How a Broadway Musical Revealed a Family’s World War II Spy Secrets
Descendants of characters in “Operation Mincemeat,” a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it ...
Brits urged to say the last giant thank you to veterans on VE Day anniversary
The Royal British Legion have revealed their plans to honour veterans on the 80th anniversary of VE Day - and are encouraging people throughout the land to pitch in ...
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The Unique British Hotel With World War II-Era Pillboxes On Its Property
The island was sold in 1927 to filmmaker Archibald Nettlefold, who built a more substantial hotel in the Art Deco style, ...
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UK gallery to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish collector
LONDON] The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting ...
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Last surviving RAF fighter ace from the Battle of Britain dies at 105
March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John ...
How a Secret British Spy Mission Became a Broadway Hit
Well, it really began with a top-secret World War II British spy mission, but as far as musical comedy troupe SpitLip was ...
Review: The Stiff Who Saved Europe, in ‘Operation Mincemeat’
Montagu (played by Colin Firth in the 2021 movie and before him Clifton Webb in “The Man Who Never Was”) really was a son of ...
What WWII data tells us about children, added sugar and chronic disease
Health data from people raised during sugar rationing offers insights on chronic disease. It’s hard to escape the fruit ...
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Last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, John 'Paddy' Hemingway, dies at 105
LONDON – The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died ... be forced to capitulate during the early months of World War II. John "Paddy'' Hemingway, an Irish national who enlisted ...
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At 101, American WWII veteran returns to Polish forest where he was once POW
Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...
When WWII’s ‘Invisible Spy’ visited Chicago’s Art Institute with James Bond creator Ian Fleming
This excerpt from the new book by former Sun-Times reporter and “Masters of Sex” author Thomas Maier details the Bond ...
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‘Plainville Women and World War II’ program set
The Plainville Historical Society will recognize the contributions of local women during World War II at a program Saturday.