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Dambusters deserve proper medals not a brass clasp, says wartime bomber hero
There is even a specially commissioned Bomber Command Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, opened by the Queen, to commemorate the 55,573 Allied air men who died during WW2. Arctic convoy veterans have...
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The last British Dambuster: ‘Don’t call me a hero’
Mr Johnson was the bomb-aimer on one of the Lancasters which damaged the Sorpe Dam. Other crews in the 617 Squadron destroyed the Möhne and Edersee Dams, leading to catastrophic flooding in the...
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Hero who led D-Day landing craft dies aged 95
Mr Purser, who was 95 when he died, defined his life by his time in the Royal Navy, according to his family. He joined HMS Raleigh in late 1940 for training and later HMS Vanquisher, a 1918 Destroyer,...
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The World War Two Spitfire hero finally remembered
And so, Ernest Russell Lyon lay. His body was never officially identified, instead he became one of 20,456 men and women from the air forces of the British Empire who died during World War Two and are...
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A man unbroken: the hero of Angelina Jolie’s new film
Unbroken’s saviour has been Laura Hillenbrand, who wrote the 2010 biography on which the film is based. Hillenbrand had written Seabiscuit, which became a screen success. Her book persuaded the studio...
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