Ken Arkell, 98, a former Navy serviceman who trained for the boats but never got to board one, told the BBC it was a "wonderful" opportunity. Describing the experience afterwards, in which the ...

One of the organisers behind Guernsey's Liberation Day cavalcade has said she plans to keep the tradition alive well into the future. Laura Dyer, 33, said she was "born into" the Guernsey Military ...

The BBC and World War Two The BBC and World War Two When the Blitz began in the early-autumn of 1940, the BBC came under aerial attack like the rest of the country. Indeed, as newly-released ...

They have now been shared with the BBC as part of celebrations to mark 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany, and tell the story of the near-six year conflict at home and abroad through the ...

A man evacuated at the start of World War Two is hoping to make contact with fellow evacuees in memory of VE day. Albert 'Bert' Butterfield, 92, left London two days before Britain declared war on ...

A soldier's remarkable war story, from the evacuation of Dunkirk to his escape from a prisoner of war camp and time with the Italian Resistance, is being shared in a recording he made for his ...

Among the guests was Harry Winter, a 103-year-old RAF veteran. He told the BBC he was shot down over Germany in January 1945 and held as a prisoner of war until VE Day five months later.

Eighty miles from Moscow, a park echoes to the sound of explosions and gunfire. As plumes of thick grey smoke rise into the air, the Red Army storms across a bridge and battles for control of a ...

World War Two evacuees have told BBC South West about their experiences ... evacuee Radio Cornwall talks to some of those who spent WW2 in the county. Listen on Sounds She added many were homesick ...

Mr Rose - a recipient of France's highest award - the French Legion of Honour - was filmed meeting comedian and war history enthusiast Al Murray ahead of the show's VE Day 80 Special on BBC One on ...

In the last months of World War Two, aircrews from an Essex airfield were responsible for dropping secret agents and supplies into enemy occupied territory. The men of 295 and 570 Squadrons, based ...

A World War Two Spitfire has been forced to make an emergency landing in Kent after losing power. Spitfire MJ627 came down in a field on Lower Wall Road, West Hythe, on Saturday evening, said its ...