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Britain’s secret island where a WW2 experiment poisoned the land for 50 years

In 1942, British scientists carried out a classified military experiment on the remote island of Gruinard off the coast of ...
The Economist

Britain’s second-world-war veterans are dying out

Winston Churchill was clear. “My dear friends,” he said on May 8th 1945, standing on a balcony in Whitehall to address the cheering crowds below. “This is your hour.” Victory, he said, did not belong ...
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Britain's naval weakness in WWII: The imminent threat they couldn't stop

Every video on House of History is hand-animated from scratch. 🧾 Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 📚 Sources: Written by House of ...
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John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain. By Richard Goldstein Addressing ...