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Mother and daughter who took WWII grenade home from beach escape death as it EXPLODES in their kitchen Jodie Crews, 38, and daughter Isabella, eight, found grenade on the beach Pair put a hot pin in the grenade to check if it was whale vomit but it set on fire Fire brigade told Ms Crews … Read more
Chloë Grace Moretz fights gremlins menacing her WWII airplane in new trailer for Shadow In The Cloud By Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Published: 02:38 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 02:38 GMT, 10 December 2020 Chloë Grace Moretz fought off gremlins attacking her aircraft in a new trailer released Wednesday for her upcoming action horror … Read more
Grandfather, 68, discovers WWII bomb shelter under the lawn in his 1920s Wolverhampton semi after living there for FORTY years – and transforms it into a BAR Khandu Patel, 68, was doing some gardening at his home in Wolverhampton When he lifted a mystery manhole cover he started excavating a set of stairs The school … Read more
An Enigma machine — the German encryption device used by Nazi forces to send secret message during World War II — has been recovered from the Baltic Sea. Divers recovered the device at the bottom of Gelting Bay, on Germany’s northern coast, while working to remove abandoned fishing nets that threaten marine life. Designed shortly … Read more
Royal Navy bomb disposal experts detonate 770lb WWII mine after it was caught by startled fishermen off the Clyde A fishing boat hauled the 770lb WWI German mine in their nets in Scotland Royal Navy divers described the 80-year-old mine as being in ‘pristine condition’ A demolition squad carefully placed the mine back on the … Read more
British art experts who saved priceless Italian manuscripts during World War Two held a snooty view of their ‘uncultured’ US colleagues, newly unearthed letters show. The achievements of the 345 men and women of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) in rescuing cultural treasures damaged or looted by the Nazis was brought to life … Read more
Ex-RAF pilot, 82, flying replica WWII Focke Wulf 190 suffered serious injuries in crash landing after mistaking crop field for an airstrip because of ‘similarity in colour’, report finds Barry Conway, 82, crash-landed his replica WW2 Focke Wulf in July this year Ex-RAF pilot had to be rescued from aircraft and suffered serious injuries Official probe … Read more
This is the moment John Watts first saw the bomber plane flown by his father’s squadron during the Second World War and grew closer to knowing the man he never met. John Watts grew up without ever having the chance to meet his father – a hero pilot of the Second World War who died … Read more
A campaign led by actress Joanna Lumley is calling for unexploded WWII bombs in the seas around British to be quietly ‘burnt out’, rather than violently detonated. It is estimated that some 100,000 tonnes of unexploded wartime munitions lurk in Britain’s waters — much of which needs clearing to make way for new wind farms. However, the traditional … Read more
Britain’s oldest surviving female WWII veteran, 103, told top brass ‘I haven’t come from Jamaica to be a typist’ before becoming first black woman radar operator defending UK’s coast Ena Collymore-Woodstock objected to being given a clerical job at War Office Volunteered for Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and was trained in military drill Many of the … Read more