Posts made by Raunchy The Pirate
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Update on Glenn Millers plane
“a previously unreported sighting of the doomed plane has emerged”
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Deutschlandhalle has been demolished
In 1935 it was the largest sporting arena in the world.
In 1938 test pilot Hanna Reitsch performed the first indoor flight inside the building’s walls with a Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter.
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How Psychology Solved A WWII Shipwreck Mystery
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/27/140816037/how-psychology-solved-a-wwii-shipwreck-mystery?
Great story. Make sure to view all 7 tabs in the middle of the story.
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'Hitler's Tailor' Hugo Boss apologises for using slave labour
German fashion house Hugo Boss always tried to brush over its links to the Nazis. But now it is finally confronting the issue face on.
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Found after 67 years, B-17 remains
The dig was organised by Blakesley resident Romer Adams, who heard the plane crash when he was a five-year-old boy.
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Enigma machine to be autioned off.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/16/enigma.machine.auction/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
“In November last year, we set the world record price (£67,250, $106,164) for an Enigma machine at auction,”
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Amazing lost sketches of life inside Japanese PoW camp
Astonishing drawings of British soldiers in brutal Japanese Prisoner of War camps have turned up nearly 70 years later.
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Rare colour pictures of Adolf Hitler
The collection, charting Hitler’s rise to Fuhrer is to go under the hammer at a major militaria auction by Dreweatts in London next Tuesday.
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Camp that held Rommel's men surrenders its secrets
It was the only prison run by the Allies in the Second World War not to have any fences or barbed wire.
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Camp-that-held-Rommel39s-men.6825279.jp?articlepage=1
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Goebbels' secretary, 100, breaks vow of silence to reveal secrets.
It sounds like she finally made enough peace with herself to tell her story.
There can’t be to many first hand accounts left.