In the Summer of 1972, 14-year-old Judith Roberts took off for a bike ride within the vicinity of her Staffordshire home. Her ...

Propaganda when used effectively can create a myth of great potency, but to have a lasting effect it has to be based on truth. Fakes always disappoint when found out. In the Great War the myth of the ...

Halloween Ghosts and Halloween Crimes! There are notorious tales of the supernatural undead preying on unsuspecting innocent victims at Halloween. Ghostly tales flood the media at this time of year, ...

On 11th July 2013 I sent a Freedom Of Information Request (FOI) to Staffordshire Police. Could I have a copy of the Pathologist Report concerning Judith Roberts murder 7.6.1972 and a copy of the ...

Under cloudless blue skies, the Oakwood Cemetery Annex in Montgomery, Alabama hosts the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the United States. Most of the graves contain young RAF ...

To the fifteen passengers and crew onboard the lumbering Short Sunderland flying boat, everything appeared normal and routine as it lifted off from the seaplane base at RAF Invergordon on Sunday, 25 ...

The Type VIIC U-boat, U-202 ‘Innsbruck’, skippered by Kapitänleutnant Hans-Heinz Lindner had left Lorient in Brittany on 26 May 1942 and was heading west, running on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean ...

On October 11, 2024, National Geographic Magazine reported on the most momentous news in the history of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, since the discovery of Mallory’s body in 1999. Sometime during ...

According to Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Fighter Command’s Commander-in-Chief during the Battle of Britain, the contest began on 10 July 1940. This, his Lordship admitted in his Despatch published ...

Having turned away from targeting 11 Group’s Sector Stations at a critical, if not decisive, moment, and instead bombed London round-the-clock, partly in retaliation for Bomber Command attacking ...

From Rifleman to Air Marshal, Sir Brian Baker excelled in every role. Having transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and learning to fly in record time on a Maurice Farman Longhorn, he progressed to a ...