Tag: WWII
Fresh paint against drones: Russian frigate uses WWII camouflage method
Fresh paint against drones Russian frigate uses WWII camouflage method 06/25/2023 10:06 p.m In recent months, the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been the target of Ukrainian naval drones several…
Philippines: Wreckage of WWII ship with more than 1,000 victims found
After eight decades of mystery, discovery. The wreckage of a Japanese ship torpedoed during World War II with more than 1,000 people on board, mostly Australian prisoners, has been found…
WWII shipwreck with more than 1,000 victims on board found more than 80 years later
This photo taken in 1941 shows the Japanese ship “Montevideo Maru” at sea. HANDOUT / AFP Eight decades of mystery, guesswork, waiting, and then discovery: the wreckage of a Japanese…
Tonight on TV: One of the most powerful WWII films
Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Lino Ventura as a hero of the Resistance at Jean-Pierre Melville. After The Silence of the Sea (1949) and…
US: Six dead in Saturday WWII plane crash in Texas
A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and a Bell P-63 KingCobra fighter collided in mid-air before hitting the ground during an air show Saturday in Dallas. Six people died in…
US: Six dead in WWII plane crash in Texas
Six people died in a World War II plane crash Saturday at an air show in Dallas, Texas in the United States, a local elected official announced on Sunday. A…
World enters ‘most dangerous’ decade since WWII, Putin says
The Russian president delivered a foreign policy speech at an economic and diplomatic forum in which he again denounced the West. Russia is only defending its “right to existin the…
WWII bomb kills man in Czech town
A World War II bomb killed one man and injured another in Ostrava, eastern Czech Republic, on Friday (April 8th) when it exploded during excavation work, police and media reported.…
New WWII movies tell us about today’s concerns
To analyse. It was thought to have been definitively cooled, passed into the historical realm, the object of henceforth dispassionate studies and debates. Like those bombs buried in European soil…
VIDEO – A WWII bunker rediscovered in Châlons-en-Champagne
HISTORY – French municipalities are sometimes home to unsuspected treasures. In Châlons-en-Champagne, in the Marne, history buffs have discovered a former bunker forgotten from the Second World War. Hundreds of…