Second World War
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Campaigners continue mission to turn former Second World War site into a military museum
The dark concrete chambers of a Second World War bunker on the outskirts of Darlington
The strange tale of how Durham Cathedral was saved from the Luftwaffe by the mist – and St Cuthbert
The V for Victory painted on VE Day that can still be seen in a North Yorkshire village today
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Museum staff work on letters from soldiers
Second World War propeller returns to site of sacrifice
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Andrew Mynarski - the airman who covered in flames fought to save his friend's life aboard their stricken bomber
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Buried in a Darlington cemetery, the bodies of five airmen pulled from a fiery wreckage in 1942
The day the Luftwaffe targeted Easington Colliery
March of steel monsters at the Somme
Eyes that have seen the horrors of Belsen and changed a man forever
Plaque in Darlington church recalls town's victims
Medal for seaman killed so close to safe return after war
War hero pilot's Durham grave hidden and unloved
Survivors mark 70th anniversary of Nazi bombing raid that devastated mining community
The Luft gangster and the wedding ring puzzle
Invitation to join memorial service for heroic Second World War pilot
My letter from Mrs Churchill
First glimpse of DLI memorial statue
Hundreds of mortars are found buried in woodland
Survivors pay tribute to sacrifice of airmen
A time and a place
Amazing response to DLI appeal
Old soldiers to raise funds for memorial
The soldiers’ tale
Homefront cooking
Bayonets fixed for city tribute
In memory of heroes
Day the U-boat Killer was lost
The Black Thursday battle for the North-East's skies
War hero brother I never had the chance to meet
Ex-soldier’s diaries tell of Himmler suicide
World war icon aims to reach for skies – again
Service honours the memory of Canadian air force heroes
Pile Hitler!
Diaries of the ‘Secret War’
Back in touch – 67 years after wartime heroics
Medal honour for wartime code-breaker
A region remembers
Land girl Dorothy off to meet the Queen
Tributes are paid to one of area’s last ‘Tail-end Charlies’
Back to where I escaped the war