Christmas 1943, a badly shot up B-17 struggled to stay in the air, it was the first mission for the 21-year-old pilot, half ...

On a moonlit night over occupied Europe, a returning Vickers Wellington limped home after a successful raid when a German ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

History also shows that many of the fanciful engineering ideas for Greenland failed because they misjudged the island’s harsh ...

"Before charging headlong into this icy island again, the U.S. would be remiss not to learn from past failures," argues an ...

The Battle of Kasserine Pass was America's first major fight against the European Axis in World War II. It turned into one of ...

One of the longest surviving World War Two veterans in Guernsey has died at the age of 104. John Barnes was born in London ...

RAF hero Albert served with No. 10 Squadron and was part of the fabled Bomber Command, flying 37 night-time raids over ...

A World War Two veteran who fought in Normandy as a teenager before becoming a prisoner of war has died at the age of 100, a charity said. Douglas Baldwin, from Caddington, Bedfordshire, served with ...

A Paston woman who worked for the Army during WWII and narrowly escaped a bomb being dropped near her garden has celebrated ...

Some 67 years ago remains were located in a gun turret in the immediate vicinity of the recent recovery site and buried as ...

The Air Force’s most powerful stealth fighter will soar over New Zealand for the first time during the annual Warbirds Over ...