Kategori: World War Two
Britain’s oldest Second World War veteran, Donald Rose, dies aged 110
The D-Day veteran was born on Christmas Eve in 1914.
Britain’s oldest Second World War veteran, Donald Rose, dies aged 110
The D-Day veteran was born on Christmas Eve in 1914.
106-year-old man gives secret to long life and he eats a mug of it every day
Leslie Lemon, 106, credits his good health to his favourite dessert.
Film hailed ‘one of the greatest ever made’ now available on Amazon Prime
The film was a record-breaking from the time of its release until just three years ago.
Why radio is still the ultimate survival tool in war and emergencies
‘Listening to radio, these people have a tomorrow.’
Fears fisherman has walked off with five hand grenades
The ‘volatile’ weapons were discovered near a canal in Hopwood, Birmingham.
Fears fisherman has walked off with five hand grenades
The ‘volatile’ weapons were discovered near a canal in Hopwood, Birmingham.
Bomb-filled ‘doomsday wreck’ comes closer to collapse with no-fly zone in place
‘The degree to which the bow and stern may be being undercut as the supporting sediment is eroded away is a potential concern.’
In pictures: How the D-Day landings unfolded on June 6, 1944
It has been 81 years since the D-Day landings in Normandy, France.
Second World War bombs discovery in Cologne forces 20,000 people to evacuate their homes
20,000 people have to leave the city centre.
Man gets his street evacuated after pulling pin on WWII grenade from antique market
‘I noticed something was wrong as soon as I released the safety pin and the spoon sprung off it immediately.’
Mystery of how top sports professor was found dead inside Russia’s most famous statue
Nikolai Chesnokov, 68, fell ill and collapsed after climbing 200 steps to the top of the memorial (Picture: east2west / Shutterstock)
The chancellor of Russia’s top sports university has died inside the head of ‘Motherland Call…
‘Devastating’ disturbing film based on a true story comes to Amazon Prime Video
The historical movie is famously divisive.
‘We just went wild’: how children celebrated cakes and peace on VE Day
Everything was red, white and blue.
‘Getting food parcels during the war was like birthdays and Christmas all at once’
Poverty was rife in the mid 1940s, so receiving Care packages was a lifeline for many families (Picture: Care International)
Tim Thomas was four years old when the much-anticipated box arrived on his family’s rural Wiltshire doorstep. The …
I ate like a WWII Land Girl for a week to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day
‘Mock banana’ anyone?
The beautiful game in wartime: How football unified and thrived during World War II
Stanley Matthews runs with the ball for the RAF team (Picture: Getty)
On 16 October 1943, around 60,000 spectators made their way into Maine Road for a wartime international fixture between England and Scotland.
The hosts were undoubtedly…
How Victory in Europe gave women the first taste of a treat normally reserved for men
‘I felt I had to do something to help the war effort’
VE Day 1945 live: World wakes up to victory after Germany surrenders to the Allies
Metro live blogs the VE Day 1945 minute by minute.
I lived in a post-war ‘flatpack’ home – prefabs were built for heroes
Just 8,000 remain today.
How the royals celebrated VE Day back in 1945
The princesses managed to sneak into the VE Day crowd.
‘How Churchill’s VE Day speech reached our Nazi camp from a hidden attic radio’
‘We began to realize that something was changing.’
Kemi Badenoch: Britain risks losing the spirit of Churchill and VE Day
80 years on from the first VE Day, we live in increasingly uncertain times.
Keir Starmer: My grandad’s post-war silence reminds me of our VE Day sacrifice
We never did find out exactly what he saw. He simply didn’t want to talk about it.
UK party leaders pay tribute to ‘lion-hearted generation’ for VE Day
The leaders of Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, Reform and the Green Party have written for Metro.