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One woman wondered back in September if it was her grandfather, Richard Yarling. We try to find out if he was the oldest ...
The once impenetrable German Atlantic Wall lay shattered by the Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy.
Members of the public will have one more opportunity to take free tours of a World War II-era tall sailing ship when the U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle ...
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How 2 Battleships Sank An Aircraft Carrier
In a rare World War II naval upset, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, ambushed and sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940. -The disaster was the result of a series ...
A conversation with historian James Holland on his latest book with Al Murray, "Victory '45: The End of the War in Eight ...
Construction of the Washington commenced at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, where her keel was laid down on June 14, 1938.
The Second World War was known for its iconic, advanced (for its era) weapons. Hitler’s Germany was particularly notorious ...
Two postmen were among the servicemen from South Oxford who were killed in the Second World War. Maurice Goddard, 31, of Edith Road, Grandpont, who served as a driver with the Royal Army Service Corps ...
He turned his family’s lumber business into a manufacturer of model kits that won global popularity for their quality and ...
Laman Ismayilova Read more Filming has begun on a feature film dedicated to the life and career of Shovkat Salimova, ...
Explorers have discovered wartime torpedoes among the wreckage of a sunken U.S. destroyer that went down near the Solomon ...
Many were able to spot the massive vessel as it made its way to Rosyth. Traffic Scotland shared images of the ship as it ...