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A group of volunteers hope to restore a World War Two rescue boat that has been partly submerged for "close to 20 years".
Did the RAF abandon the troops at Dunkirk? This video dives into the widely held belief that the RAF failed during the ...
The 80th anniversary of the final Coastal Command patrol departing from Castle Archdale in 1945 was marked by a poignant tribute held on Tuesday, ...
Kate donned a white boucle jacket and wearing a five-strand pearl ... admits that her late grandad who served with the RAF in World War II played a major part in the plans. Minister for ...
In a touching moment, seven year old Louis brushed lint off father William's RAF uniform jacket ... Nearby were World War II veterans and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, with crowds lining ...
A brave young man from Crewe had one hell of a secret to keep during World War II and it was no ordinary ... Bernard, then 20, was the youngest RAF sergeant to land on D-Day and was known as ...
One of these stations is the WW2 bomber station RAF Warboys just outside Huntington. Originally built in 1940 as a satellite station for RAF Wyton, it started life as a conventional bomber station.
It might seem hard to imagine now, with duty-free shops and modern passenger jets on the tarmac, but the airport's original use was as an RAF base in WW2. It was built in August 1942 by American ...
In September 1945, Corporal Margaret Higgins was alone on duty as a teleprinter operator with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force when a historic message came through that World War II was over. She was ...
In Japan, U.S. soldiers stationed after World War II personalized their jackets with intricate Japanese ... while Katharine Hamnett and Raf Simons brought it to the runway, sparking a resurgence ...
Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood had to make between 200 and 300 leather bomber jackets for AppleTV+’s World War II series “Masters ... the U.K., such as RAF Abingdon in ...