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Metal detectorists find buried WWII aircraft in Ukraine while disarming wartime bomb

The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union in 1941 to help the Allied war effort, but they were dumped to avoid payment.

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Watch How Panasonic and Tempest Transport Guests to World War II America

Projection mapping creates an immersive nighttime sound and light experience at the National WWII Museum.

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WWII Dispatch Motorbike Rider And D-Day Veteran, 103, Returns To Saddle

Don Sheppard, one of only a handful of Normandy veterans alive, was invited to commemorate a new D-Day memorial in Rettendon, UK.

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Sculpture of artist imprisoned by the Nazis during WWII is repaired by TV expert

The son of Věra Škodová chokes back tears as he sees the sculpture of his mother as a young woman finally pieced back together as it once was

Daily Mirror

Normandy marks D-Day's 79th anniversary, honors WWII veterans

World War II veterans, officials and visitors are commemorating D-Day on Normandy beaches to honor those who fought for freedom in the largest naval, air and land operation in history

The Independent UK

'A war crime has been censored': Truth revealed about a WWII massacre on Bangka Island

Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of a wartime massacre, but the full extent of the horrors she experienced is only now being told.

ABC News

Two-thirds of millennials don't know which countries were victorious in WWII, study finds

Six in ten Brits believe they have a good knowledge of the global conflict - but just 36 per cent of 18-34-year-olds feel it is important to know about the war

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A thought experiment, 1939: will a Nazi Europe buy our lamb?

How might things have gone had we looked to the ideology of tax cuts to defeat fascism in WWII, asks Nicholas Agar?

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Book Review: 'V Is For Victory' explores FDR's bid to win public and industry support during WWII

Craig Nelson chronicles the key battle President Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced as he worked to win over the public and industry's support during World War II in “V Is For Victory.”

The Independent UK

Surviving as a POW in WWII set Alan Rabinov up for fashion business success

Alan Rabinov's skills as "one of the more successful traders and scroungers" in Changi helped set him up for success as a fashion entrepreneur after World War II.

ABC News

An American and a WWII veteran meet for a drink in Newcastle

"In a tiny way, I've brought the two countries together."

Newcastle Herald

Watch as Russia stages annual WWII Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square

Watch as Russia stages its annual Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square, marking victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

The Independent UK

New Oppenheimer trailer gives first extended look at Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic

The Oppenheimer movie has got a new trailer, showing off Christopher Nolan’s upcoming WWII epic and nuclear bomb biopic with aplomb.

TechRadar

Former WWII nurse from Lanarkshire celebrates her 101 birthday as she reveals secret to long life

Edna Twivey from Strathaven cared for injured soldiers during the Second World War.

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WWII ship that sank with 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered in South China Sea

The wreck of a Japanese transport ship that sank in 1942 with more than 1,000 Allied prisoners-of-war on board has been discovered near the Philippines.

ABC News

Army DUKWs still used daily in Kuranda more than 80 years after they were made

These amphibious war machines were built by women during WWII and used to transport troops and supplies. But these days they are more like to be found ferrying tourists around holiday hotspots.

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Hobart streets dug up for air raid shelters as WWII threat crept further south

Tasmania might have seemed a long way from the threat of invasion in WWII, but all that changed in 1942. A Japanese plane flew over Hobart and air raid shelters and trenches were hastily constructed.

Daily Mirror

Inside abandoned home of WWII veteran hoarder with 'graveyard' of old cars and dirty magazines

Stashes of porn magazines and other relics dating back decades provide an eerie glimpse into the former habitants of this abandoned home in West Sussex

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French culture minister returns 15th century art stolen by Nazis during WWII to rightful owners

Two paintings and a sculpture from the 15th century, looted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 from German Jews, were returned to the heirs of the original owners on Tuesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

80-year trip back home nearing a close for WWII pilot

Sneed exclusive: Remains of Lt. Roy Coulson Harms, who was killed over a bombing raid in Romania in 1943, are returning to family in Grafton, Wis.

Daily Mirror

The Repair Shop fans emotional as show transforms WWII prisoner of war's boots

In a recent episode of BBC series The Repair Shop, a guest brought in a pair of boots worn by his late father to be repaired.

Louder

That time a long-haired Peter Frampton appeared in a WWII period drama drinking tea in the jungle and singing

Black Sheep Squadron's final-ever episode starred Peter Frampton as a military intelligence operative stationed on a remote Pacific island

The Conversation

Ukraine: reporter's notes from WWII shows how Russia used claims of fascism to stem independence

Alongside the horrors of the war in Ukraine, many in the west have been confused by the insistence from Russian president Vladimir Putin that he is trying to free the country from “Nazi control”, accusing his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, and his supporters of crimes against the people of Ukraine.

Newcastle Herald

'I burnt Hitler': a dramatic headline with an extraordinary story

Who made this curious claim? As MIKE SCANLON writes, if you were in the Hunter in the 1970s you might recall the extraordinary story.

Manchester Evening News

Woman, 104, selling childhood home she's lived in for 102 years - which her parents bought for £200

Nancy ‘Joan’ Gifford lived in her beloved house throughout WWII and the invention of the TV

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