Overton, 107 years-old, at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. Mr. Owens…