Launched in July 1944, Operation Goodwood was designed to break German defenses east of Caen using overwhelming armored force. Thousands of tanks and bombers were committed in what became the largest ...
Lisburn, as a garrison city, is the main barracks to the British Army in Northern Ireland at Thiepval with a history dating ...
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The British factories that built a WW2 powerhouse

How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon.
Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...
A new report warns that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing in Russia's war in Ukraine could reach 2 million by ...
They were the forgotten heroes of World War II, dropped deep behind enemy lines to cause maximum disruption. Last year at the ...
A top-secret WW2 blueprint for the famous D-Day landings is expected to fetch £100,000 at auction in Derbyshire after coming to light after 83 years.
A new report warns that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing in Russia's war in Ukraine could reach 2 million by spring ...
On November 6, 1943, the American First Infantry Division came to the county as part of the preparations for the D-Day landings. Upon their arrival, the American servicemen were given seven pages of ...
With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a ...
With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 ...