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Military Aviation Museum honors WWII British servicemen in U.S. graves with new initiative
A new initiative honoring World War II British servicemen buried in the U.S. is kicking off in Virginia Beach. The Military Aviation Museum and its volunteers have joined the nationwide initiative, ...
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Saint-Nazaire: The U-Boat Base That Defied 2,000 Allied Sorties
The walls and roof of the German U-boat pens at Saint-Nazaire France proved too strong for allied bombers during World War II.
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Saint-Nazaire: The U-Boat Base That Defied 2,000 Allied Missions
The walls and roof of the German U-boat pens at Saint-Nazaire France proved too strong for allied bombers during World War II.
The horror of Bergen-Belsen 80 years on: How British troops found 60,000 barely alive inmates when they liberated Nazi camp where Anne Frank died
They were scenes that brought home to the British people the full horror of Nazi depravity. Eighty years ago today the ...
The forgotten secret Nazi bases in the Arctic. Codename: Nussbaum
The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...
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Britain Hid an Entire Secret WW2 Army Underground
It was the summer of 1940, and the vicious Nazis were seemingly closing in on the United Kingdom. The British Army was highly ...
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50 years after Lebanon's civil war began, a bullet-riddled bus stands as a reminder
What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...
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From 27 March BBC account holders across the UK will start to receive an online questionnaire to help identify what they want from the BBC now, and what they want from it in the future ...
Heroic Portsmouth First World War soldier's Victoria Cross Medal seen on BBC Antique's Roadshow up for sale
The honours of James Ockendon will be sold by Nesbits Antiques Auctions in Clarendon Road, Southsea, on May 21. His Victoria ...
80 years after Edward R. Murrow revealed the horrors of Buchenwald, the camp still has a vital story to tell
CBS News' Edward R. Murrow was shocked by what he saw at the just-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Work continues to ensure the world never forgets.
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Police hunt man accused of sexually assaulting woman in Dover Castle’s wartime tunnels
Police are investigating after a woman was sexually assaulted at Dover Castle. Officers are calling for witnesses of the ...
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How Bergen-Belsen, Where Anne Frank Died, Was Different From Every Other Nazi Concentration Camp
A new exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London chronicles the German camp complex's history, from its origins housing prisoners of war to its afterlife holding displaced persons ...