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Carrots Can’t Help You See in the Dark. Here’s How a World War II Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth
The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...
Blitz artefacts wanted for expanded exhibition
Sheffield Blitz Memorial Trust wants to create a larger, permanent exhibition of items from the air raids on the city centre ...
London Evening Standard22d
Imperial War Museum evacuated after visitor brings in 'WW2 ordnance'
A major London museum was evacuated after a visitor brought suspected WW2 “ordnance” into the site. The Imperial War Museum in Kennington, which houses a large number of WW2 objects ...
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London’s Blitz shelter tunnels to become a new tourist attraction
Tunnels built to shelter Londoners during World War Two bombing by Germany ... the tunnels into a memorial to the Blitz, which he says will be part museum, part exhibition and part entertainment ...