A contractor, who at first thought he had discovered human remains, has found a Second World War plane propeller wrap...
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Painters, welders, turners from 80 years ago
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Between May 27 and June 4, 1940, 338,226 Allied troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk by military, merchant...
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The men, who were aged between around 30 and 50, were wearing uniforms bearing swastikas and the Nazi 'death's head' ...
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Lee Miller started her career as a model for American Vogue, appearing on its cover in March 1927. But she turned to ...
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Witold Pilecki smuggled himself into Auschwitz using fake identity documents in September 1940, just four months afte...
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Peter Thomas, who died aged 87 in 2008, served as Welsh Secretary under Edward Heath between 1970 and 1974. Above lef...
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Captain Harry Marshall marched his men over rugged terrain in Burma to reach the retreating Japanese during the 1944 ...
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Lawrence Churcher died earlier this month at a care home in Fareham, Hampshire, just days short of his 103rd birthday...
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Between 1949 and 1960, more than two million men aged between 17 and 21 were conscripted into the armed forces as par...
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Julia Turing, who changed her surname from Schwinghamer to match the genius's, took 17 of his belongings when she vis...
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The handwritten note was sent by Flight Officer Paul Bunn to the mother of flight engineer Sergeant Douglas Timms (pi...
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The wall, which lay for decades beneath Emperor House in Vine Street, north of the Tower of London, is now part of a ...
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Grade-II listed Poundon House, in Buckinghamshire, was requisitioned by the Government in 1940 and became a hub for t...
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Sir Nicholas Winton's rescue of nearly 700 mostly Jewish children from near certain death in the Holocaust was famous...
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Scenes depicting the celebrations after Japan's surrender and the US victory in the Second World War show Oppenheimer...
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Tonight, the latest episode of hit TV series Secrets of the London Underground reveals illustrations at the station t...
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The new statue of General Władysław Sikorski was unveiled on Tuesday at Newark Cemetery in Nottinghamshire, where he ...
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The image, which was taken in July 1939, shows sisters Inge and Ruth Adamecz, then five and 10, and Hanna Cohn, also ...
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General Władysław Sikorski died along with his daughter on July 4, 1943, when the plane they were travelling in crash...
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Sergeant Frank Ashleigh took part in the largest airborne assault in history in September 1944. After being captured,...
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The 80m-long wreck was found near Quequén, a port in central Argentina, by the Eslabón Perdido (Missing Link) researc...
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The harrowing images, taken on June 14, 1940, show 728 Poles being herded down streets from a prison in the city of T...
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Bank clerk Eric Roberts spent the Second World War posing as a Gestapo agent. His daughter Crista McDonald told a rec...
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Malcolm Pleydell (centre) was the first ever doctor to join the SAS after its formation by Lieutenant-David Stirling ...
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Hundreds of the ghostly symbols exist on streets in London, Liverpool, Norwich and other major towns and cities. Abov...
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Joe Cattini, from Southampton, took part in one of the first waves of the Normandy landings in June 1944, an operatio...
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King Harald V of Norway is the closest European monarch to the British Royal family: he is a second cousin to the lat...
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The photographs appear in a unique photo album set for auction as part of a military collection relating to Lance Cor...
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The Dambusters raid, launched 80 years ago today, dealt a devastating blow to Nazi Germany's industrial heartland at ...
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The January eruption of the Tonga volcano has been confirmed as the largest explosion ever recorded in the atmosphere...
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Channel 4 ancestry show My Grandparents’ War returns for season 2 with Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington whose pate...
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Petersen rose to prominence as a director of action adventure films spanning war, pandemic and ocean-set disasters
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Russia’s most important holiday has taken on added significance this year following Putin’s brutal and bloody invasio...
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Serving members of both the British and Italian military were present at the service to pay their respects
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Serving members of both the British and Italian military were present at the service to pay their respects
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Russia stages huge Victory Day military parades overseen by Vladimir Putin, despite continuing coronavirus epidemic.
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Zinaida Korneva, a charming 97-year-old Russian veteran of World War II, has a message for her American comrades.
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A woman was accidentally shot by her 8-year-old child at a baseball game in Tennessee on Tuesday evening, police said.
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