World War 2

By Hina AlamThe Canadian Press Sat., April 22, 2023timer4 min. read FREDERICTON - Angus Hamilton, who served as a radar technician in Southeast Asia during the Second World War and returned home to a successful career in the civil service and academia, has died in Fredericton at the age of…

Deep-sea explorers have found the wreck of a Japanese transport ship which sank off the Philippines, killing nearly 1,000 Australian troops and civilians in World War Two. It was Australia’s worst maritime disaster: a US submarine torpedoed the ship unaware that it was packed with prisoners captured in Papua New…

Author of the article: Published Apr 21, 2023  •  1 minute read SYDNEY — Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Saturday that the wreck of a Japanese merchant ship, sunk in World War Two with 864 Australian soldiers on board, had been found in the South China Sea, ending…

Time Team (the hit British archaeology show) is delighted to be working with Operation Nightingale on a UK site linked to the United States Army’s most famous regiment of the Second World War – the legendary Band of Brothers. The excavation commemorates 80 years since the legendary Easy Company were…

War veterans. Photo from Presidential Communications Office PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday said the government is studying how it could provide additional support for Filipino World War 2 veterans. "What we are looking at is how we could strengthen the system of providing the pension for our veterans. Because…

New Zealand-born Nancy Wake was a prominent figure in the French Resistance and became the most decorated servicewoman of World War II. During the Second World War, Wake worked as a journalist who eventually joined the French Resistance after witnessing the brutality of the Nazi regime. She became well known…

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British Columbia·Video A group on Vancouver Island that is painstakingly rebuilding a rare Typhoon fighter-bomber recently acquired a key component that they hope will help the Second World War-era aircraft take flight.  A Hawker Typhoon hasn't taken flight since the '40 or '50s: Ian Slater, project lead of the Typhoon Legacy C Jon Azpiri…

Author of the article: The Canadian Press Mickey Djuric Published Mar 23, 2023  •  4 minute read U.S. President Barack Obama addresses Parliament in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Photo by Justin Tang /THE CANADIAN PRESS United States President Joe Biden…

(UPDATE) MALACAÑANG has refuted the claim of a United Nations (UN) panel that the Philippines has failed to provide reparations for Filipino women who suffered sexual abuse by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War 2. In a statement, Presidential Communications Secretary Cheloy Garafil said the Philippine government recognized the…