The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

Child Evacuees during World War II - Woman's Hour Operation Pied-Piper ... of France in May 1940 when the British realised that the Second World War wouldn't be fought solely in Europe.

EXCLUSIVE: Geoff Roberts, a 99-year-old Second World War veteran, prepares for what might be his final journey to Arnhem ...

The Second World War was the first modern conflict in which millions more civilians died than soldiers. As economic production became essential to military success, civilians were conscripted into ...

Tupperware targeted women who were interested in working, Tupperware, Inc. During the Second World War, women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the ...

Eric Reeves, 104, joined the Territorial Army at 16 and became a Lance Corporal with the Queen's Royal Regiment by the age of 20 but was captured by German forces in 1940 and spent five years in a ...

(Library of Congress) Upon America’s entry into the Second World War ... according to the National World War II Museum. Carnage on Oct. 8 over the German U-boat yards at Bremen and aircraft ...

During and after the Second World War, thousands of Ontario girls became Farmerettes, taking on the work to support Canada’s ...

The death of John Hemingway, the last of The Few who fought in the Battle of Britain, has brought a reminder of the southern Irish who fought in the second World War, but especially those from the ...

A survey of the Second World War which is both thematic and chronological. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is a 2, ...