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Spitfire's maiden flight honoured at Duxford airshow

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (477+ words) The great-nephew of the man behind the Spitfire has said he was a "genius who designed the most beautiful aircraft ever built". Julian Mitchell said, during a visit to the Battle of Britain Air Show at IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire, that…...

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Southwick House chosen as D-Day nerve centre ''quite plush"

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (604+ words) "It's really humbling just to be there and think of all those huge decisions being made, but then you've got the reality of the people participating on the front lines losing their lives." The fate of the world hinged on…...

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Captain James Martin Stagg, the man who delayed D-Day

4+ day ago   (183+ words) Captain James Martin Stagg, the chief meteorological adviser who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of D-Day, spoke to Richard Dimbleby in 1964. The Allied invasion was moved from the 5th to the 6th of June, due to Stagg's advice. The…...

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BBC Audio | Witness History | The weather report that changed the date of D-Day

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (399+ words) In 1944, a young Irishwoman called Maureen Flavin drew up a weather report that helped change the course of World War Two. Maureen was working at a post office on the far west coast of Ireland. Her duties included recording rainfall,…...

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Thousands turn out in Serbia for funeral of 'Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladić

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (857+ words) Thousands of people have turned out in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, to attend the funeral of the convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić. Widely known as the Butcher of Bosnia, Mladić died at the age of 84 while serving a life sentence in…...

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Andrew Hunter Murray tells the story of the forgery that fooled the world in new BBC Radio 4 History Podcast series The Hitler Diaries Scandal

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (441+ words) Podcaster, author and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray revisits one of the most extraordinary media deceptions of the 20th century in a new ten-part series from The History Podcast, The Hitler Diaries Scandal, available on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 4 from Monday…...

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Norman Irwin: Tributes paid to 107-year-old WW2 veteran

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (469+ words) Tributes have been paid to World War Two veteran Norman Irwin, from Coleraine, who has died at the age of 107. The death of Norman Irwin was announced by his family on Thursday. Norman Irwin, who was born in 1918 and was…...

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WW2 Bromsgrove veteran 'feels still 50' on 100th birthday

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (382+ words) A World War Two veteran who is celebrating his 100th birthday on Thursday says he is feeling well and "I'm putting my name down for another 20 years". Albert Malin served on the gruelling Arctic convoys during the conflict as an able…...

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Archive preserves East Anglian Black US airmen stories for years

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (407+ words) A research project exploring untold stories of black US Air Force personnel based in East Anglia during the Cold War has the potential to become one of the first and biggest archives of its kind, its project manager hopes. Black…...

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'Cinderella Service' World War Two dead to be honoured

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (609+ words) Thousands of airmen and women who lost their lives during World War Two are to be honoured. A total of 12,500 names of Coastal Command personnel will be added to the Losses Database at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln…...