The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day as it remembers its heroic crew and ...

It was the day when peace broke out across Europe, when a war-weary country threw off the shackles of fear on their great day ...

Flight Lieutenant Austin Hallett MBE was praised for his efforts during WW2, including the Flying Cross, Air Force Cross and ...

Dennis Bishop, 99, recalls vividly the moment he heard that the war was over and that peace was possible. 80 years on, he ...

And without the contribution of Empire and Commonwealth countries, final victory against Germany and Japan might never have ...

On April 21, 1945, near the village of Oberhinkofen, Bavaria, the last B-24 Liberator of the Eighth Air Force was shot down ...

Anzac Day has been particularly poignant for one Gisborne man, after learning just weeks ago that his uncle's World War II ...

The aircraft carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of Midway. NOAA Ocean Exploration video screengrab A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific ...

Roy Daines, who grew up in the fields around Halstead and Stisted, was born with a tuberculosis valve of the heart and a slit in his lung, so his mother was told he would not live long. But for 102 ...

In WWII, as it was in WWI, the bodies of many of those who ... On Panel 60 is the name of Norman Frederick Hettrick of Port Elgin. He was the co-pilot of a Wellington Bomber that was shot down while ...

This included massive tanks, humongous artillery, and the designs for a gargantuan bomber. The Nazis were also ... military hardware developed during WWII, the Horten H.XVIII only exists in ...

‘I escaped the Nazis then fixed Lancaster Bombers for the RAF. Eighty years on, I have my medal’ Ruth Klauber, 101, is recognised for her work as a flight mechanic during the war ...