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‘GREAT ESCAPE’ SPITFIRE

When Chris Goss came across a photograph of a shot-down Spitfire...

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BULLETIN BOARD

A photograph of a First World War soldier has been successfully...

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Soldier’s Tale Commemoration Project Shortlisted for Award

A HIGHLY-PRAISED project aiming to encourage interest in the...

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FIRST WORLD WAR DIARYJANUARY 1917 WORLD MAP

JANUARY 1917: The first month of the fourth year of a great war...

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A Duel of Aces

When Canadian fighter pilot ‘ace’ Sqn Ldr ‘Johnny’ Kent...

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An Elefant is Coming!

The US Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center Elefant, now...

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No Hope for HMS President?

HMS President with St Paul’s Cathedral in background. LAST...

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FIELD POST

LETTER OF THE MONTH The Mosquito Exiles Mosquito VI HP904/3-E...

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‘A Disgraceful Episode’

On 4 July 1940, the Luftwaffe struck a major blow in its first...

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Rare Great War Tractor Under The Hammer

HISTORIC MILITARY vehicles remain ever popular on a world-wide...

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Canadian War Museum Acquires Medals Of Last Commonwealth Soldier Killed In

WW1 Private George Price’s medal group which has been...

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PLACES TO VISIT

Lancashire & Cheshire Branch The truth behind the Christmas...

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IMAGE OF WAR

USS OKLAHOMA SALVAGE 15 July 1942 Sunk with the loss...

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REPUTATIONS: IVOR MAXSE

Innovative and tactically brilliant, Major-General Ivor Maxse...

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Scottish Poppy Conserved

Silk poppies being manufactured at Richmond during the 1930s....

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RAF Pilot No Longer ‘Missing’

IN 2011, Britain at War magazine ran an account of an action...

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GREAT WAR GALLANTRY January 1917

Throughout the First World War, the many announcements of British...

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No Greater Love

Resistance leader Hugh Seagrim waged war 75 years ago with a...

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From the Editor…

THE PUBLICATION of material relating to Nazi concentration camps...

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Wittering EOD Destroy Massive ‘Bomb’

The suspect device (MOD CROWN COPYRIGHT 2016) TECHNICIANS...

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Fate of Lost Submarine Unravelled

THE WELCOME spate of recent submarine finds has continued with...

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UNIQUE VIEWS OF LIFE UNDERGROUND

Phil Jarman looks at the role of key artists during the Second...

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MARRIED IN BELSEN

An ordinary soldier’s far from ordinary wartime experiences...

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Missing Spitfire Roundel – Where is it Now

DURING THE production of the 2005 Channel 4 TV special documentary...

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BULLETIN BOARD

The name of a serviceman who lost his life in Afghanistan has...

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IMAGE OF WAR

‘BUTCHER-BIRD’ ACE Summer 1942 Hptm Johannes...

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The First W rld War in Objects

POSTCARDS IN AID OF THE BLIND Sir Arthur Pearson photographed...

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STEEL AND SAND

The fighting in the Western Desert between Allied and Axis forces...

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BULLETIN BOARD

A new gallery has opened in Auckland War Memorial Museum, New...

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BULLETIN BOARD

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh has unveiled a memorial dedicated to...