The fund raising to build a memorial to the Portuguese sailors who saved hundreds of lives during World War II has started.  The promoter ...

This note is what the Americans call a "Short Snorter" and shows the signatures of the members of the team that in 1943/44 came to...

On the afternoon of July 13, 1941 Sergeant-airman of the Royal Air Force, William Bernard Oakes, 21, died at the controls of a Welli...

We shared a common passion: the planes of World War II. There was, however, a fundamental difference. I only have my in the air, he had r...

Ronald Weber is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. He has publishe...

In 1940 the Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, was suddenly confronted with thousands of persons asking for a v...

On December 31, 1943 Don Howell was the navigator of Lockheed Hudson FK761 on the way from England to Egypt. Over the Bay of Biscay the...