A LEGENDARY US Navy submarine of World War II has been found some 80 years after it was sunk by enemy forces – along with 79 crew. The USS Harder was lost in battle on August 24, 1944 as the US sought to retake the Philippines from occupying Japanese forces. 7 A multi-dimensional model of … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Canadian former Guantanamo Bay detainee’s bid to vacate his convictions for the 2002 murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan and other crimes he committed at age 15 to which he later pleaded guilty. The justices declined to hear an appeal by Omar Khadr, 37, of a … Read more
ROYAL Marines commandos re-enact a daring World War Two raid in Cornwall — as beach-lovers lark about with a football. Men from 47 Commando stormed Tregantle Beach, near Torpoint, in inflatable raiding craft to recreate a D-Day mission carried out by the Allies in France. 1 Royal Marines commandos re-enact a daring World War Two … Read more
PLANS to drop British soldiers over France to mark D-Day’s 80th anniversary have been scaled back because of a lack of planes. The Parachute Regiment wanted to send 450 troops in four Airbus A400M Atlas planes to the June 6 commemorations in Normandy. 1 Plans to drop British soldiers over France to mark D-Day’s 80th … Read more
Chungking – as English speakers referred to Chongqing in the early 20th century – was an unlikely capital. Deep inside China, in Szechuan (Sichuan) province, the city became the seat of Chiang Kai-shek’s government on November 20, 1937, when Chiang officially transferred China’s government from its previous long-time capital, Nanking (Nanjing). In a mobilisation unlike … Read more
IT was planned to be the biggest prisoner of war escape ever, with more than 200 men involved in a mass breakout. As it turned out, 76 British and Allied airmen fled from the grim Stalag Luft III PoW camp deep inside Germany — and today sees the 80th anniversary of the feat known as … Read more
A GIRL of 12 put herself blunder arrest — by getting locked in a museum’s pair of WWII handcuffs. Ayla McLaughlin was shackled for nearly an hour as staff had no key. 3 Ayla McLaughlin was shackled by the museum’s cuffs for nearly an hour as staff had no keyCredit: Paul McLaughlin 3 Ayla got … Read more
A UNIQUE UK attraction found underneath the ground has been the unlikely site of some of the country’s most fascinating parts of history and culture for thousands of years. From hosting some of the most famous bands Britain has ever produced, to protecting people during the Second World War, the caverns have played an important … Read more
A RUSSIAN influencer faces up to five years in jail after “tickling” the breast of a famous war statue. Alena Agafonova, 23, landed herself in hot water after posting a video beneath The Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd, southwest Russia, on Instagram last year. 4 Russian influencer Alena Agafonova, 23, filmed herself pretending to ‘tickle” … Read more
“I GOT my first look at the Suffolk scene . . . the dazzling greenness of the fields and the beauty of the hedgerows . . . green beyond anything I had ever seen at home.” So recalled John Appleby, an American from Arkansas who served in the US Air Force in Britain until November 1945. 5 It’s bombs away for Callum Turner, … Read more
