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This will be the largest ship built for the German Navy since World War II. The official start of construction is mainly symbolic, as work on the new ship’s components began six months ago.
An unexploded bomb has been found on an Essex beach. Southend Coastguard managed to detonate the unexploded shell, which was ...
It was handed to Major John Clement, officer in charge of a party from Force 135, sent on 17th May 1945 to remove the German garrison of 270 men on Sark. The Occupation had begun on 3rd July 1940.
This programme illustrates the development of the German navy from 1914 to the end of 1945 in a documentary way never attempted before and includes rare film footage in both colour and black and ...
Reports include Churchill's speech, celebrations, conditions for the German navy's surrender and of course the weather. The front page of the paper from Tuesday, May 8, 1945, carried the simple ...
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.
A 103-year-old Royal Navy lieutenant commander has been sharing ... Almost 80 years since the end of WW2, Mr Barnes, who moved to Guernsey in the 1960s, reflected on his role.
It was handed to Major John Clement, officer in charge of a party from Force 135, sent on 17th May 1945 to remove the German garrison of 270 men on Sark. The Occupation had begun on 3rd July 1940.