Guided walks are being offered at a former World War Two airfield to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings. RAF North Witham in Lincolnshire was home to US paratroopers who were some of the first ...

But rather than sort through these people, to do the hard, slow work of separating the vicious from the well-meaning, the ...

KB Smith served aboard the USS Satterlee and fired the first shots before the invasion, is the last surviving member of his ...

The last surviving resident of Tyneham, the Dorset "ghost village" evacuated for D-Day training, has died aged 100. Peter ...

Operation Avalanche was not going well. Body counts were quickly adding up and the allied invasion of Italy at Salerno during ...

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and later became a junior lieutenant for the U.S. Navy.

But life took a sharp turn when World War II came along, Mullins joined the army and ended up in the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles," where, at just 19, he served in the Allies' D-Day ...

Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th ...

A 100-year-old RAF veteran who will be leading VE Day processions on Monday has recalled being “gobsmacked” after bumping into his father by chance during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

A 100-year-old RAF veteran who will be leading VE Day processions on Monday has recalled being “gobsmacked” after bumping into his father by chance during the Allied invasion of Normandy ... After the ...