He is a first rate combat pilot and the reckless bravery of his attacks … are something you can well be proud of.” When one thinks of America’s World War II air aces—those who have destroyed five or ...
Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch. 1355: The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, leaving ...
1. Michael Nazir-Ali: The uncertain future of ... Their population has already been reduced drastically during the civil war and the extinction of some of Syria’s oldest communities would ...
A team of archaeologists has excavated the site of a World War One training camp in Bexhill. Cooden Camp was used as a base for troops sent to the front line during the Great War. Among those ...
Praise poets honour the servicemen, more than a century after World War One Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial ...
Yet the colour of first World War memory still remains largely white. It was an extraordinarily diverse war because we have: one and a half million Indians, two million Africans, four hundred ...
After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ...
Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...
Your demitasse spoons in the Art Nouveau “Lily” pattern from the Floral Series by R. Wallace & Sons of Wallingford, ...
Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...
The Bristol belonged to Task Group 317.8 during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War. The three other vessels on sale are the frigates HMS Monmouth and HMS Montrose, and the minehunter HMS Walney.
During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ships were being sunk by German U-boats, warships and aircraft. In 1940 alone, ...