Tune into BBC on Friday evening at 9pm for ‘Britain’s Greatest Generation’ – a four-part series by Testimony Films celebrating the last survivors of the Second World War and their achievement in helping to win the war.

Friday’s episode features Fergus ‘Gus’ Anckorn (pictured), who was captured by the Japanese and held as a Far East POW for over three and a half years. His biography, Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW tells his moving story.

More information about Britain’s Greatest Generation and, and links to previous episodes on iPlayer are available here.

Between 24-26 May 2015, all three Cunard ships will call at Liverpool to salute a city that will be forever part of Cunard’s history. At 12 noon on 25 May, all three Queens will meet on the Mersey for the first time.

You can read more about Liverpool’s significance for Cunard in Liverpool in the Great War. Warrior Queens describes the transformations of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth into troopships during the Second World War. The Queens are also featured in Cruise Ships and Giants of the Seas.

Full details of anniversary celebrations are available via Cunard.co.uk including anniversary news and updates, videos and photo gallery.

24 May 1941 – the sinking of HMS Hood

The battlecruiser HMS Hood is one of the great warships of history. Unmatched for beauty and charisma, unequalled for size, for 20 years she was the glory ship of the Royal Navy, flying the flag across the world in the twilight years of the British Empire.

On 24 May 1941, she was sunk by the Bismarck during the Battle of Denmark Strait. Following an order from Prime Minister Winston Churchill to ‘Sink The Bismarck!’ (free article available here), the German battleship was pursued and destroyed by the Royal Navy only days later on 27 May.

This free article by Bruce Taylor – available to read now from Warfare Magazine – tells the tragic story of Hood’s final day.