So, with it only being a few weeks off, who is going, what you planning on seeing, and where you staying. :) Im doing Hotel this year, fed up...
Surprisingly - here we are at approx. 5.p.m. on the 6th of June.....and not a mention of the 68th Anniversary of the main event - as some claim of...
Whilst reading an excellent Wartime Log from David Lane, http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/prisoners-war/44760-prisoners-lament.html It reminded me...
To mark the 70th anniversary of the raid on St Nazaire there is a parade and service in Falmouth on Sunday 25th March. The Parade gathers on The...
A new website follows events ‘on this day’ 70 years ago as Malta became the most bombed place on earth. Taken from personal memoirs as well as...
I have mentioned before my love/hate relationship with the Reader's Letters page in the columns of The Times. It started many years ago when I...
"What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the...
Liberated today in 1945. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] 'Lest we forget.' Stan.
Today, members of the Royal British Legion, Berlin Branch, together with the Naval Attache and member of staff attended Sachsenhausen...
An American friend sent this to me. It captures the celebration in downtown Honolulu. VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 on Vimeo Cheers
infantrymen, predominantly Canadian, were supported by large British naval and Allied air force contingents. The objective was to seize and hold a...
Jonathan Moffatt of the Malayan Volunteers Group (Malayan Volunteers Group |) alerts me to a nice item on ITV local TV news about an event for...
The controversy over this issue never really subsides, but the approaching 65th anniversary does (at least in my opinion) justify a new thread....
At 7.30pm 8 July 2010 to mark the 70th anniversary of the landing of what could be argued was Britain's first WW2 Commando a Commemorative stone...
On Sunday myself and other members of the Royal British Legion, Berlin Branch, visited Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp to commemorate the 65th...
Today is the 65th annivesary of OPERATION VARSITY, and a Service of Remembrance was once again held at Marks HALL for the GPR, unlike last year...
A most pleasant VE Day to all, especially the veterans among us. Here is a link to a recording of Edward R. Murrow's announcement. (If someone...
On Sunday 19th April 2009 there was a commemoration to the liberation of the Concentration camp, Sachsenhausen, 64 years previously in 1945 by the...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II's most famous photographs...
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