NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – On the first Sunday in February, western Massachusetts veterans honored the four Military Chaplains who sacrificed their lives during World War Two. Veterans filled the V.A. Hospital Chapel in Northampton Sunday afternoon. Read more on WWLP-22News
The bravery of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders soldiers earned them respect – the uniform earned them the legendary nickname The Ladies from Hell. It was a name given by the Germans to the kilted regiments of the British Army during World War One, including the Argylls whose ranks were swelled with Falkirk men. Among them …
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“Reunion of Giants”, Documentary including first-hand accounts from the men and women who experienced the war and connected with the Lancaster. Includes the flight across the Atlantic and the meet up with the RAF Battle of Britain Flight Lancaster in England. It has been 50 years since two Avro Lancaster bombers flew side by side. …
Soldiers’ Effects Registers show the money paid by the British Government to the next of kin of men killed in action in WWI and the Boer War Mothers were the most commonly listed next of kin Records feature military men including Military Cross recipient Second Lieutenant Walter Tull and Prime Minister’s son Lieutenant Raymond Asquith …
THE ASSASSINATION OF REINHARD HEYDRICH R. C. Jaggers On the twenty-ninth of May, 1942, Radio Prague announced that Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, was dying; assassins had wounded him fatally. On the sixth of June he died. Though not yet forty at his death, the blond Heydrich had had a notable career. As …
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How did you come up with ‘Argunners’? The name of the Magazine “Argunners” originates from the Pionierlied “Argonner Wald” and the area “Argonnen” a French forest in which during World War 1 some of the bloodiest battles were fought and thousands of lives were lost. A place with immense history. To have the name easier …
A permanent memorial to a Spitfire pilot which features the propeller of the plane he was flying now has pride of place in a Braes village. A service was held in Slamannan last Saturday in honour of pilot John Tristram Silvester who was killed when his plane crashed into a field near the village on …
Admiral Sir John Bush, who has died aged 98, was one of only a score of officers to win three Distinguished Service Crosses in the Second World War, and was a highly effective Cold War warrior. The outbreak of hostilities found Bush as first lieutenant of the destroyer Nubian. During the short Norwegian campaign of …
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