It has been more than 80 years since the British destroyer HMS Keith sank during an operation described by Winston Churchill as a ‘miracle of deliverance’.
The 330ft-long vessel was among some 1,000 military, merchant, fishing and civilian ‘little ships’ that helped rescue 338,226 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.
It had just returned to the French coast having evacuated 992 soldiers to Dover when it was bombed by a German aircraft and sank to the bottom
The second-largest of the Channel Islands, lying in the English Channel around 30 miles (48km) from the French coast, Guernsey offers plenty that’s comfortably familiar for British travellers, served with more than a soupcon of Gallic flair.
The island’s rugged coastline and crystalline seas inspired French Impressionist artist Pierre-August Renoir to paint several works during his stay here in 1883, and 140 years later, many of those paintings are being shown right now for the first time in an exhibition
As an amateur historian studying Philippine-American history in Washington, D.C., I’ve long been familiar with the story of Arturo Rotor and Emma Unson Rotor.
The couple moved from the Philippines to Baltimore in 1941 for graduate studies, but World War II disrupted their plans. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippines, occupying it for three years. The Philippine Commonwealth Government (the Philippines had not yet gained independence from the United States) escaped to Washington in
Lou Costello did not think twice about leaving his door wide open for servicemen.
“My mother would sometimes walk out to the den area, look out and there’d be people around the pool,” the late comic’s daughter, Chris Costello, told Fox News Digital.
“She didn’t even know who they were,” Chris chuckled. “But they’d say, ‘Lou told us to come over and use the pool.’ He was very good to them. He would have pool parties for them and barbecues.
When it closed in 1933, few would have expected that British Museum Underground station would be repurposed just seven years later.
But that is what happened after the outbreak of the Second World War, when part of the station’s platform – just a short walk from the museum – was turned into an air raid shelter.
Tonight, the latest episode of hit TV series Secrets of the London Underground reveals illustrations that were intended to entertain children as German bombs
Noreen Riols was once a top World War II spy in Winston Churchill’s so-called ‘Baker Street Irregulars’ who used her feminine charms to test secret agents being sent into occupied France.
‘Maria’ is a glamorous 33-year-old coordinator in the Ukrainian non-violent resistance movement Yellow Ribbon, which battles Russia’s brutal occupation on-the-ground in 2023.
The two women are now meeting to discuss just how important women are to effective resistance – something that hasn’t changed in over almost a century.
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A 99-year-old World War II veteran who became a viral TikTok star while opening up about his wartime experiences has made an emotional return to Normandy in order to honor the thousands of his fellow soldiers who died on D-Day.
Jake Larson joined the National Guard when he was only 15 years old – more than 80 years ago – and participated on the June 6, 1944, battle on Normandy beach in France which saw the ‘land, air, and sea
Das Museum zeigt und lehrt viel über Mut, Opferbereitschaft und amerikanischen Einfallsreichtum, aber es behandelt auch Zweideutigkeiten, Gepolter und Naivität.
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er Das National WWII Museum in New Orleans erzählt die Geschichte der amerikanischen Erfahrung im Krieg, der unsere heutige Welt geprägt hat, wird aber seltsamerweise im Geschichtsunterricht nicht viel seziert oder gewichtet, zumindest wenn junge Leute Geschichte lernen. Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist der Stoff für Geniesser, Liebhaber der Militärgeschichte, Holocaust-Studenten und Knacker – oder jetzt die Kinder
