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For Sale: Cigar Churchill Smoked In Bermuda

A cigar that Winston Churchill smoked during a Cold War conference in Bermuda up for sale at PFC Auctions in Guernsey, with reports suggesting that it may fetch up to £3,000 [$4,900]. The Bermuda meeting was held in December 1953, with Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and French Premier Joseph Laniel... Read more of this article

Close Encounters Of The Bermuda Kind

A 1953 flying saucer alert in Bermuda when US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and French Premier Joseph Laniel were preparing to meet at the Mid Ocean Club was laughed off by security personnel — who said any visiting aliens would be turned away from the exclusive Tucker’s Town property if they... Read more of this article

Winston Churchill’s 1942 Flying Bermuda Visit

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s return to the UK from Bermuda aboard Boeing flying boat in January, 1942 — the first transatlantic air trip by a world leader — fired the imaginations not only of his devoted countrymen but of the entire democratic world. People reading of his long flight from Bermuda and safe landing at... Read more of this article

Exhibit Fetes Island’s Presidential Ties

The opening reception for the US Consulate photographic exhibit “Between Friends: 65 Years of Bermudian-American Diplomatic Relations” took place last night [Mar 1.] at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art in the Botanical Gardens. The exhibit, which will run through March 14, consists of 26 photographs of US presidential visits to Bermuda, beginning... Read more of this article

1940s Video: American Sailors in Bermuda

As Bermuda celebrates Remembrance Day today [Nov 11] the vintage newsreel below shows American sailors on the island at a time when British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called us a “vital pillar in the bridge” connecting Britain and the US during the 1939-45 Second World War. During World War Two the island was considered an important... Read more of this article