Occupation
Eric Dowdall – British Prisoner of War
A civilian from Jersey caught in the machinery of occupation. (AQOH-S002)
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The Ship That Ended World War II
From her launch in Brooklyn on 29 January 1944 to the formal Japanese surrender on board, the extraordinary story of USS Missouri. (AQOH-S001)
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A Good Place to Start
Dunkirk
The Letter That Never Arrived
A simple postal marking opens a story of June 1940. (AQOH-S003)
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Military Postal History
When a Letter Became a Photograph
How microfilm carried messages across oceans. (AQOH-S004)
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Unsolved Mystery
The German Letter from Antrim
A British soldier writes from Northern Ireland in 1944, but the letter inside is written in German. (AQOH-S005)
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Prisoner of War
The Missing Airman of Stalag Luft IV
An airmail cover and a newspaper clipping reveal the wartime journey of Staff Sergeant C. L. Hester, from the skies over Europe to captivity in one of Germany's prisoner-of-war camps. (AQOH-S006)
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Prisoner of War
The Pink Card of Capture
A small bilingual prisoner of war card records how Kurt Triebel, a German soldier from Thuringia, was turned from a captured man into an identified prisoner with a number, an address and a route back to his family. (AQOH-S007)
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History in Reverse
Most history begins with famous events.
aqoHISTORY begins with an object.
aqoHISTORY begins with an object.
A letter returned to sender. A postcard carried across an ocean. A prisoner of war form. A commemorative cover tucked away in a drawer for decades.
Each item survived for a reason, and each has a story to tell.
That is the fascination of aqoHISTORY: uncovering the hidden story within the overlooked object.