Blitz survivor remembers 'air foul with cordite'

A 97-year-old man has told how his family's air-raid shelter caved in on the night of the Coventry Blitz, leaving them buried ...
Courthouse News Service

Norway wants to build new air shelters in case of war

Shop from the 1930s, which contained the Furulund Bunker around World War II. Ullern district, Oslo. (Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) OSLO (AFP) — ...
Yahoo

Homeowner Finds World War II Bomb Shelter Under a Slab In Her Backyard

A homeowner in Kent, England recently made the startling discovery of a 160-foot, World War II-era air raid shelter under a concrete slab in her back garden. And she's since documented the artifact on ...
Wall Street Journal

Germany Shut Down Thousands of Air-Raid Shelters. It Needs New Ones Fast.

BERLIN—Less than 20 years ago, Germany decided the risk of a military attack on its territory was so low that it decommissioned the country’s last air-raid bunkers. Today, it is scrambling to roll ...
KEYT

Mussolini’s wartime bunker opens to the public in Rome

(CNN) — June, 1940. Italy enters World War II, and Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini promptly sets about constructing air raid shelters for himself at Villa Torlonia, his grand Rome residence since ...
The Daily Telegraph

Babinda’s air raid shelter toilets set to see town’s business blow up

ONE Queensland town is banking on it’s only main street public toilet becoming its number one or maybe even number two tourist attraction. The 73-year-old building was originally built as an air raid ...