World War II

Bobby Gurney and Hughie Gallagher collect money for the Spitfire Fund during a charity football match in Sunderland.

Ingenious Sunderland ships crews had amazing ways of surviving the war

Bob and Sylvia Berston who lived through bomb blasts in 1940s Sunderland.

'A German bomb shattered our windows, but my sister slept through it'

City pupils travel back in time to wartime Sunderland

Members of the public fill The Mall before a flypast during the Queen's Birthday Parade, the Trooping the Colour, as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in London in June 2022 (Photo: DANIEL LEAL/POOL/AFP/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sunderland head coach Régis Le Bris at Loftus Road for the game against QPR

Le Bris handed fresh selection worry plus QPR's lovely gesture to Cats

The air raids on Sunderland brought death and destruction to the town in 1942.

Sunderland man who walked from a bomb blast which wrecked his house

The search is under way to find the family of Sgt Potts whose medals were awarded posthumously.

Search to reunite medals with relatives of Sunderland war hero

Sunderland's Casualty Service personnel practising their skills 85 years ago.

Sunderland in 1939, when Wearside readied for war

The scenes in Tatham Street and Hendon Valley Road in October 1942.

14 dead on a dark Sunderland day in October 1942

WW2 bomb explodes on airport taxiway.

Watch: Buried WW2 bomb explodes on airport taxiway

Workers line up to store 3,500 gas masks under Monkwearmouth Hospital.

When Sunderland prepared for war: Poignant photo from 1938

Kate Winslet takes on the role of renowned WWII photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller in the biopic "Lee," our in UK cinemas from this week.

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Second World War-era Avro Lancaster Bomber flies over lake.

Watch: Second World War-era Avro Lancaster Bomber flies over lake

The 1940s bomb which was still creating drama in Sunderland 62 years later.

The 1940 drama which saw a Nazi plane crash in Sunderland

1939: The year when Sunderland prepared for war by building air raid shelters.

Sunderland prepares for war: Life in the dark days of 1939

They spent the war in Japanese camps and were finally back home in Sunderland as the end of 1945 approached.

War was over: But these Sunderland men didn't get home until Christmas

The Second World War ended on August 15 in 1945.

Chris Cordner

The scene of destruction on Wearside after the Battle of Britain started in 1940.

The air raids which devastated Sunderland, 84 years ago this month

U776 - the German submarine which came to Sunderland.

When a German U-boat came to Sunderland in 1945

Ron Lawson has shared his memories of growing up in Sunderland during the war years.

'I watched the bombs light up the sky' - one man's war memories

Commander John Farrow with his son Malcolm.

Washington man's tribute to D-Day hero dad who bombed German positions

How D-Day unfolded in Normandy, left, and on the streets of Sunderland, right.

The Sunderland tank driver who made headlines on D-Day

Sunderland raised an incredible amount of money to support the war effort.

Saluting the Sunderland people who raised £1.2m in time for D-Day

Maps and planning documents detailing top-secret plans were donated to House on the Hill museum.

Watch: Top secret D-Day documents from Normandy found in old car boot

Inside the secret underground bunker

Watch: Inside top secret underground WWII bunker hidden in plain sight

History in the making, as reported in the Sunderland Echo in June 1944.

Search for stories of Sunderland's D-Day heroes

Derek Holcroft and his latest Sunderland tale - this time of a Millfield man who became the bodyguard of Field Marshall Montgomery.

The Sunderland man who was Field Marshall Montgomery's bodyguard

Eighty years on - Alan Mitcheson still pays tribute to Cyril Barton, the man whose plane he saw crash in Ryhope.

The Sunderland man who has paid tribute to a war hero for 80 years

'I saw it all from my bedroom window'

Chris Cordner

The story of a Sunderland man who helped to change history.

The Sunderland genius who helped to develop radar

The women of Sunderland's shipyards pictured during the Second World War.

The real-life shipyard girls of Sunderland

The civic reception for the prisoners who were rescued from the Altmark.

The Sunderland men who were rescued from an Atlantic prisoner ship

The crew of HMS Norfolk, back home after the historic battle with the German battleship Scharnhorst.

The Sunderland sailors who served during an epic sea battle

Wearside children being evacuated 85 years ago.

Nine pictures of Sunderland children being evacuated during WWII

Derwent Street in two different eras - one of 11 Sunderland locations to feature in our film.

Now and then: 11 Sunderland streets as they look today and decades ago

An in-depth look at the Bridge Street offices - the Echo's home until 1976.

Nine pictures from the Sunderland Echo in its Bridge Street days

Sunderland preparing for war in September 1939.

When Wearside prepared for the dark days of war

World War 2 bunker and staple of Winston Churchill’s ‘chain home’ radar given stunning holiday-home makeover

World War II bunker transformed into coastal holiday home

War was over and this is how Sunderland celebrated in 1945

Sunderland's dark years were at an end: VJ Day on film

Somehow, the people of Wearside carried on.

Nine harrowing scenes of life under the Blitz and Battle of Britain

A new book just released pays tribute to heroes from Sunderland.

A new film tribute to Sunderland heroes

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