Tag: World War Two

Sqn Ldr Kenneth Drury, Lancaster navigator awarded the ...

He survived a raid on Berlin when Bomber Command lost nearly 12 per cent of the ...

Charles Richards, Chindit who left a vivid account of j...

The Japanese would try to infiltrate at night and cried: ‘Johnny, where are you?...

The bombing of Dresden

13 February 1945

Jim Wren, last survivor of the sinking of the Repulse i...

‘The noise and the rattle of gunfire was terrific. All of a sudden she just roll...

'Trauma still felt': North African Jews and the Holocaust

The Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe during World War II also had its effects ...

Winston Churchill dies

24 January 1965

Rear-Admiral John Roberts, naval aviator who served in ...

He helped to fight off an invasion of British Honduras in an operation he descri...

Russians celebrate 83rd anniversary of end of Leningrad...

19 January 1943. The Nazi blockade of the city lasted 872 days and claimed the l...

Ukrainian nationalists commemorate WWII-era Nazi collab...

A torch-lit parade was held in the city of Lviv marking the 117th birthday of St...

The carol of peace based on a Biblical massacre

A service broadcast to the Empire concluded with the choir singing the Coventry ...

Ruth Bourne, Jewish veteran of Bletchley Park who worke...

She took on anti-social hours, no prospect of promotion, and an oath of secrecy ...

Flight Lieutenant Jack Dark, navigator and bomb aimer i...

The Pathfinder Force was brought in to improve accuracy and part of Dark’s job w...

Nuremberg trials begin

Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis went on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrociti...