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Children at a primary school in Leicester have said they were "amazed" to receive a letter from a living World War Two veteran. The youngsters at Forest Lodge Academy in New Parks received the ...

Eighty years ago during World War Two, a Spanish artist found himself with an unlikely job, being paid by the British government to draw satirical cartoons of the enemy, from a quiet ...

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.

War-winning radar technology was applied to many thousands of aircraft at RAF Defford, near Croome Court, between Worcester and Pershore. Show more War-winning radar technology was applied to many ...

I'm buying it for sentimental reasons,” he told BBC News NI. When the 74-year-old ... Nathalie attributes her passion for WW2 to her grandfather. "My grandad was in the war, he had to do forced ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year is the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2 and will see world leaders, including China's Xi Jinping, in Russia for the event. Putin has called for a three-day ceasefire from 8 May ...

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 ...

The sons of two World War Two soldiers who survived recapture after the legendary Great Escape are to cycle the 120-mile distance their fathers were forced to march. Stuart Green and Roger ...

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 ...