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Mosquito gets finishing touches video

After seven years of painstaking restoration the finishing touches are going on an old World War II bomber near Auckland.

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The ceremony was attended by representatives of about 70 countries

Hiroshima marks A-bomb anniversary

Japan marked the 67th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack with a ceremony Monday.

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Marseilles, France

Massive WWII bomb found buried in French port

It was discovered a week ago by construction workers who accidentally pierced the explosive with their back hoe.

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The SS Port Nicholson (Photo credit: the Allen Collection)

Treasure hunter finds billion dollar WWII wreck

A treasure hunter says he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II.

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Versailles Castle's main gate (AAP)

WW2 letter discovered in Louis XV desk

For 67 years, a message from Nazi-occupied France remained hidden in a secret drawer of a desk that belonged to France's 18th century King Louis XV.

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Christian Bale at a press conference after The Flowers of War Bejing premiere (AAP)

Christian Bale found Nanking Massacre film 'exhausting'

Christian Bale found filming his new movie The Flowers of War "exhausting" after witnessing his female co-stars portraying downtrodden prostitutes.

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A ceremony to award Lady Augusta Chiwy the 'United States Department of the Army, Civilian Award for Humanitarian Service', in Brussels (AAP)

WWII Belgian nurse honoured – 67 years late

A Belgian nurse who saved the lives of hundreds of American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge at the end of World War II has been given a US award for valour - 67 years late.

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A World War II bomb is hoisted up out of the Rhine riverbed following its successful defusion in Koblenz (Reuters)

WWII bomb succesfully defused in Germany video

A massive British World War II-era bomb that triggered the evacuation of about half of the 107,000 residents of Germany's western city of Koblenz has successfully been defused, authorities said.

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Adolf Hitler, 1934 (AAP)

Nazi-era skeletons show signs of violence

Hundreds of skeletons have been exhumed from a Nazi-era graveyard suspected of holding mentally or physically disabled victims of mass killings and many had bones apparently broken by hospital personnel.

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Far less people are killed in war, murdered or raped than at any point in history (file)

Violence at historic low

It seems as if violence is everywhere, but it's really on the run.

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A Spitfire and a Hurricane (Reuters file)

WW2 RAAF Spitfire wreckage discovered

The wreckage of a Royal Australian Air Force Spitfire and the skeletal remains of the pilot have been unearthed by amateur aviation historians.

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According to Project Riese, the complex was also intended to be used as a refuge for the leading members of the military

Hideaway for Hitler opened in Poland video

A Nazi tunnel in Poland built using forced labour has been opened for the first time since the Second World War.

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The main gate of former Nazi concentration camp of Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg (Reuters)

French Holocaust film to be shown in Iran

An epic French documentary about the Holocaust, dubbed into Farsi, is to be broadcast on a satellite channel in Iran as part of a campaign to promote understanding between Jews and Muslims and to fight Holocaust denial.

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Flags fly at half staff in observance of Pearl Harbor Day in Washington (Reuters file)

Man who notified world of Pearl Harbor attack dies

Ed Chlapowski, the man who notified the world that Pearl Harbor was being bombed by the Japanese, has died at 88.

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Sailor remembers Pearl Harbor attack 69 years ago

The morning of December 7, 1941, Yeoman 2nd Class Durrell Conner was wrapping Christmas presents aboard the USS California when he heard a commotion.

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The SNCF is bidding on a US$2.6 billion high-speed rail project that would connect Tampa and Orlando, but has run into resistance from Holocaust survivors there (Reuters)

French railroad regrets role in WWII deportations

France's state-run railroad has for the first time expressed "sorrow and regret" for its role in the deportation of Jews during World War II.

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Films tell story of WWII elephant rescue in Burma

British tea planter Gyles Mackrell organised one of the most remarkable rescue missions during World War II - by using elephants when nothing else would do.

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Eileen Nearne

Secret World War II heroine's file released

Buried deep in Eileen Nearne's secret World War II file, released today by the National Archives, is the secrecy agreement she signed on September 4, 1942. It was a commitment she honoured until her death last month at the age of 89.

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Bodies, mass graves found on Iwo Jima

Two mass graves that may hold the remains of up to 2,000 Japanese soldiers have been discovered on the island of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest and most iconic battlesites of World War II.

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Veterans march past St Paul's Cathedral as a World War II Lancaster bomber flies over head after a service to mark the 70th anniversary of the begining of the Blitz (Reuters)

Blitz tours of old London subway station

A London subway station used as a shelter during World War II bombing raids is opening to the public to mark the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.

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