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The Defender Returns: Legendary Spitfire flown by WWII Polish pilots makes sentimental journey back to its wartime home

The Spitfire BM597 served with the 315 (City of Dęblin) squadron and the 317 (City of Wilno) squadron, part of the Polish Air Force under the command of the Royal Air Force from RAF Woodvale in Southport, the plane’s home of operations, but served mainly in the North-West from a base in Blackpool, the home of the Polish Airforce during WWII. lan Wilson/CC A-S 2.0

The Spitfire BM597 served with the 315 (City of Dęblin) squadron and the 317 (City of Wilno) squadron, part of the Polish Air Force under the command of the Royal Air Force from RAF Woodvale in Southport, the plane’s home of operations, but served mainly in the North-West from a base in Blackpool, the home of the Polish Airforce during WWII.

Extraordinary unseen reconnaissance photos of Warsaw show capital in different stages of WWII occupation

Principally comprised of aerial images taken by Luftwaffe reconnaissance planes throughout the duration of the occupation, the digital undertaking has been described as the largest collection of aerial photographs ever amassed of wartime Warsaw.

Secret network of tunnels found at former Nazi German army HQ raise speculation they could contain legendary Amber Room

The find, which was made by staff from the Mamerki museum in northeast Poland and a group of volunteer historical searchers, is described as the biggest discovery ever made at the 200-hectare forest headquarters.

Grandma at centre of Holocaust defamation row tells historians ‘write the truth about history’

Filomena Leszczyńska, the 80-year-old niece of wartime village mayor Edward Malinowski who historians said was complicit in a massacre of Jews during WWII, said: “If these researchers are well-educated and intelligent people, why is their research biased? Research should be impartial.”

Former far-right activist will not head IPN branch - unofficial report

Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, the body charged with investigating wartime and communist era crimes, has announced it will not appoint a man with past ties to a far-right group as head of its Wroclaw branch, PAP has learnt unofficially.

English Heritage issues plea for memories of elite Polish unit that trained at UK stately home during WWII

The Cichociemni, or the Silent Unseen, were elite special-operations paratroopers trained in the UK to carry out covert operations, sabotage and intelligence-gathering in occupied Poland. Most of them completed their training at Audley End House, an early 17th-century country house outside Saffron Walden, Essex, England, one of the finest Jacobean houses in the UK.

Roma camp liquidation in wartime ghetto marked online due to Covid-19

The 79th anniversary of the closure of a Roma camp in the World War Two Jewish ghetto in Poland's central city of Lodz, known as the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, was marked online on Tuesday due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I stood on the edge of Germany’s historical abyss…” The day West German Chancellor Willy Brandt stunned the world as he atoned for his country’s past

Commonly cited as one of the most iconic reconciliatory moments ever captured on camera, on this day 50 years ago the West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, sank to his knees in Warsaw in atonement of his nation’s wartime atrocities.

The Freedom Circus: new book explores a clown’s tale of Holocaust survival

From Warsaw to Melbourne via the Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa, The Freedom Circus charts a family’s extraordinary journey to freedom.

Monastic makeover: offshore wartime torpedo station gets recast as monastery

New design aims to give peace a chance by changing a military base into a place of prayer.

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