A Nazi patrol boat sunk by the RAF in World War II is leaking toxic pollutants into the sea and is set to be even more dangerous as it rusts away, a new study has revealed. The V 1302 John Mahn was a German fishing trawler used as a patrol…
More than 20,000 people were evacuated from a German city after this massive unexploded 500-kilogramme World War II bomb was found 78 years after it was dropped there by US forces. The evacuation occurred in Frankfurt am Main after the huge device was discovered during construction work. The Allied bomb…
A woman has shared a heartbreaking story of how a WWII hero's love letters to his wife were found in the same house he lived and was murdered in. Chelsey Brown, 29, from the city of New York, in the USA, - who returns lost heirlooms to families - was…
This is the moment ‘Heirloom Hunter’ Chelsea Brown reveals the secret behind a war hero’s 1940 yearbook. Chelsea - a 29-year-old interior decorator - researches genealogy as a hobby, finding lost heirlooms at flea markets and antique shops and then returning them to family members. https://youtu.be/XrAh74rpj7M @chelseyibrown/Newsflash The New Yorker…
The wreckage of this British World War II bomber that crashed, killing all eight people on board, has washed up on a Dutch beach in what has been described as a "unique find". The downed bomber has been identified as a Short Stirling MK1, specifically listed as the Short Stirling…
Experts in Germany have scanned the fascinating inner workings of encryption machines that were first developed in 1870 and that also included the famous Enigma machines used by the Nazis in World War II. The project to scan devices from 1870 up to 1990 sheds light in some cases for…
A museum in Amsterdam has returned a Kandinsky painting worth millions to the descendants of its Jewish owners who had to sell it under duress to escape the Nazis during World War II. The handover of the 'Bild mit Haeusern' ('Picture with Houses', 1909) by the famous Russian artist Wassily…
A British fishing crew had a lucky escape when their vessel hit a 250-kilogramme WWII bomb that detonated on the seabed and threw the boat around. The explosion took place 22 nautical miles north of the coastal town of Cromer in the English county of Norfolk. The government agency Marine…
This letter sent by a US Army sergeant in World War II to his mother has finally been delivered to his widow 76 years later after it got lost in the post. John Gonsalves, a then 22-year-old sergeant in the U.S. Army located in Bad Orb, a town in the…
An American B-25 bomber that was shot down during World War II has been found in Sicily along with the remains of five airmen. The search started in 2017, but now, after a six-week dig involving 30 US soldiers under the supervision of archaeologist Clive Vella, the team has unearthed…