Neil Paterson: My memories of the Banff-born footballer and war hero who won...
His life sounds like the screenplay of a Hollywood movie - which is perhaps appropriate when you consider that Neil Paterson was one of the few Scots to win an Academy Award for his work.
View ArticleThe Aberdeen Blitz of 1943 left the city in ruins and death all around
The night of the Aberdeen Blitz wreaked a terrible price for all those who lost loved ones and had their homes destroyed.
View Article‘Is this England?’: When a Nazi plane packed with bombs crashed near Fraserburgh
Windyheads Farm wasn't on many maps and certainly not the ones the Germans were using in 1940.
View ArticleThe Spirit Of Banffshire: Book rediscovers region’s history from trains to...
Banffshire is famous for its traditional fishing villages and rugged coastline, stretching from the Moray Firth to the Cairngorms.
View ArticleWidow, 98, battles with Ministry of Defence over husband’s stolen WW2 medals
A 98-year-old widow from Orkney is pleading with defence chiefs to replace her husband’s World War Two service medals, nearly 70 years after they were stolen in east Africa.
View Article‘She deserves them’: Press and Journal readers offer to replace widow’s...
Kind-hearted readers offered to purchase or replace a pair of stolen war medals after reading a plea from an Orkney widow – but the 98-year-old remains determined to take on the UK’s defence chiefs.
View ArticleFamily finally gains chance to honour Moray airman Alastair Taylor who died...
Alastair Taylor waved happily to his mother, Sarah, at Kirkhill Farm in Alves, as he was flying over the property on a return trip to Lincoln from RAF Kinloss.
View ArticleAlistair MacLean’s Navy service took him from HMS Royalist to HMS Ulysses
He was the best-selling Scottish author who grew up in the north of Scotland and spoke Gaelic as his first language.
View ArticleHalf crown jewel: Why 95-year-old Anne wants to return precious coin to...
It was a meeting between two youngsters who had been on opposite sides of the great divide during the ferocious fighting in the Second World War.
View ArticleWings of tragedy: Lady MacRobert took the fight back to the enemy after...
There was no shortage of sacrifice as men and women took to the air in the early part of the 20th century.
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View ArticleThe Aberdeen Blitz left a permanent mark on many families in April 80 years ago
Aberdeen was devastated and more than 120 people were killed on the worst night of the Second World War in the north-east in 1943.
View ArticleRow erupts as Nazi flag displayed at Buckie Second World War event
The historical exhibition had been billed as a "celebration through the years".
View ArticleOn This Day 1944: P&J war correspondent among first to enter liberated Paris
'I soon knew what it was to feel like a king' wrote Matthew Halton, describing the ecstatic scenes that afternoon in the French capital.
View ArticleAberdeen’s Juliette Paton recalls tragic wartime stories of her dad and his...
They were the Burney boys: one survived imprisonment in Buchenwald, the other died in a submarine disaster during the Second World War.
View ArticleBlackdog Beach: Dunes give up their secrets to reveal lost WWII pillbox
Gayle checks out a hidden Second World War bunker that recently resurfaced – and learns of other discoveries on a north-east beach.
View ArticleRecalling the gallantry of the Gordon Highlanders at Anzio 80 years ago
The Scottish troops endured terrible privations and heavy loss of life, but proved their mettle in what was a pivotal campaign in Italy.
View ArticleWhy Remembrance Day still matters even as war rages in Ukraine and the Middle...
Very few of those who fought in the Second World War are still alive, but what do young people think about wearing poppies and remembering sacrifice?
View Article275 years of war & remembrance in the north and north-east
For 275 years, The Press and Journal has covered stories of conflicts and war from local perspectives.
View ArticleHMT Rohna: Orcadian survivor’s daughter on quest for truth behind WW2 naval...
John Sclater was among the survivors of the HMT Rohna tragedy which claimed 1,100 plus lives in 1943, and his daughter has delved deep into a decades-old military scandal.
View ArticleDaughters of Orkney HMT Rohna survivor fly to America for screening of film...
The sinking of HMT Rohna claimed more than 1,000 lives in November 1943, but Orkney's John Sclater was among the survivors.
View ArticleThe hidden fog house waterfall and 6 other secrets of Bennachie
A New Year's Day trip to Bennachie to blow away the cobwebs is an annual pilgrimage for many in the Garioch, but there is much to discover about this ancient hill including the secret fog house waterfall.
View ArticlePeril in Portknockie: Remembering when primary school was attacked by Nazi...
Bert Ness had been evacuated from Edinburgh to the safety of the north-east of Scotland during the Second World War. But the perils of war came to Portknockie when a German plane sprayed the village...
View ArticleExploring abandoned decoy airfield in Rora Moss near Peterhead
Gayle heads to remote Rora Moss in search of an abandoned Second World War decoy airfield.
View Article‘I should have died in Auschwitz too’: The harrowing story of Inverness...
Watch Kathy's moving testimony of being smuggled to safety while losing her family in the Holocaust.
View ArticleWar in Europe: The long-forgotten suffering of north-east men in Greek prison...
North-east men were among the POWs captured trying to oust the Nazis from the Balkans, and had harrowing tales to tell.
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