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The recruitment drive came after industry warned a lack of immigrants because of coronavirus would leave vegetables rotting in the fields.

Dame Vera Lynn, the iconic Forces’ Sweetheart who raised national morale during the war years, has urged Britons to call on that same community spirit and selflessness to see them through the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Her Majesty The Queen marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landings and the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in a Christmas messsage which stressed reconciliation, and the beginning of great things from small steps.

THIMISTER-CLERMONT, Belgium (AP) – As a schoolboy three-quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshift American cemetery – filled with bodies, some headless, some limbless, blood seeping from the vehicles onto the roads that the U.S. soldiers had given their lives to liberate.

LONDON (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II joined Britons in remembering their war dead, as the country’s political leaders paused campaigning for the Dec. 12 election to take part in a sombre Remembrance Sunday service in London.

German authorities say two World War II-era bombs found in two major cities have been successfully defused and disposed of.

Greece’s newly elected prime minister has said during a visit in Berlin that he hopes Germany will agree to start negotiations on war reparations.

An event commemorating the D-Day landings took a distinctly political turn Thursday after French president Emmanuel Macron used his speech to promote the European Union, the political bloc he aspires to turn into a military power.

(Associated Press) — The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity.

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The five beaches are silent at dawn but forever haunted. As the sun rose Thursday over the Normandy coastline where thousands of men bled and died 75 years ago, a fast-diminishing number of World War II veterans remembered D-Day and hoped the world never forgets the sacrifices made to dismantle Nazi tyranny.

The third and final day of President Trump’s State Visit to the United Kingdom kicked off Wednesday morning in Portsmouth, the home of the Royal Navy, for a day of commemorations of the D-Day landings of 1944. 

DOVER, England (AP) – It took but a few moments for retired Rear Adm. John Roberts to get back into the swing of military life as he arrived Sunday at the English Channel port of Dover to board a ship bound for Normandy and events marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

ABOARD AN INVASION SHIP (AP) – This story was first published on June 5, 1944, hours before AP journalist Don Whitehead, who became known by his colleagues as “Beachhead Don” landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day with the 1st Infantry Division. The AP is republishing Whitehead’s original report to mark the 75th anniversary of the assault that began the liberation of France and Europe from German occupation, leading to the end of World War II.

TOPCROFT, England (AP) – David Woodrow, 95, raises the American flag beside a memorial on his farm in eastern England every morning, weather permitting.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Bomber Command air crew who lost their lives during the Second World War has been vandalised in London, along with a nearby statue of wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill. 

Veteran economist and former governor of the Bank of England Lord King launched a significant attack on British Prime Minister’s Brexit deal and economic forecasts surrounding it made by the Bank, but the present governor hit back, mocking his predecessor for being “less successful”.

To the media, the highest civic duty of a Republican is to yield to a Democrat, so that the “long arc of history” may continue bending towards utopia. So it was with George H.W. Bush.

Second World War veteran Peter Gouldstone, 98, has died in hospital after a savage beating in his London home.

The Dutch national railway company says it will set up a commission to investigate how it can pay individual reparations for its role in mass deportations of Jews by Nazi occupiers during World War II.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) – Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Sunday attended Greece’s annual military parade commemorating Greece’s entry into World War II – against Italy.

TEL AVIV – The editor of a major Arabic-language paper has urged the Arab world to stop clinging to a past that no longer exists and start learning from Europe, which gave up on violence and war in favor of peace and modernity. 

In this week’s Delingpole podcast, James and his brother Dick – a self-described “libertarian” and “occasional historical French soldier” – discuss “soul healing” after giving up Twitter for Lent, the absurdity of the Nazi Pug trial, and the unfortunate emasculation of Canada under “President Bieber”.

Jewish communities across Europe are enduring a level of mainstream anti-Semitism “not seen since the Second World War,” the European Jewish Congress has warned.

Perhaps the next time we hear another hateful comment about the Holocaust from an Iranian official, we can remind ourselves of the two pre- and post-revolutionary Irans.

A family-run television channel specialising in vintage British programmes is in trouble after the regulator ruled its broadcasting of a World War II drama unacceptably ‘racist’.

TEL AVIV – The Holocaust is the greatest lie in history, invented by the Jews to extort the world, and gas chambers were used to disinfect clothes and nothing more, an Egyptian TV host said on national television in a program broadcast on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

(SKY NEWS) – An estimated 100,000 people lost their lives during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War Two, but the event does not have a dedicated national memorial in Britain.

The French Ambassador to the U.S. has used Pearl Harbor Day to attack America’s role in the Second World War, insinuating the U.S. betrayed France by not fighting in the early years of the conflict.

LONDON (AP) – Prince Charles has led Britain’s annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony for war dead, taking the role held for more than six decades by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

Members of the Royal British Legion (RBL) have vowed to boycott their local church service this coming Remembrance Sunday after the progressively-minded vicar banned a popular traditional hymn over concerns it could offend.

BERLIN (AP) – German authorities are making final preparations in Frankfurt before experts defuse a huge World War II-era bomb Sunday in an operation that includes evacuating more than 60,000 residents. Hospital patients and the elderly are among those affected

LONDON (AP) – Ken Wilkinson, one of the last survivors of “The Few” – the band of pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain – has died. He was 99. The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said Wilkinson died

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A lawmaker says Poland is looking into demanding reparations from Germany for the massive losses inflicted on Poland during World War II. Arakadiusz Mularczyk, a lawmaker with the ruling Law and Justice party, said Wednesday the

The 72nd anniversary of the end of the European War — well known as ‘VE Day’ in Britain and the United States – passed mostly unnoticed today, but saw solemn commemorations in France where President-Elect Macron joined outgoing premier Hollande in a wreath laying ceremony.

RAF veteran Bryan Neely, who flew into battle against Hitler’s Luftwaffe over Europe during the Second World War, says diehard europhile Michael Heseltine “is not doing anyone any favours” by claiming that Brexit is a betrayal of Britain’s war dead.

The outsider-businessman senator from Georgia told Breitbart News he opposes attempts in Congress to create a Border Adjustment Tax because it is an unfair shifting of the tax burden onto regular consumers and disrupts America’s nascent economic recovery.