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A Lowestoft man who flew more than 30 missions during the Second World War and was honoured for "contributing to the Liberation of the Netherlands" has marked his 100th birthday in style. Jack Munday ...

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In the summer of 1944, Wren Kathleen Oates was stationed on the Isle of Man, writing dozens of letters home about life and ...

It is to remember the lives lost when a RAF Wellington bomber crashed at that location on May 29, 1944. The bomber was returning from a mission in northern France just prior to D-Day and was ...

Dean was born in Wauseon, Ohio to Edward A. and Georgia C. (Stuckey) Wyse on March 28, 1944. He was a 1962 graduate of West Unity High School. After working at ARO Corporation in Bryan, Dean enlisted ...

The trips ended at the Indigo Lake Station in Peninsula. During the train ride, CVSR volunteers gave oral histories of the CVNP, the CVSR, and the 1944 Nickel Plate Road Steam Locomotive No. 765. The ...

After being demobbed, Bill and May had twin boys – Eric and Ken - and the veteran was able to return to a job in local government in Yorkshire. The pair later moved to Ilminster, which they regarded ...

Born December 16, 1944 in Waynesboro. He was the son of the late John Walter and Charlotte E. (Fitz) Wynkoop. He graduated from Waynesboro Area Senior High School Class of 1962. Tom served in the ...

She was born June 8, 1944, in San Joaquin, California, the daughter of the late Frederick Robert and the late Geraldine Mayhew Castle. Jo Ann was a member of Believers Church and the Busy Bees Club.

War Report’s first edition was introduced on air by the BBC’s announcer, John Snagge: War Report, BBC Home and Forces Programme, Tuesday 6 June 1944, from 21:00. Image: John Snagge on air.

VE Day meant the end of hostilities in Europe, but it would be a year or more before soldiers who were demobbed would begin arriving home. My friend’s father was a prisoner of war, I don’t ...