On May 23rd 1982 Warrant Officer John Phillips and his colleague Staff Sergeant James Prescott were called to HMS Antelope to defuse two 1,100 pound (500 kg) bombs...when one exploded....
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William Walker was born in 1913 and later went on to serve in the RAF during World War Two.
Here he recalls his earliest memory of seeing a German Zeppelin during the First World War.
Wing Commander Bob Foster was born in 1920. He decided to join the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve in January 1939.
He flew a Hurricane fighter in the Battle of Britain but had an unlikely landi
With Germany out of their way, Tito's communist party came back to power. Rrahim Rexhepi, a World War Two survivor, explains how the Yugoslavian communists executed people that simply refused to obey
In 1983, James was a Major in Berlin and among his responsibilities was taking care of Hitler's former deputy, Rudolf Hess. He met Hess frequently, and tells of the extraordinary relationship between
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he talks about being in Nagasaki in 19
On May 23rd 1982 Warrant Officer John Phillips and his colleague Staff Sergeant James Prescott were called to HMS Antelope to defuse two 1,100 pound (500 kg) bombs...when one exploded....
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On 25th May 1982, one of Argentina's National days, HMS Coventry, accompanied by HMS Broadsword was ordered to take up position in Falkland Sound to act as a decoy to draw away Argentinian aircraft fr
William Walker was born in 1913 and later went on to serve in the RAF during World War Two. He flew Spitfire's during the Warm notably in the Battle of Britain.