RAF Kinloss is the focus of a new probe into radioactive contamination, linked to the use of “glow in the dark” paint on WWII aircraft.

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Contamination at Kinloss probed

From the end of WWII until the end of the Cold War, a British military train ran daily from West Germany through East Germany to West Berlin.

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VIDEO: The train that connected the West to Berlin

An operation has started to remove a WWII German V2 rocket which has been found on mudflats near Harwich.

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VIDEO: V2 rocket found embedded in mud

There are calls for recognition for the sailors on the WWII Arctic Convoys who risked their lives to transport crucial supplies and munitions from Scotland to Russia.

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VIDEO: Call to recognise Arctic veterans

SAS veterans from the WWII campaign in the Mediterranean have been recounting their memories of the war.

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VIDEO: SAS WWII veterans on Mediterranean campaign

Computer conservationists have finished restoring a machine known as Tunny which was key to Allied code-cracking efforts in WWII.

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WWII code-breaker will run again

The Japanese yen hits a post-WWII record against the US dollar as stocks slide amid radiation and earnings concerns.

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Yen hits record as Nikkei slides

The WWII veteran helping ex-service people cope on civvy street

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Tail-end Charlie’s tale

The Asian heroine who risked all for Britain in WWII

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Forgotten spy

WWII veteran Major Richard Winters, made famous by the book and TV mini-series Band of Brothers, dies at the age of 92.

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Band of Brothers’ CO Winters dies

France’s state rail company SNCF expresses “profound sorrow” in the US for its role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps in WWII.

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SNCF ‘sorrow’ over Holocaust role

Archives shed new light on exploits of WWII agent Eileen Nearne.

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Reluctant heroine

The brains of babies still in the womb at the time of severe WWII food shortages may have aged faster than other people’s, researchers say.

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Famine baby brains ‘age faster’

Scottish WWII piper Bill Millin who died in Devon last month is honoured in a service at Sword Beach where he played troops ashore during the D-Day landings.

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Memorial service for D-Day piper

Meeting WWII’s ‘forgotten armies’

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History revisited