2+ day, 20+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1608+ words) Janett Bickley almost stayed home from school on the morning of 21 October 1966. The eight-year-old had recently recovered from pneumonia, but she was determined to go in for the last day before half-term. Shortly after taking her seat at Pantglas Junior…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (471+ words) A fundraising target for a memorial to Channel Islands journalists who resisted Nazi occupation during World War Two has been reached, organisers have said. Historian Timothy Crook, who led the appeal, said the target of £1,000 was reached thanks to the…...

5+ day, 18+ 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…...

1+ week, 2+ 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…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (364+ words) A memorial has been unveiled to a much-loved RAF fighter pilot who died when his aircraft crashed during a snowstorm in Scotland. Flying Officer Andrew Crowther, 25, was taking part in an exercise over Lossiemouth on 18 November 1981 when tragedy struck. On…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (734+ words) "On arrival at the crash site, it was breathtaking, because there are bits of aircraft wreckage in 1,000 pieces just lying there," says historian Chris Bullock. He had trekked to a remote part of Norway where Group Captain Wilfred Surplice, 30, station…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (320+ words) An exhibition showing the devastation wreaked by the RAF's Dambusters during Word War Two opens in Lincoln this autumn. It was one of three dams in the Ruhr Valley - Germany's industrial heartland - attacked by 617 Squadron's Lancaster bombers using Barnes Wallis's…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (374+ words) A man who discovered in the walls of his house a letter written by a tradesman 71 years ago says he wants to find out more about the person who left it there. Brendon Swallow has lived in his property in…...

3+ day, 1+ 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,…...