Town plans street parties for WW2 anniversaries
Street parties are to be held in Boston to commemorate the 80th anniversaries of Victory in Europe (VE) Day and Victory over ...
Daily Express26d
The decoy British towns and airfields that fooled WWII German bombers and saved lives
They were built as fake WWII factories ... a plane dubbed 'Starfish', took 968 tonnes of German bombs destined for 81 real towns, industrial plants and munitions factories. Now their new analysis ...
Greek Reporter12d
The German Soldier Who Saved a Greek Town from Destruction
Josef H. Blechinger was a German soldier who became one of the greatest heroes of the resistance and saved a Greek town from ...
Daily Express16d
Nazi Germany’s ‘forbidden island' abandoned to the elements after WW2
One “cursed” area used by Nazi Germany has failed any attempts at a ... hidden treasures and secret military experiments. After WW2, the red army occupied the peninsula and used it as a ...
Opinion
The Oak Ridger on MSN19dOpinion
Rediscovering the 'Forgotten Creators' of the German atomic bomb
Perhaps most importantly, Germany developed gas centrifuges, which are more efficient than calutrons and gaseous diffusion for uranium enrichment, and which therefore have now become the preferred ...
Stars and Stripes22h
At 102, American WWII veteran returns to the Polish forest where he was once a POW
Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...
Chip Chick on MSN8d
During World War II, The British Built Decoy Sites To Mislead German Bombers
Three Allied aerial bombing decoy sites from World War II were recently investigated, uncovering significant variations in ...
The Oldham Times on MSN13d
German man finds debris of Oldham airman's WWII plane
A man in Germany has found the crash site where an RAF airman from Oldham was killed during WWII– and now he's trying to find his relatives. Sgt Joe Hilton Halliwell, from Shaw, was just 22 years old ...
La Crosse Tribune6d
La Crosse woman awarded Gold Star Pin for father's WWII service
Mildred 'Billie' March receives a Gold Star Pin for her father's WWII service. Her father, Joseph Schuster, was a U.S. Army ...
FLYING on MSN11d
Dutch Fokker D.VII Fighter Looted During WWII to Be Returned
The aircraft was taken during World War II to become part of a Nazi-Luftwaffe museum planned by Hermann Göring, who ...
The New York Times28d
How a Demographic ‘Doom Loop’ Helped Germany’s Far Right
in the strongest showing for a German far-right party since World War II. Some segments of the party, known as the AfD, have been classified as extremist by German intelligence. How could that ...