Top Secret WWII Files Released: Documents on US Marines’ Operations in Northern Ireland To Go in New Derry Museum

Posted by admin on Nov 4, 2011

Top secret files detailing the presence of US Marines in Londonderry during the Second World War have been declassified and are to return to the city. More than 5,000 US government documents are to be stored in a new museum in the Beech Hill House Hotel as part of a new project detailing the history of the Marines.

Rural Development Minister, Michelle O’Neill, yesterday announced £94,000 for the project from the Rural Development Programme during a visit to the hotel in Ardmore. The final quarter of the funding will be donated by the Beech Hill US Navy Marine Corps Friendship Association and the owners of the historic hotel.

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