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 ...
(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 ...
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) — ...
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 ...
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 ...
While the city was reduced to ashes, Hisako Aihara and her family managed to evacuate in time thanks to a tipoff from a worker at a military facility.
Norway said Friday it wants to reintroduce mandatory construction of air raid shelters in new buildings, one of around 100 proposals aimed at boosting preparedness in case of war. The Barron's news ...