Sister Denise Bergon heroically sheltered 83 Jewish children during WWII at Notre Dame de Massip convent in France, saving the children from Nazi persecution.

The new UK SERE school badge. Featuring elements from our World War Two predecessors. Made by many masters.

#OTD 2019: My book ‘The Walls Have Ears’ is #1 in UK Politics, surpassing the memoirs of ex-Prime Minister David Cameron.

Thank you to everyone who entered to win signed copies of my new book "Why I Became an X Troop Commando"! The competition is now closed and I'll be announcing winners on Monday 9th September! Yale University Press London📚

Projected on a building in Arnhem....stunning! Al Murray - DKMS.ORG.UK 🇺🇦 you seen this yet? #arnhem

UK SERE adapts MI9’s IS9(WEA) patch. For more on MI9: 👉MI9 Escape & Evasion 1939-1945 by MRD Foot & JM Langley 👉MI9 A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by Helen Fry | WWII Historian 👉Saturday at MI9 by Airey Neave Tiny 🧙🧵👇 x.com/curatoremma/st…

Padre Ruffino Nicacci, a Franciscan priest in Assisi, Italy, helped hide approximately 100 Jews during WWII by providing sanctuary in monasteries and convents around his hometown, along with false identity papers. He is 'Righteous Among the Nations'.

#OnThisDay in 2023, the pioneering work of engineer Tommy Flowers was recognised with an @englishheritage blue plaque 🔵 Flowers and his team designed COLOSSUS at Dollis Hill, which was later used to break German cipher systems at Bletchley Park in #WWII.

The heroes who sabotaged the Nazi bomb. Opportunity of a lifetime to walk in their footsteps, with SOE_Expeditions Their full incredible story is told in my book, Hunting The Nazi Bomb: geni.us/DamienLewisBoo…

Next Friday, 13 September, we will remember #NoorInayatKhan on her 80th death anniversary. Do join us at #NoorMemorial #GordonSquare #Bloomsbury Everyone is welcome. Nearest tube: Euston Square 3.00 p.m #LestWeForget #WWII #SOE #WAAF

Pastor André Trocmé addressing the congregants in his church, 30th August 1942: "These people came here for help and for shelter. I am their shepherd. A shepherd does not forsake his flock. I do not know what a Jew is. I know only human beings." Pictured with his wife, Magda.

In his Bond novels, Ian Fleming included many subtle nods to his days in NID and his beloved 30 AU. In #Thunderball human torpedoes are released from the hull of a ship in the same way Italian troops had done during #WW2. 30 Commando hunted these torpedoes as a priority in

“So this thing doubles up as a submarine, you say?”

🇧🇪 🇵🇱 6 September 1944 The town of Ypres is liberated on this day eighty years ago by the Belgian 10th Regiment Jagers Te Paard and units of the 1st Polish Armored Division. In the town, a fireman named Jozef Arfeuille dusts off a bugle last used on 19 May 1940, the day before

Hugh Dowding, head of Fighter Command: "We have pilots fighting from first light 'til dusk. These men are not immortal- they are exhausted."

Do you have a war hero in your family?

Remembering Major Gilbert Maurice Norman of the Special Operations Executive, murdered by the Nazis 80 years ago today at the Mauthausen concentration camp. He was 29 years old. Operating in occupied France since November 1942, his luck ran out in June 1943 when he picked up by

Helen Fry | WWII Historian I’m sure he would want to be called a ‘hero’ but my Gt Uncle Edward ‘Jack’ Woodhead was in our eyes. Awarded the DSM as Coxswain of HMS Gulzar he rescued under gunfire the last British troops from Calais in 1940. Days later rescuing 500 from Dunkirk.