Before the war had started, Britain had a small professional army, sacrificing manpower for superior mobility and technology ...

A military medal which was awarded to a Cumbrian racing pigeon who assisted the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War has been sold at auction and will return to his local area.

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

Darby’s Rangers went missing in action during World War II, he has been accounted for and will be laid to rest.

In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended to every continent on Earth. As such, ...

Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British ...

In 1943, when Subhas Chandra Bose took over the INA, a military unit under the Japanese made up of Indian soldiers captured ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal ...

Al Mar and Tops collaborated to revitalize a cutting tool designed for some of the most arduous military training in the ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with ...

The Avro Lancaster was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, but was it the best? When one thinks of the Royal ...

PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...