カテゴリー: Second world war
Destroyed documents | Football shirt dilemma | Wednesday misery | Awkward advert placementAngela Blazy-O’Reilly reports that the war service of her mother was not recognised for extra pension rights, as “no records were available for [the Women’s Royal…
In joint statement, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin accuse ‘certain countries’ of trying to ‘tamper with the results of the victory of the second world war’ China and Russia pledged to further deepen their already “no limits” partnership in a joint state…
More people were killed in the 1945 attack than the atomic bombing of Nagasaki a few months later, but there is no national memorial, accurate death toll or compensation for survivorsNot even the passage of eight decades has dimmed Shizuko Nishio’s mem…
While war raged against Hitler, people in places such as India were brutalised – despite their own sacrifices to the cause With Remembrance Day coming, arguments about whether poppies should be worn are in full flow. Yet there is one issue that never s…
Conscientious objectors refused to take part in military campaign against Indonesian independence in 1940sFamilies of 20 men who were jailed for refusing to fight to preserve the former Dutch colony in Indonesia have formally asked for their names to b…
Unexpected blast at Miyazaki airport makes crater in taxiway and leads to grounding of 80 flights but no injuriesA US bomb from the second world war that had been buried at a Japanese airport has exploded, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the ca…
Police dug up and removed the rust-caked projectiles, which belonged to US troops during the second world warWorkers at a school in Solomon Islands discovered a buried stockpile of the second world war munitions as they “dug a hole for sewage”, police …
Military service for 18-year-olds is a key Tory election pledge in the UK. But in countries with conscription, opting out comes at a heavy cost – ostracisation, fines and time in prison
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Richard Bong downed 40 aircraft in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning before it crashed while being flown by another pilotA Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of the second world war ace fighter pilo…
Mayor of city where Little Boy atom bomb was dropped says nuclear deterrence is ‘folly’Japan’s prime minister has hit out at Russian threats to use nuclear weapons as the country marked the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.Around 140…
While the premise – an awful man learns from his much better wife – is serviceable, the plot, centring on a tour around second world war sites is woefully misjudgedMuch of this almost wondrously misjudged Bollywood film is perfectly palatable: the tale…
My mother, Doreen Gibbons, who has died aged 96, was a civil internee in Shanghai, China, during the second world war.In 1942, soon after Japanese soldiers took over Shanghai, her father, Frank Cook, who worked for the city’s municipal council, was tak…
At a ceremony opening the G7 summit in Japan, leaders laid wreaths and visited the museum commemorating the 1945 attackG7 leaders prepare new sanctions against RussiaG7 leaders have laid flowers at a memorial to the victims of the US atomic bombing of …
US welcomes doubling of military spending but critics express unease over abandoning seven decades of pacifismJapan has approved its biggest military buildup since the second world war, warning that China poses the “greatest strategic challenge ever” a…
Survivors of 1945 atomic bomb express deep concern amid bellicose rhetoric from Russia and North KoreaToshiyuki Mimaki was playing in front of his family home in Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August 1945 when he saw a flash in the sky – the moment the …