Six days after the attack, Japan surrendered to the Allies bringing to a close the most destructive conflict in recorded history that ended with the first two – and so far, only - nuclear attacks in ...

Shop from the 1930s, which contained the Furulund Bunker around World War II. Ullern district ... Norway said Friday it wants to reintroduce mandatory construction of air raid shelters in new ...

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

After learning about war history in class, the children were given a tour of the shelter, shown artefacts related to World War II and tried out air raid warden training. “When I drive to school ...

Twelve-year-old Nobuko Kamei was living with her parents and older sister in Kobe after returning from where she had evacuated to as World War II raged ... 1945, an air raid would kill over ...

A now 94-year-old man who lived through WWII in Orpington can still remember the first ever air raid that sounded, not knowing that his roof ...

ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...

During World War II, some served as air raid shelters for the local population and artistic treasures from Dutch museums. “The only thing all these structures have in common is that they’re ...