A Second World War hero who was part of the famous Damusters squadron has died after contracting coronavirus. Kenneth Law Sumner, 96, passed away at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary on April 2 after suffering a short illness and testing positive for Covid-19. It comes after two bishops from the same church in Wolverhampton were also … Read more
Family of WWII hero and great-great-grandfather, 95, who lost his arm on D-Day can’t give him the funeral he deserves because of coronavirus lockdown Rex Blood was hit in the arm as his unit landed in Normandy in June 1944 He was amputated and survived cancer in the decades that followed Recently he was suffering … Read more
The UN Secretary-General has warned coronavirus is the greatest global crisis since the Second World War and confronting pit will bring a recession ‘that has no parallel in the recent past’. On Tuesday, UN chief Antonio Guterres said at the launch of a report on the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic that there is also … Read more
The shared hell of the war changed Britain for the better, and so will the current coronavirus crisis, writes RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS, pictured When this bleak time is over, when schools and pubs and theatres reopen, when we no longer need fear the warmth of a handshake or the closeness of friends, will life simply … Read more
Last of the Royal Navy WWII destroyer captains dies aged 105: Lieutenant Commander John Manners was commanding officer of HMS Viceroy sinking U-1274 three weeks before end of the war Lieutenant Commander John Manners, was commanding officer of HMS Viceroy Manners oversaw the sinking of German submarine U-1274 in April 1945 Viceroy’s crew found 72 … Read more
The still burning problem of Dresden: Sinclair McKay’s masterful Dresden and David Price’s sobering The Crew show both sides of the story By Simon Griffith Published: 22:01 GMT, 1 February 2020 | Updated: 17:51 GMT, 4 February 2020 Dresden Sinclair McKay … Read more
Photographs of the day-to-day lives of allied airmen during the Second World War have been remastered and brought to life in stunning colour. Striking 80-year-old images show an American mechanic balancing himself on shells while loading a 500lb bomb mid air; tense RAF paratroopers bracing themselves in the body of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft; and … Read more
An extraordinary wartime archive that belonged to an early member of the SAS who topped a Nazi death list has been discovered. The late Fred Casey was among the original dozen members of the 1st Special Air Service that was created in North Africa to wreak havoc behind enemy lines. The commando’s military possessions include … Read more