Search results found for: "WO 416" Records and researchProject WO 416: Private enterpriseTuesday 24 March 2020The night of 24-25 March 2020 marks the 76th anniversary of the real Great Escape...Records and researchThe forger, the map-maker and the scrounger – the truth behind characters in The Great EscapeWednesday 10 July 2024How much of the Hollywood film was based on real people?...Records and researchInternational Volunteer Day 2023: The work that inspired Great EscapesTuesday 5 December 2023International Volunteer Day is the perfect time to celebrate the efforts that inspired our...Records and researchMen of Harlech: The Secret CommandosThursday 3 August 2023A look at X Troop, formed of German-speaking, mostly Jewish refugees...Records and researchRemembering the men of Bomber Command who didn’t make it homeTuesday 20 June 2023Who officially researched the fate of missing RAF personnel during the Second World War?...Records and researchLeaving the Italian prisoner of war camp FontanellatoWednesday 7 June 2023How prisoners of war escaped from Italy following the Italian armistice of September 1943....Behind the scenes‘For you, my friend, the war is over’: cataloguing 200,000 prisoner of war recordsMonday 13 March 2023National Archives volunteers have completed a major project to catalogue the personnel cards of...Records and researchSurviving the stalagWednesday 1 June 2022Any soldier, airman or sailor captured by the Germans during the Second World War...Records and researchOne positive outcome from a terrible disasterThursday 7 April 2022This is the latest in a series of blogs to promote the work of...Records and researchThe Battles of Tobruk, 1941-42 (Part two)Monday 31 January 2022As the siege came to an end the hospital ship Gloucestershire began making trips...Archives and archivistsCatalogue Week 2021: Day FourThursday 25 November 2021On day four of Catalogue Week 2021 the focus is on the First and...Records and researchLeonard Orpin: A tale of two warsThursday 11 November 2021Since 2017 a team of volunteers at The National Archives has been devoting its... 1 2 »