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When the Germans left Jersey following their surrender in 1945, they left behind countless bunkers and other fortifications which for decades lay unused. In the 1960s and 1970s, members of the ...
After years of restoration work, the Battleship Texas Foundation is opening the ship for two-hour tours of areas that played ...
Would the Wehrmacht build enough bunkers to make the French coast impregnable ... The first day of the landings in Normandy and subsequent campaign was only half the story. When compared with ...
The beacons will be positioned in locations that mirror the four WW2 bunker walls that still sit under the site today. Commemorations will start at Wallasey Town Hall, where the Mayor will be joined ...
The Princess of Wales and her youngest son Prince Louis proved they are one of Britain's favourite double acts this afternoon with a sweet display on the Buckingham Palace balcony. Kate, 43, stood ...
A man from Guernsey has shared some of his most frightening memories of experiencing the German Occupation of the island during World War Two. Pierre Tostevin, now 86, was six years old when the ...
Berlin, the epicenter of Adolf Hitler’s power, was the ultimate prize as the Allies closed in from east and west on the disintegrating German defenses in the final stage of World War II ... killed ...
Deserters also survived in a similar shelter in Kaundorf, which was restored as a national monument in 1987. The largest ...
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