Grumman Wildcat JV482 came down in Portmore Lough, Co. Antrim on 24th December 1944. On board, Pilot Peter Lock was suited and booted for Christmas dinner.
On Tuesday 2nd January 1940, shells fell on Bangor, Co. Down. The unexpected source of the bombs was the R.F.A. Serbol, training in the mouth of Belfast Lough.
The night of 16th-17th December 1943 was known as "Black Thursday" among those of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command including men from Northern Ireland.
Around 10,000 European Jewish children arrived in the United Kingdom just before the outbreak of World War Two on what became known as the Kindertransport.
The Belfast Jewish Community was relatively small before the outbreak of World War Two. Nonetheless, they provided invaluable help to refugees from Europe.
Ruth Wilson stars in a new BBC drama. The filming locations of Mrs. Wilson depict 1940s and 1960s London and India but are actually Northern Irish towns.
Towards the end of the Second World War, there were many German Prisoners of War in Northern Ireland in camps and military hospitals across the country.
In June 1940, with the threat of German invasion of Ireland seeming possible, 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry arrived in Ulster to train and patrol the border.
