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PRAGUE IS WARNED BY REICH GENERAL Military Writer Sees Refusal of Britain and France to Give Direct Aid in War SOVIET HELD UNPREPARED Germany’s Annexation of Austria Described as Key to Weakness of the Czech Defenses By GUIDO ENDERIS Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. BERLIN, July 24.-Balancing the chances of an armed clash over the Czech problem, Lieut. Gen. Horst von Metzch, well-known writer on military topics, declared in a recent article that both Britain and France are decidedly opposed to courting warlike entanglements on a large scale in view of the still obscure military situation in Spain and...

Paris in the month of May was in full aphrodisiac bloom. The girls were swinging along the boulevards in their short, flowery skirts, their hair flowing loose behind them. On the radio, the singer Tino Rossi - France's answer to Rudolph Valentino - belted out his latest romantic favourite. But a few short weeks later, on June, 14, 1940, the German army marched into the capital and occupied it for four years. France has never forgotten its humiliation - or its bewilderment - in having to adjust to a life of close proximity to the old enemy, with all the...

ARABS CLASH WITH BRITISH ON TRANS-JORDAN BORDER; PALESTINE VIOLENCE GROWS BRITAIN RUSHES AID Two Cruisers Sent to Haifa - Land Forces Are Augmented TWO-DAY TOLL PUT AT 33 111 Wounded in Widespread Rioting-Clashes Occur In Jerusalem and Nablus By The Associated Press. JERUSALEM, July 7.-Arab tribes from Trans-Jordan were reported massed on the Palestine frontier tonight as Great Britain sped warships and troops to smash the worst Jewish-Arab outbreak in the Holy Land’s recent history. In a fight lasting four hours British troops fought a band of 600 Arabs said to have just crossed the border from Trans-Jordan, east of...

WAR A YEAR OLD, GEN. CHIANG URGES JAPANESE TO RISE China’s Leader Asks People of Opposing Nation to ‘Stop Militarists’ Madness’ BOMBS GO OFF IN SHANGHAI Several Slain in Outbreaks – Tokyo Planes Report Sinking Troop Vessels in Yangtze A year ago today Japanese troops, engaged in night manoeuvres near Marco Polo Bridge, west of Peiping, alleged they had been fired on and launched an attack that has sent contending armies tramping over more than a third of China ever since. Premier Konoye of Japan charges the war was forced on his country by the anti-Japanism of younger Chinese officers....

23 DIE AS VIOLENCE GRIPS PALESTINE Bomb Starts a Riot in Haifa – Another Cast From Train – 100 Persons Wounded Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. JERUSALEM, July 6.-Bombs, riots and police action in various parts of Palestine today resulted in at least twenty-three deaths and nearly a hundred less serious casualties. Among the dead at Haifa is Tuvia Dounia, a brother-in-law of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization. He slumped at the wheel of his automobile, a bullet in his heart, while police were clearing the streets during one of the worst riots in the...

PALESTINE EVENTS INCREASE DESPAIR Hope of Ever Bringing About a Settlement Between Arabs and Jews at Low Ebb By JOSEPH M. LEVY Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. JERUSALEM, July 2.-When, if ever, PalestineÂ’s fate will be settled is again the question of the day here. New sporadic outbreaks and violence during the last week took toll of more than a dozen lives and, coupled with the hanging of a Jewish youth by sentence of a military court, disheartened all the more the already discourage peace-loving elements of the populace. The situation is almost hopeless, they seem to feel. In...

BRITAIN ASKS ITALY TO HALT BOMBINGS Reply Urges Neutral Ports in Spain, Where Ships Will Be Safe From Raids By ARNOLDO CORTESI Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. ROME, June 28. – Acting on instructions from London, the Earl of Perth, the British Ambassador, called on Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, late this evening, and drew the Italian Government’s attention to the very difficult situation created in Anglo-Italian relations by the continued bombing of British ships in Spanish waters. If such bombings continue, he is believed to have said, the coming into force of the Anglo-Italian agreement of...

FRANCE MAY CHECK SEIZURE BY JAPAN London Hears She Will Land Troops on Hainan Island if It Is Invaded By Frederick T. Birchall Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. LONDON, June 24. – According to a report from a usually authentic source, but thus far not confirmed officially, the French Government today informed the British Government that it had been warned by its naval forces in the Far East to expect a landing by Japanese troops on the large island of Hainan, at the extreme southern end of China. The French were said to have further told the British...

A reunited trio of World War II veterans recall the night they were seperated, seemingly foreverIt was a miserable January night outside the French village of Rimling, made bleaker by advancing German troops from the 559th and 257th Volks-Grenadier Divisions. Don Hildenbrand's company was pinned down on a ridge about two miles from town, just a grenade toss from the border. Their communications line had been cut and German units had pushed past them on both flanks. "Everybody knew something bad was going to happen, we were badly outnumbered," Hildenbrand recalled Saturday. Sgt. Pete Petracco asked for a volunteer to...

U. S. JURY INDICTS 18 AS SPIES IN REICH GOVERNMENT’S PAY; SECRET SERVICE HEAD NAMED Spy Hunt Here Was Begun by Clue From Abroad to Woman in the Plot She Was Accused of Acting as ‘Postoffice’ in Scotland for Letters Between Leaders of Ring in Reich and Agents Here By A. H. LEVIERO The first phase of the espionage investigation that was ended yesterday by a special Federal grand jury got off to a small start in Dundee, Scotland, early last January. Threaded back through New York City, where it originated, a tenuous clue picked up in Dundee finally caused...

CHINESE RESIGNED TO FLOOD SACRIFICE TO CHECK INVADERS Groups in Shanghai Maintain That the Japanese Must Be Halted at Any Cost VAST NEW AREA MENACED Yellow River’s Waters 100 Miles From Banks – Drive Up Yangtze Is Pushed Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. SHANGHAI, June 16. – No sacrifice is too great so save China, Shanghai Chinese say in discussing the Yellow River flood, and the writer has yet to find a single Chinese who is perturbed over the prospect of the widespread suffering and death over the North China plain that a serious flood would bring. Expressing views...

CHINESE ATTACKING JAPANESE IN FLOOD Invaders Still Held East of Chengchow by Vast Waters of the Yellow River By F. TILLMAN DURDIN Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. HANKOW, China, Monday, June 13. – The Yellow River, “China’s sorrow” is becoming increasingly a protagonist in the war against Japan. According to Chinese press reports from Chengchow the waters of the giant river are sweeping through breached embankments at Chaokow and Yangchiao, flooding the plains of Northern Honan Province, inundating may villages and impeding the Japanese advance along the Lung-Hair Railway. The main stream of the flood waters was said to...

LONDON CONSIDERS PROTEST TO ITALY ON REBEL BOMBERS Indignation Is High Over Raid on Gandia, a British-Owned Port in Loyalist Spain LONE PLANE WRECKS TOWN Sinks a Dredger, Shatters 20 Freight Cars and Machine-Guns Harbor Buildings By The Associated Press. LONDON, June 8. – Great Britain tonight considered putting squarely before Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy the matter of repeated Spanish Insurgent attacks on British shipping. Viscount Halifax. The Foreign Secretary, broke short a holiday to return to his post at the Foreign Office as public indignation mounted higher with each new bombardment of a British ship in Spain. An...

700 SLAIN, 1,300 WOUNDED BY BOMBINGS IN CANTON; JAPAN IGNORES PROTESTS CIVILIAN AREAS HIT News Agency in Tokyo Says Air Attacks Will Not Be Curbed CHINESE BEGIN A RETREAT Lung-Hai Front Is Reported to Have Collapsed – Officials and Civilians Quit Hankow On the heels of the condemnation by the United States and Britain of bombings of civilian areas the Japanese yesterday launched another severe airplane raid on Canton. Casualties were put at 700 dead and 1,300 wounded, adding to the toll of 750 killed and 1,350 injured on May 28. The semi-official Domei News Agency declared Japan’s policy would...

Navy ‘Torpedoes’ Test ‘Shell-Proof Hull’ Secretly Designed for New Battleships Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. PHILADELPHIA, June 3. – The navy made secret tests today of a new “shell-proof” hull by exploding charges of dynamite against it on a raft in the Delaware River off the League Island Navy Yard. Torpedo explosions were simulated by means of dynamite blasts sent against the specially designed steel caisson, built like a section of a ship’s hull, which may revolutionize battleship construction. The test blasts were heard all over the southern part of the city. Navy yard aides explained the experiment was...

THIS DAY IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY May 22nd 1862: • Confederate Gen. Thomas Jackson's troops depart from the Luray Gap and begin their advance on Port Royal. • The Confederate ship Constitution is captured by the USS Mount Vernon near Wilmington, NC. • The USS Whitehead captures the Confederate sloop Ella D at Keel's Creek, NC. 1863: • Gen. Ulysses Grant orders a second assault on the Confederate defenses surrounding Vicksburg. Assisting are the Union gunboats Benton, Mound City, Carondelet, and Tuscumbia who shell the city. The Confederate defenders throw back Grant's second and last attempt to take Vicksburg...

CEDILLO’S MEN CUT TAMPICO RAIL LINE; ARMY IS ON GUARD 10,000 Federal Troops in San Luis Potosi – Generals Shun Support of a Revolt CARDENAS STAYS IN NORTH Severing of the Road From Mexico City Is Feared – Ex-Envoy Alters Route By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. MEXICO CITY, May 20. – Irregular raiders – armed peasant followers of General Saturnino Cedillo – have gone into action in the State of San Luis Potosi and have cut the railway between Tampico and the city of San Luis Potosi, capital of the State of San Luis...

Engines on the B-17 bomber roared to life. Wind gusted through open cracks around the gun turrets of the World War II plane as it took off from Boeing Field. Stacks of vintage black radios vibrated against the green aluminum walls. From the bombardier station in the plane's glass nose, Seattle's streets and landmarks appeared like a map as the plane skimmed along at 150 mph. Seattle is the 15th of about 60 stops that the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is making to showcase the B-17 on its Salute to the Veterans tour. The tour is more about honoring war...

ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR GENERAL MICHAEL JEFFERY AC CVO MC GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA ON THE OCCASION OF SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN MEMORIAL, FIELD MARSHAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY SQUARE, CANBERRA The recent discovery of HMAS SYDNEY after more than 66 years - with so many lives lost, so many grieving families - has been a poignant reminder, if one were needed, of the significance of Australian and United States naval operations in the Second World War. You will recall that in 1941, Australian divisions, fighter squadrons and naval units were...

Insights into war and life from the last U.S. veteran of World War I "I realize now I was very young." Frank Buckles was 16 and lied about his age to the Army so he could enlist and go to Europe. It was 1917 and the country was facing the "war to end all wars." Now, at 107, he is America’s last living World War I veteran. At his farmhouse in West Virginia, he looks back at it all — driving ambulances in WWI, working on ships all over the world and surviving WWII in a prison camp — and...

CHINESE ESCAPING FROM ENEMY TRAP Japanese Report Foe Fleeing to West ‘Like Avalanche’ in Lung-Hai Region DEFENDERS SHOW SPIRIT Deny Railway Has Been Cut – Assert 27,000 Japanese Have Been Slain in Shansi By HUGH BYAS Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. TOKYO, Tuesday, May 17. – The Chinese have begun a general retreat, according to the Tokyo Asahi’s correspondent with front-line Japanese troops in the Lung-Hai Railway region. Heretofore no large Chinese troop movements had been observed during daylight, he reports, but since yesterday morning “the enemy has been fleeing westward like an avalanche.” The question now engrossing the...

Pictured: Lancaster bomber in dramatic flypast to mark 65th anniversary of Dambusters raidLast updated at 18:49pm on 16th May 2008  It is one of the most stirring images of the Second World War - a Lancaster bomber coming in terrifyingly low over a huge dam.  Today, the last surviving pilot of the epic Dambusters operation was present to witness a spectacular re-enactment as one of the bombers flew again above the Derwent Valley dam in Derbyshire to mark the 65th anniversary of the raid. Scroll down for more...Bombs away: The world's only flying Lancaster makes a low pass over...

MUSSOLINI REVEALS POWER OF HIS ARMY AS HITLER LOOKS ON Reich Dictator Impressed by Marching Troops and Their Excellent Equipment MECHANIZED UNITS SHOWN Gayda Says Italy’s Two Recent War Tests Have Raised the Nation’s Fighting Morale Premier Mussolini showed his land forces to Chancellor Hitler yesterday in an impressive display in Rome. The German leader was cordially but not enthusiastically cheered. The soldiers paraded with the goose-step, but it was evidently not liked. The mechanized units and chemical warfare regiment created a strong impression. An audience of 100,000 attended an open-air concert given for Hitler. Virginio Gayda, Fascist editor, criticized...

COMMONS VOTES ROME PACT; CHAMBERLAIN EXTOLS DUCE AS HITLER STARTS FOR ITALY BALLOT IS 316 TO 108 Labor Irate as Premier Praises ‘New Vision’ of Modern Italy HIS EYE ON ROME MEETING He Reveals Palestine Is Item in Deal – Accused of Distorting Approval by Roosevelt The British House of Commons delivered a salute to Premier Mussolini as Chancellor Hitler was on his way to Rome, ratifying the Anglo-Italian treaty, 316 to 108. Praise of Italian good faith by Prime Minister Chamberlain brought furious attacks from Labor and Liberal leaders. Revelation was made that Italy had agreed to cease agitation...

BRITAIN AND FRANCE AGREE ON A DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE; UNIFIED COMMANDS IN WARPOOL WAR BUYING Orders for Stores, to Be Set Up in France, Will Go to Central Europe AIM IS TO OUTBID GERMANY Paris Submits to London on Italy and Spain – May Even Curb Czech Commitments By FERDINAND KUHN Jr. Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. LONDON, April 28. – An ironclad defensive alliance between Great Britain and France became a reality in all but name tonight after seven hours of momentous discussions between the prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the two countries. On land, on sea and...

BRITAIN MAY PUSH DEAL WITH REICH Chamberlain’s Vacation With Londonderry Seen as Step Toward Prompt Approach PEER IN TOUCH WITH NAZIS Conservatives Support Peace Program, but Labor Paper Voices Grave Doubt By FERDINAND KUHN, Jr. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. LONDON, April 17. – With the Anglo-Italian agreement safely signed and almost universally approved, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived in the far north of Scotland this morning to spend a vacation of almost a week as the guest of the Marquess of Londonderry. The Prime Minister is staying near Brora, a little seashore town in Sutherlandshire at the...

LODZ, Poland (AP) - Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the 1943 uprising in the Warsaw ghetto by a handful of scrappy, poorly armed Jews against the Nazi army, becomes emotional when he speaks of the fighters he led. "I remember them all—boys and girls—220 altogether, not too many to remember their faces, their names," says the 89-year-old doctor, who still works in a Lodz hospital. Edelman will lay a wreath in their honor at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto on Saturday, the 65th anniversary of the uprising. The Nazis walled off the ghetto in November...

BRITAIN IS SEEKING WAR PLANES HERE Unable to Overtake Germany Quickly Enough, She Turns to U. S. and Canada Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. London, April 13. – Finding that it cannot catch up with Germany quickly enough in the race for air supremacy, the British Government announced today that it had decided to make inquiries for military aircraft across the Atlantic. “Definite exploratory action is being taken in regard to the possibility of the supply of aircraft for the Royal Air Force both from the United States and Canada,” Earl Winterton, Under-Secretary of State for Air, told...

CHINESE IN REVOLT BEHIND FOES’ LINES Guards of the Puppet Regime in Shantung Attempt to Seize Tsinan, the Capital MORE INVADERS CUT OFF Forces in Taierhchwang Area Reported to Be Running Short of Food and Ammunition By F. TILLMAN DURDINWireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. HANKOW, China, Sunday, April 10. – Japanese and Chinese are fighting in widespread suburbs of Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, following a revolt yesterday by two battalions of Chinese who had surrendered when the invaders occupied the city. The Chinese had been reorganized under the puppet Governor, Ma Liang, and had been used to maintain...

REBELS SPREAD OUT OVER COAST ROADS; BARCELONA IS GOAL Three Columns Offer Threat to Catalan Capital – Power Temporarily Cut Off TORTOSA STILL HOLDS OUT ‘Suicide Squads’ Keep Up Fight – Premier Takes Key Post in New War Cabinet Insurgent shock troops hammered at the defenses of Tortosa yesterday while other contingents spread out to blanket the east coast network of roads. Barcelona’s power supply was interrupted, presumably because of capture of bombardment of a hydroelectric station. In the face of the menacing situation the Loyalists reorganized their Cabinet, with Premier Negrin emerging as the strong man charged with carrying...

GRIPPING, crystal-clear new pictures of HMAS Sydney reveal the devastating bombardment by the Germans - but are also testament to the heroics of Aussie gunners who never gave up. Shipwreck investigator David Mearns said the images were remarkable for their clarity and their documentation of the punishment suffered by Sydney and its crew. "I have studied many historical accounts of the battle between Sydney and Kormoran, but none of these could fully prepare me for the enormous damage withstood by Sydney,'' he said. One of the new photos shows a cluster of four large-calibre shell hits on Sydney's starboard side....

FIRST pictures have been released of the wreck of HMAS Sydney which sank in 1941 with the loss of all 645 crew. The eerie shots come just weeks after a search team pinpointed the wreck and that of the German raider Kormoran, which sank it. The two ships destroyed each other in a ferocious battle of the West Australian coast on November 19, 1941. Of the Kormoran crew, 317 people survived.

A Gresham veteran wants an historic bottle of Chivas Regal preserved in a Marine museum A Gresham man who won a piece of U.S. Marine Corps history during a veterans auction is trying to make sure his prize -- a bottle of scotch in a handmade oak display case -- doesn't end up collecting dust in the back of a closet. Reese "Andy" Anderson, who served three years in the fabled 6th Marine Division during World War II, hopes to get what's called "The Last Man's Bottle" displayed at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia. The bottle...

REBEL PUSH SLOWS; LERIDA STILL HELD BY LOYALIST ARMY Defenders Found in Strong Positions and Catalan City Temporarily Saved HEAVY FIGHTING GOES ON Insurgents Halted South of the Town, but Northern Column Advances By HERBERT L. MATTHEWSWireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. BARCELONA, Spain, March 29. – The fighting for Lerida went on with extraordinary intensity today with the Insurgents thrusting from two directions. They appear to have been halted on their right wing, where they struck along the road from Fraga, fifteen miles southwest, for the writer has just returned from the other side of Alcarraz, nine miles west...

German Luftwaffe pilot returns to Bath to apologise for wartime bombing Last updated at 18:02pm on 27th March 2008 A decorated German Luftwaffe pilot is to return to the city he bombed during World War Two to make a public apology. Bomber pilot Willi Schludecker demolished dozens of Georgian buildings in Bath, Somerset, in April 1942 in his Dornier 217E-4. Now 87 years-old and in failing health, his dying wish is to make amends with the city which lost 400 residents in the raid. Scroll down for more... Return: Willi Schludecker will make amends with Bath in a service next...

The following article derives from a paper the author delivered at the 1998 Conference of Army Historians in Bethesda, Maryland. Finding the middle, where the truth sometimes rests, requires you to know the edges. When it comes to responsibility for the victory of the United States Army on San Juan Heights, Cuba, on 1 July 1898, the edges are easy to find. On one side, there is the Teddy-centric view, first and most clearly expressed in the writings of Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt of the 1st Volunteer Cavalry Regiment—the legendary Rough Riders. Roosevelt’s memoir of Cuba so emphasized his own...

One should not forget. . . that the earth is round and that "every road leads to Rome." WALDEMAR ERFURTH, Surprise Every now and then in the history of mankind, events of surpassing importance take place in little-known areas of the earth. And men and women in countries distant from those events whose lives turn into unexpected and unwanted channels because of them can but wonder how it all happened to come about. So it was with Korea in 1950. In this ancient land of high mountains and sparkling streams the United Nations fought its first war. For decades it...

The Selected Civil War Photographs Collection contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men. An additional two hundred autographed portraits of army and navy officers, politicians, and cultural figures can be seen in the Civil War photograph album, ca. 1861-65. (James Wadsworth Family Papers). The full album pages are displayed as well as the front and verso of each carte de visite, revealing...

HAWAII’S DEFENSE FACES SEVERE TEST 150 Warships and 500 Planes Joining in Vast Manoeuvres in Mid-Pacific SECRECY IS INCREASING No Details of Movements of Army and Navy Are Given Out for Publication By VERN HINKLEY By Air Mail to THE NEW YORK TIMES HONOLULU, March 16. – The navy’s Problem 19, second big-scale war game in the mid-Pacific sector within a year, is now under way beginning with the departure of the fleet from San Pedro last Tuesday. An armada of 150 fighting ships plus 500 modern aircraft, manned by 3,600 officers and 55,000 men, has begun manoeuvring along...

The Rev. Jacob Daniel "Jake" DeShazer, who was the oldest survivor of World War II's historic Doolittle Raid on Japan, died Saturday, March 15, 2008, at his home in Salem. He was 95. DeShazer stood out among the 80 Doolittle Raiders, 11 of whom are still alive. After spending 40 months post-raid as a prisoner of war, he returned to Japan intent on forgiving his former captors and converting them to Christianity. Over 30 years, he helped start 23 churches in Japan. Born Nov. 15, 1912, in Madras to a wheat-farming family, DeShazer graduated from Madras High School in 1931....

<p>Long before green beer and fake Irish brogues, March 17 has meant something in South Boston. It was the day in 1776 when the Continental Army sneaked 50 cannons up Dorchester Heights and chased the Red Coats out of Boston without a fight.</p>

POLISH ARMY SET TO INVADE LITHUANIA UNLESS DEMANDS ARE ACCEPTED TODAY; ‘CLERICALS’ ARE ARRESTED IN VIENNA Hull Declares We Stand for Peace But Not Retreat Before ‘Anarchy’ Urging Arms to Command Respect, He Says We Will Defend Far East Rights – We Bar Alliances, Not Parallel Action Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. WASHINGTON, March 17. – A firm foreign policy which involves no retreat in the face of disruptive events in Europe and the Far East was presented to the nation today by Secretary Hull in an address at a luncheon of the National Press Club. He strongly...

PARIS (AP) — France on Monday honored its last World War I veteran, who died last week, and all the other 8.4 million Frenchmen who fought in the conflict a century ago that tore Europe apart. The day of tribute began with a Roman Catholic funeral Mass attended by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, government ministers, soldiers and teary-eyed members of the family of Lazare Ponticelli. Ponticelli died last Wednesday at age 110. Born in Italy, Ponticelli was a French citizen for most of the past century. Worldwide, only a handful of veterans of the 1914-1918 war remain alive. Sarkozy decided...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In honour of the crouching, naked blonde painted on its nose, its pilot had named his bomber the "Hot as Hell". But it was a freezing and stormy day as the American B-24 Liberator made its way across the Himalayas on Jan 25, 1944, flying what was known as "the Hump", perhaps the most dangerous route in air transport history. It was one of nine American planes that went down that day as they tried to resupply China's besieged army in the city of Kunming, desperately trying to hold out against the invading Japanese during World...

The group searching for HMAS Sydney has found the wreckage of the World War II Australian warship off the coast of Western Australia, the ABC has confirmed. The breakthrough by the Finding Sydney Foundation comes less than 24 hours after it announced it had located the wreckage of the German raider Kormoran, which also sank after a battle with the Sydney in November 1941.

Inside the amazing cave city that housed 25,000 Allied troops under German noses in WWIBy ROBERT HARDMAN - More by this author » Last updated at 11:53am on 15th March 2008  The wax is still melted on to the chalk pillar which served as an Easter Sunday altar for the men of the Suffolk Regiment more than 90 years ago.   Old helmets are scattered around the floor. A heap of cans, including a tin of Turnwrights Toffee Delight, lies alongside a collection of old stone jars - flagons of rum, perhaps, to numb the fear of the battle ahead....

How the Eton-educated wartime Aga Khan offered '30,000 armed Arabs' to help Hitler - but still evaded treason trialLast updated at 18:34pm on 8th March 2008 Secret plan to help Hitler: Aga Khan III, pictured at the races   Britain dropped a secret plan to charge the Aga Khan's grandfather with treason despite evidence that he offered to help Hitler in the war, documents just released reveal.  Ministers shelved the proposed prosecution of Sultan Muhammad Shah – who was Aga Khan III at the time – for fear it would inflame Muslims.  The spiritual leader of the world's Zizari Ismaili...

He fought the Kaiser with the U.S. Army during World War I. As a civilian working in the Philippines shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was taken prisoner of war and ate out of the same tin cup for his more than three-year-long imprisonment. Today, the 107-year-old Frank Buckles—the last known U.S. military veteran to serve during World War I— was honored with a White House visit and was made the guest of honor at a ceremony at the Pentagon where portraits of Buckles and eight other World War I veterans were unveiled. “Mr. Buckles' mind is sharp,...

March 5, 1770 Civilians and soldiers clash in the Boston Massacre On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of angry colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins tossing snowballs and rocks at the lone British soldier guarding the building. The protesters opposed the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament without direct American representation. The previous Friday, British soldiers looking for part-time work and local Bostonian laborers had brawled at John Hancockýs wharf. After the brouhaha...

Bhanubhakta Gurung, VC Last Updated: 2:37am GMT 04/03/2008 Havildar Bhanubhakta Gurung, who has died aged 86, was awarded a VC when serving as a rifleman in the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Burma on March 5 1945. At that time the Fourteenth Army was making a drive toward Mandalay in central Burma, and the task of the 25th Division (of which the 2nd Gurkhas were part) was to engage in diversionary action along the coastal sector of Arakan. The 3rd Battalion landed at Ru-Ywa and advanced to the high ground east of Tamandu. Capturing the area would...