WW2 ancestors

Hawker Hurricanes flying in formation during the Battle of Britain in 1940

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Lancaster bomber crew

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Second World War love letters returned to family by WDYTYA? reader

Retrieving Letters

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British prisoners at Dunkirk.

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A Lovell & Jack Pegg as POWs

Sons of PoWs create online map commemorating the Lamsdorf Long March

Field Marshal Lord Montgomery

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Second World War Air Force records indexed for the first time

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Second World War RAF ancestors

Winston Churchill 1939 register

Ancestry adds 1939 Register to its collections

Arriving Home

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British actor Alec Guinness (1914 - 2000) with his fiance Merula Salaman 19th May 1938. They met while both working for John Gielgud's stage company at the Queen's Theatre in London. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Discover your past

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