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Name: Battle of Britain

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

McDonald's Corporation

The week that was ...

For a number of years now, we have not been in Cooperstown for the spring season. And we must admit that we had quite forgotten what it is like. But since we decided that travel was not on the docket for this year, we have become reacquainted with the ... [Published Cooperstown Crier - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Natural Gas, McDonald's Corporation, Fischer-Tropsch, Forsythia

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

RAF Brize Norton

Llandudno Air Show hoping to bring in the crowds - with event timetable

The eventwill feature all manner of air displays and will raise cash for charitiesIT’S hoped a spectacular air show will bring visitors flocking to a resort on Saturday.The first Llandudno Air Show, organised and sponsored by land owners Mostyn Estates, ... [Published North Wales Daily Post - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Hurricanes, RAF Brize Norton, RAF Valley, Red Arrows

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Standouts among Hollywood's many attempts to portray the conflict

(EDITORS: Monday is Memorial Day, when we honor the dead from America's wars. To mark the anniversary, Orange County Register Travel Editor Gary A. Warner, the newspaper's one-time military reporter, offers his updated list of the best World War II m ... [Published Idaho Statesman - 6 hours ago]

Entities: William Holden, Gregory Peck, Patton (United States), Battle of Britain

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Frazer Nash

Great escapism: classic war films to be screened over four days

The Weekend at War programme, which is being shown at the Stratford Picture House, will begin with The Great Escape, released in 1963, on July 4 to coincide with US Independence Day. Other featured classics will include The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), ... [Published London Evening Standard - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Frazer Nash, Battle of Britain, Escape

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

Together we can defeat poverty

From: Richard Bridge, Holgate Road, York. BACK in 2006, David Cameron said: "I want this message to go out loud and clear. The Conservative Party recognises, will measure and will act on relative poverty." While even die-hard Conservatives will now acknowledge ... [Published Yorkshire Post - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Christa Ackroyd, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), NHS

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

How ‘two local hacks’ recreated Dambusters flights

Two former regional press journalists have recalled the day more than 35 years ago when they helped the Dambusters return to Derbyshire?s Peak District. Photographer David Green and Reporter Philip Lyon were working for the Halifax Courier when they decided ... [Published Hold The Front Page - 17 hours ago]

Entities: RAF Strike Command, Halifax (Canada), Guy Gibson, Aviation

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Chinook display confirmed for Wings and Wheels at Dunsfold

A CHINOOK helicopter will be gracing the skies above Dunsfold Aerodrome once again at Wings & Wheels this summer, it has been confirmed.The Chinook, now synonymous with combat operations in Afghanistan, will have its power and manoeuvrability demonstrated ... [Published Godalming People - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Chinook, Godalming (United Kingdom), Red Arrows

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

RAF firefighter's death reviewed

A watchdog has ordered Thames Valley Police to review its investigation into the death of a Scottish RAF firefighter at an Oxfordshire barracks.Senior Aircraftsman (SAC) Robert Fleeting, 24, of South Lanarkshire, was found dead in his room at RAF Benson ... [Published BBC - May 21 2013]

Entities: Battle of Britain, Thames Valley Police, RAF Benson, Royal Air, Independent Police Complaints Commission

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Spitfire and Hurricane in Battle of the Atlantic River Mersey salute

World War Two icons fly-by scheduled for Saturday afternoonA Spitfire and a Hurricane will pay their own unique tribute to the veterans this weekend by flying over the River Mersey.The World War Two fighter planes, from the Battle of Britain Memorial ... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 22 2013]

Entities: Hurricanes, Liverpool (United Kingdom), World War II

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Classic care head to bunker

THE Battle of Britain Bunker at RAF Uxbridge is to host a classic car show.The bunker, which has been open to the public at weekends since March, is the location from which the Royal Air Force controlled the air defence of south-east England during the ... [Published Uxbridge Gazette - May 22 2013]

Entities: RAF Uxbridge, Austin 10, Jim Richardson, Battle of Britain, UK Royal Air Force

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Will heritage centre ever take off?

â¢ Plan to build lasting tribute to Biggin Hill has stalledTHE "collapse" of a trust-led initiative to build a heritage centre for Biggin Hill has prompted the local Battle of Britain Supporters' Club to propose its own scheme.The club said the latest ... [Published Biggin Today - May 22 2013]

Entities: Battle of Britain, Bromley, Ministry of Defence

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Vulcan Bomber to Perform at English Air Show

The last remaining Avro Vulcan V bomber will be taking to the skies at the annual Weston-super-Mare Air Day on England’s Bristol Channel coast this summer. The iconic aircraft, used by the Royal Air Force between 1956 and 1984 and known as XH558, will ... [Published Flight Journal - May 21 2013]

Entities: UK Royal Air Force, Bomber, Avro Vulcan, Bristol Channel, Red Arrows

Quotes

But by 1945, Kennedy was clearly put off by the defeated Germans and their total acceptance of authority. "It shows just how easy it would be to seize power in Germany" he wrote after a 1945 visit to a U-boat building yard

A Berliner in 1963 – but did John F Kennedy once admire Adolf Hitler? [Published The Independent - 4 hours ago]

Churchill, perhaps realising that history would remember the sacrifice of more high profile battles, wrote: "We shall not fail, and then some day, when children ask ‘What did you do to win?’, one will say ‘I was a fighter pilot’, another will say ‘I was in the Submarine Service’ another ‘I marched with the Eighth Army’. A fourth will say ‘None of you could have lived without the convoys and the merchant seamen’"

Chris Durban: I sank a German U-boat in 1943, I was just 20-years-old and terrified [Published The Independent - 6 hours ago]

From: Richard Bridge, Holgate Road, York. BACK in 2006, David Cameron said: "I want this message to go out loud and clear. The Conservative Party recognises, will measure and will act on relative poverty." While even die-hard Conservatives will now acknowledge compassionate Conservatism was a mere chimera, calls for even Labour to abandon the pledge to...

Together we can defeat poverty [Published Yorkshire Post - 12 hours ago]

...Dan Snow, whose grandfather served in the Battle of the Atlantic, and who will deliver a sell-out lecture at Merseyside Maritime Museum, said: "On Sunday in Liverpool, the headquarters of the British effort during the Battle of the Atlantic, there will be a time to remember those, like my grandpa, who gave years or, in many cases, their lives in the longest of the Second World War battles."

Liverpool News: Battle of the Atlantic: Mersey was only place for this final tribute [Published Liverpool Daily Post - 16 hours ago]

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Together we can defeat poverty [Published Yorkshire Post - 12 hours ago]
Liverpool News: Battle of the Atlantic: Mersey ... [Published Liverpool Daily Post - 16 hours ago]
How ‘two local hacks’ recreated Dambusters flights [Published Hold The Front Page - 17 hours ago]
Chinook display confirmed for Wings and Wheels ... [Published Godalming People - 23 hours ago]
Falmouth hosts Armed Forces Day: DETAILS and EV... [Published Falmouth Packet - May 22 2013]
'The service brought back memories, particular... [Published This is Lincolnshire - May 22 2013]
Titchwell hotel offers tea with a best-selling ... [Published EDP 24 - May 22 2013]
Spitfire and Hurricane in Battle of the Atlanti... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 22 2013]
Classic care head to bunker [Published Uxbridge Gazette - May 22 2013]
Will heritage centre ever take off? [Published Biggin Today - May 22 2013]
RAF firefighter's death reviewed [Published BBC - May 21 2013]
Pat, 92, recalls helping to build parts for Dam... [Published Stroud News and Journal - May 21 2013]
Vulcan Bomber to Perform at English Air Show [Published Flight Journal - May 21 2013]
Red Arrows 'Spectacular' Planned For Scarborough [Published Yorkshire Coast Radio - May 21 2013]
RAF to salute Dambusters at air tattoo [Published Stroud News and Journal - May 21 2013]
Video: Royal guest at Benson military ceremony [Published Henley Standard - May 21 2013]
Legend makes a flying visit [Published This is Bristol - May 21 2013]
Sir Ed lauded as a 'great Briton' [Published MSN New Zealand - May 21 2013]
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Brigadier-General Zdenek Skarvada: Spitfire pil... [Published The Independent - May 21 2013]
Professional Flight Training Exhibition launche... [Published Royal Air Force - May 20 2013]
Our neutrality in WWII put women 20 years behin... [Published Irish Independent - May 20 2013]

Blogs

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Seen from the inside: stunning Lancaster’s on-b... [Published The Aviationist - May 18 2013] On May 16-17, UK’s Royal Air Force celebrates the 70th anniversary of one its most famous raid in RAF history: the Dams raid conducted by 617 Squadron . The “Dambusters”, half of those never returned from the raids, were honoured with a dramatic ...
News story: Dambusters raid remembered [Published Inside government - Ministry of Defence - May 16 2013] Special events taking place today, 16 May, to commemorate the daring night-time raid on dams in the Ruhr Valley in Germany during the Second World War, include a flypast by a Lancaster bomber of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at Derwent Reservoir ...
UK Ministry of Defense Deems Wind Towers a Nati... [Published The Moderate Voice - May 07 2013] UK Ministry of Defense Deems Wind Towers a National Security Threat by James C.K. Daley Twenty-plus years on, the collapse of the USSR in 1991 threatened massive Western defense budgets, bereft of a major enemy like the “Evil Empire.” Western militaries ...
Jaws, Nuclear Weapons, and Cyber War [Published Foreign Policy BlogsForeign Policy Blogs \| The ... - May 02 2013] “It’s all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, ‘Huh? What?’ You yell shark, we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.” In the summer of 1975, the budding auteur, Steven Spielberg, created a virtual panic at America’s beaches ...
Detailed guidance: Defence Medical Services [Published Inside government - Ministry of Defence - May 01 2013] Updated: Added News links Overview The Defence Medical Services (DMS) includes the Headquarters Surgeon General (HQSG), Joint Medical Command (JMC), Defence Dental Services (DDS) and the three single Service medical organisations. It is headed by the ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: Rare WWII plane to be raised from sea [Published BBC News Video - UK - May 03 2013]