The tribute showing a British Spitfire, pursuing a German Messerschmitt 109 cut in to a corn field and laid as a maze – in Kendal, Cumbria, UK
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010Allies would have lost the Second World War had Hitler used deadly nerve gas: Expert
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010“New York, May 15 (ANI): As the D-Day anniversary approaches, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, Frank J. Dinan, has revealed what could have happened if Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had used the deadly nerve gas Tabun.
According to Professor Dinan, had Hitler used Tabun, the Allies could have been forced back into the sea with enormous casualties.”
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US, UK urged to lift secret of WWII munition dumps
Saturday, May 31st, 2008STRASBOURG, France, May 30 (Reuters) – Britain and the United States should reveal the location of chemical munitions seized from Nazi Germany at the end of World War Two and dumped in the Baltic Sea, the Council of Europe said on Friday.
The human rights watchdog said the exact location of the dumps, a military secret, should be made public to ensure that environmental risks connected with a planned underwater gas pipeline between Russia and Germany can be properly assessed.
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Norwegian team recovers rare WWII British dive-bomber from under the waters of a fjord
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008OSLO, Norway (AP) – A British Blackburn Skua dive-bomber that crashed-landed on a Norwegian fjord while attacking Nazi invasion forces in April 1940 has been recovered after 68 years under water, the project leader said Wednesday.
Klas Gjoelmesli, leader of the volunteer project, said he believes the plane will be the only complete example of the dive-bomber in the world after restoration, which will take several years, is completed.
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Norwegian navy discover British World War II destroyer
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Oslo – A team from the Norwegian navy have located a British destroyer that sank during World War II off the northern port of Narvik, the navy said Thursday. HMS Hunter was one of several vessels that went down during the April 10, 1940 battle of Narvik, a strategic port used to ship iron ore from Sweden to Germany.
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German WWII submarine U-534 to be moved to new loaction
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
A World War II German submarine is being cut up and moved to a new exhibition site on Merseyside by Cheshire-based main contractor Whitfield and Brown.
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