WWII RMS Niagara shipwreck oil spill risk ignored despite $200m cleanup threat
It was sunk by Germany in the Hauraki Gulf but decades later its oil has never been retrieved. Maritime NZ had been ...
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P-51 Mustang: An American Icon
The combination of speed, range, and armament made the P-51 Mustang one of the most versatile platforms of the Second World ...
WWII soldier who 'died' in 1940 turns 105: Mother was told her son had perished in Dunkirk but she refused to believe the news - two years later he was found in a Naz…
As Hitler's Panzers rolled across France towards Dunkirk in 1940, Alice Barber opened her local paper to read that her ...
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Why Were Germany’s Blitzkrieg Tactics So Effective in WWII?
French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...
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World War Two steam train ‘Canadian Pacific’ returns to the rails in England
The 'Canadian Pacific', a 1940s steam train that took soldiers and supplies to England's south coast during World War Two, returned to service on Wednesday, taking on board volunteers who spent 14 ...
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Revival of the Canadian Pacific: A Journey Through History
The historic Canadian Pacific steam train, key in WWII efforts, has been meticulously restored over 14 years and made its ...
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Appeal for photographs from day Nazi bombs fell on Knaresborough in Second World War
It’s well-known that The Luftwaffe targeted coastal towns in Yorkshire such as Bridlington in World War Two but few are aware ...
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Buzza Street honours service of WWII private
Buzza Street Walkervale now displays the Rising Sun badge of the Australian Army, honouring the World War II service of ...
Last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, dies at 105
The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who ...
John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...
World War II: Women spies who tricked Nazis
II, and were the only ones allowed to take on a combatant role by the British Army. However, many of them have been forgotten ...